ENGLISH EDITION OF THE WEEKLY CHINESE NEWSPAPER, IN-DEPTH AND INDEPENDENT
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  • Village Labels Itself a City | 7-26 14:23
  • Local party secretary decides his village deserves to be called a city.
  • Company Finds its Workers Dates | 7-26 11:25
  • A company in Jiangsu is spending hundreds of thousands of yuan each year trying to find that someone special for their single employees.
  • The Party Elite in the Provinces | 7-24 15:03
  • A look at the composition of the the communist party Standing Committees in each province - half of the new appointees were born in the 1960s.
  • Beijing’s Clumsy Steps into Space | 7-3 21:42
  • The government has poured billions of yuan into the space program and can count the pay-offs in terms of military technologies, but it should have co-opted private investors.
  • Workers Elect Trade Union Reps | 6-18 22:57
  • Workers in Shenzhen are getting more of a say in who represents their interests, just don't call them direct elections.
  • Listing the God of Fortune Temple | 6-15 15:17
  • It might look like a temple, but according to the listed company that is now counting its tickets sales among its assests, it's a cultural tourism site.
  • My Life as a Demolisher | 6-11 18:28
  • The author of The Demolishers’ Handbook says you can vacate villages without smearing people’s doors with excrement or putting snakes in their beds.
  • Why Migrants’ Kids Dread Exams | 6-6 10:58
  • At 9 a.m. on Thursday, seven million Chinese teenagers will begin two days of exams to determine their prospects, but it's not just the scores that count.
  • Fujian To Pioneer Gaokao Reform | 6-4 19:25
  • The coastal province is struggling to retain the migrants who staff its factories, but that might change once the children of those workers can sit exams locally.
  • BYD's Electric Taxi Fire | 6-1 19:00
  • The share price of BYD took a hit after one of its taxis exploded in flames early Monday morning after being involved in a high-speed accident.
  • Judges: Overworked, Undervalued | 5-31 16:36
  • Only three percent of witnesses ever appear in a courtroom and judges rule on up to four cases a day - the EO hears about the stresses of administering justice in China.
  • Getting onto the Party Congress | 5-23 18:50
  • One entrepreneur's quest to become a delegate to the Communist Party's National Congress and how it was more difficult than steering his company's IPO.
  • Private Lending Clubs in Fujian | 5-17 17:58
  • Private lending auctions are common in the province's coastal towns - whoever offers to pay the highest rate gets the loan, which is taken from a pool of members' funds.
  • Sichuan's Bleakest Town | 5-10 16:28
  • No one feels at home in Lingshui, a provincial town with a street called “Waiting for Death,” hundreds of mah-jong addicts and BMW owners on annual visits to their abandoned parents.
  • Myanmar's Suspended Dam Part 3 | 5-9 16:54
  • The third part of Qin Hui's three-part series on the Myitsone dam focuses on the relationship between the Chinese and Burmese.
  • Zhejiang's "Toxic Capsule" Town | 5-9 10:59
  • The factories using industrial gelatin to make pills were closed soon after CCTV reported the scandal, but the workers themselves had long avoided the pills.
  • Sichuan's Foxconn Deal | 5-4 16:26
  • Civil servants used tax break and cheap land to lure Foxconn to Chengdu, but some of them are regretting the government's pledge to help recruit workers for the factory.
  • 'Cheap, Obedient' Korean Workers | 4-26 15:51
  • "He does whatever he’s told and doesn’t complain." The EO hears from bosses in Dandong, where there's a thriving trade in illegal labor from North Korea.
  • Sichuan – Keeping its Rival Close | 4-17 16:36
  • Sichuan's development plans were thrown off track by the Wenchuan earthquake and the provincial party boss was forced to focus on restoration and reconstruction.
  • Guangdong - The Cutting Edge | 4-17 16:33
  • Guangdong, which accounts for only 1.9 percent of China's land area, generates one eighth of the country's GDP. As economic growth slows, workers may struggle for basic necessities, such as food and clothing.

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