The air this past month in China and in particular, the Yangtze River Delta area (which includes Shanghai, Suzhou, Wuxi and Nanjing) has been incredibly bad. The worst in 50 years. I remember 2 weeks ago I couldn’t see the top of my apartment building in Changning district. While the air pollution is actually created outside of the city (sometimes by coal-fueled power plants, others from farmers burning left over crops), it has lingered over the eastern coast creating misery for millions. For a real-time view of the air quality indices in China visit AQICN.
- Hunting for U.S. arms tech, China taps legion of amateurs from Reuters (how many NSA backdoors are being used by other hackers/gov’ts?)
- “My department head sees 80 patients in a morning and prescribes Rmb100,000 worth of drugs. She definitely takes commissions.” from drug companies from China Medical News (believable)
- Executive Can’t Escape Smog in Beijing-to-Shanghai Move from Bloomberg
- Ctrip to Sina Raise Record War Chest on Big Three Deal Spree from Bloomberg
- China Billionaires Set to Shake Up Wireless Market from Bloomberg
- PBOC Adds Funds to Banks Amid Worst Cash Crunch Since June from Bloomberg
- Foreign English teacher in Guangzhou jailed for 8 months for stealing from Nanfang (not a big surprise)
- Bitcoin Futures Trading Suspects Arrested In China from China Tech News
- In China, a Dynamite Solution to Land Shortages from The Wall Street Journal
- Gome, Sanyo Sign Exclusive Strategic Electronics Retail Agreement from China Tech News
- China’s brain drain may be world’s worst from China Daily
- Brain drain: a headache for India and China from The Age
- Smog Darkens Shanghai’s Prospects for Becoming a Global Financial Center from The Wall Street Journal (maybe, certainly motivated me not to stay)
- U.S. Charges Chinese Nationals in Trade Secrets Cases from The Wall Street Journal
- Why Are the Chinese Scared of American Corn? from Bloomberg (because most people are educated to believe GMO will turn you into a cancerous zombie)
- China rejects 30 pct of corn shipped in from U.S. this year from Reuters
- Lang Lang on the Keys to Success from The Wall Street Journa (huge consumption of Western culture, great for everyone)
- Can China’s E-Commerce Giants Succeed Abroad? from The Wall Street Journal (if they can reduce shipping costs and do same day delivery they will be a big competitor)
- China Mobile Banks on 4G, iPhone Boost from The Wall Street Journal
- Chinese state media says Battlefield 4 video game is a ‘new form of cultural aggression’ from South China Morning Post (i have been playing BF4 with my brother this past week, it’s a so-so game. plot is interesting though not sensational like this story suggests)