Historical photo of the Great Wall of China.
Here we have some amazing photographs of China, some from over 100 years ago. The photographs show people from the poorest in China to China’s nobility. (Pics)
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China is waging a prolonged and stringent fight against the illegal use of additives in food.
151 materials forbidden or abusable in food and feed over the past nine years have been blacklisted by China, according to figures released by the food safety committee under the State Council, or China’s Cabinet.
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Health officer talks to factory workers.
The biggest danger to Chinese workers is not workplace accidents, but occupational disease. There are potentially 200 million workers in China that are under the threat of contracting an occupational disease according to a senior trade union official.
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Sex selection is now invading parts of India that didn’t used to practice it
The news from India’s 2011 census is almost all heartening. Literacy is up; life expectancy is up; family size is stabilising. But there is one grim exception. In 2011 India counted only 914 girls aged six and under for every 1,000 boys.
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China’s more affluent generation of middle class families have been raising more and more pampered children bringing a growing blight of obesity to Chinese society.
In a sleepy riverside village in Southern China, three-year-old Lu Zhihao tears around his home; his belly, arms and legs wobbling with fat as he stuffs a pear into his mouth.
Scientists have successfully created a herd of more than 200 cows that is capable of producing milk that contains the characteristics of human milk.
Details are a bit thin on this one, but my initial reaction to this is an overwhelming grossness: Researchers in China have genetically modified some 200 cows so that the milk they produce is similar to human milk.
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Kang Shoe Company electric shoe car.
A footwear manufacturer in China has made an electric car out of a giant shoe. A shoe shaped electric car is the newest promotional tool of the Kang Shoe Company, headquartered in Wenzhou in eastern China’s Zhejiang Province.
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Armed rebels in Libya.
As angry populations roil one Middle Eastern regime after another, and discontent over escalating food prices and lagging living standards is heard elsewhere in the developing world, investors are moving staggering piles of cash out of emerging markets.
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Protesters react in Tahrir Square to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s televised speech in Cairo February 1, 2011.
Chinese authorities have blocked the word “Egypt” from searches on Twitter-like microblogging sites in an indication of concern among Communist Party leaders that the unrest there could encourage similar calls for political reform in China.
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Ordinary Chinese people priced out of China’s property market.
To understand how far ordinary Chinese have been priced out of their country’s property market, you need to look not upwards at the Beijing’s shimmering high-rise skyline, but down, far below the bustling streets where nearly 20m people live and work. There, in the city’s vast network of unused air defence bunkers, as many as a million people live in small, windowless rooms that rent for £30 to £50 a month, which is as much as many of the city’s army of migrant labourers can afford. (Pics)
The total number of credit cards issued by commercial banks in China has climbed as of this month to 210 million.
The China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC) has tightened the rules on the issuance and use of credit cards to limit misuse in business, as credit card usage explodes by 44% over last year.
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China planning to merge nine cities to create the world’s largest mega city.
China is planning to create the world’s biggest mega city by merging nine cities to create a metropolis twice the size of Wales with a population of 42 million. City planners in south China have laid out an ambitious plan to merge together the nine cities that lie around the Pearl River Delta.
By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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