A Hong Kong odyssey

Source: China Daily

Hong Kong cinema is merging into the larger Chinese cinema, gaining strength and at the same time losing its own identity. Hong Kong cinema used to be one of the three largest in the whole world, ranking behind only Hollywood and ...
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The Evolving Urban Form: Shenzhen

Source: New Geography

No urban area in history has become so large so quickly then Shenzhen (Note 1). A little more than a fishing village in 1979, by the 2010 census Shenzhen registered 10.4 million inhabitants. It is easily the youngest urban area to have become one ...
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74 Chinese cities to publish daily PM2.5 reports

Source: Shanghai Daily

The Ministry of Environmental Protection has required 74 cities to apply a more comprehensive air quality monitoring standard and publish daily reports on PM2.5, a hazardous airborne pollutant, by the end of 2012. Cities in the Beijin ...
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Electricity Drop Indicates Slowdown in Chinese Economy

Source: The Epoch Times

A couple sharing a bicycle ride past electricity pylons beneath an overpass in Beijing on Nov. 15, 2010. (Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images) The nationwide consumption of electricity has always been an important barometer for evaluating China’s economy— ...
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The next chapter: Beyond growth

Source: Economist

Still plenty of room to grow THE POLICYMAKERS WHO will determine China’s future are trained at the Central Party School, a spacious oasis of scholarly tranquillity in north-west Beijing. The campus looks like an Ivy League school with Chinese characteris ...
Full article at: Economist  More like this  3 days ago, 10:10am CDT

J. Michael Welton: Traffic Solutions for the Future

Source: The Huffington Post

After decades of urban and suburban infrastructure designed by traffic engineers who've delivered tangled and ever-slowing meaning to the word oxymoron, Audi is turning to the architecture community for new ...
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500-meter building planned for Qianhai

Source: Shenzhen Party

A 500-METER-TALL landmark building will be built in the 15-km Qianhai area in Nanshan District that pilots modern service industries between Shenzhen and Hong Kong. The building will be more than 50 meters taller than Shenzhen ...
Full article at: Shenzhen Party  More like this  5 days ago, 8:52pm CDT

Another Indian trader goes missing in Yiwu

Source: The Hindu

An Indian trader has gone missing in the Chinese town of Yiwu, after an unidentified man took him away from a local restaurant, in an incident that is set to trigger a fresh commercial and diplomatic dispute, amid already rising strains betwe ...
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Why Buyers Can't Leave Hong Kong and the Neighboring Pearl River Delta

Source: Forbes

THERE’S AN ONGOING debate regarding the viability of sourcing in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) region fueled by headlines about labor shortages, rising wages and power outages. Some see sourcing moving out of China to lower cost competitors such as Vietnam ...
Full article at: Forbes  More like this  6 days ago, 10:41pm CDT