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November 4th, 2009
This past Sunday on Nov. 1, Beijing saw its earliest snowfall in 22 years. The sudden change in weather, which blanketed the entire city in snow, surprised many residents. But the news media later reported that the snowfall had actually been enhanced by the city’s weather modification office.
The reasoning behind ...
November 2nd, 2009
October 28th, 2009
On Oct. 14th, Chinese photographer Lu Guang won this year's $30,000 W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography for his photos on China’s environment. The Fund’s website posts the following paragraph describing Lu Guang’s project:
Lu Guang has been documenting the ecological disasters in China resulting from the rapid growth of ...
October 27th, 2009

Earlier in October, an apartment in Hong Kong was sold for USD$57 million, a recording breaking price, locally and globally. The 6,158 square foot duplex apartment is in a building called "Conduit Road 39" located at the western mid-levels of Hong Kong Island. The unidentified buyer is from Mainland China.
Recording ...
October 25th, 2009
October 22nd, 2009
This month, the Chinese press and online forums are saturated with coverage of Charles Kao’s winning of the Nobel Prize in Physics. Yet another overseas Chinese scientist has snatched the prestigious prize, this temporary moment of shared glory is quickly turned into a more profound question: when would China produce its first indigenous Nobel Prize winner?
China: Made-in-China Snow
- Some international forecasts had predicted snow for Beijing days before. Beijing forecasts had...
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