Commentary
Do We Really Need to Fingerprint 1.3bn People?
The new biometric ID card scheme needs serious consideration before we impose it on an unprepared nation
Monday, May 21, 2012, 10:19 AM CST – China
Horseback transportation of goods used to dominate ancient China’s agricultural society. Today horse-drawn carts remain in use in remote mountain regions.







State-owned enterprises have established dominance and enjoyed excessive profits in various industries, often at the cost of public interest.
The new biometric ID card scheme needs serious consideration before we impose it on an unprepared nation
Rioting in the Zhejiang township of Zhili has unnerved the local government, awakening Chinese administrators to the risks of using taxation to drive small-scale businesses out of the marketplace
A Chongqing man whose employers had declared insane has won a 13-year court battle to have the decision overturned. What consequences will this landmark case have?
With China’s 2011 Miss Universe contestant Luo Zilin wooing Manhattan before placing fourth in the pageant, is China experimenting with a new soft power secret weapon – the beauty queen?
China’s residence registration system restricts the ability of rural-born Chinese children to secure a place at college, regardless of academic achievement
A year and a half into the government’s housing market regulation scheme, property prices have at last begun to decline, but tensions remain high
Despite having a virtual monopoly on China’s oversupplied domestic market, attempts by the country’s wind energy companies to compete internationally have brought their lack of maturity into sharp focus
The developer of the popular mobile game recently claimed that Chinese piracy has helped his business, but domestic industry hopefuls aren’t so sure
From its source in Tibet, the Yarlung Tsangpo River meanders 2,900 kilometers and passes through India and Bangladesh. With devastating annual floods and potentially hazardous hydroelectricity projects in the pipeline, there is an urgent need for improved cross-border co-operation
A walk through the unlit, labyrinthine hutong at night can easily evoke unsettling thoughts of things that go bump in the night.
The extent to which these ayi hover over the children entrusted to them makes me wonder, are they more concerned with the child’s safety, or with simply appearing concerned?
China’s authorities are attempting to kick-start a cultural renaissance, but culture itself has never been the problem
Is e-commerce portal Taobao, China’s eBay equivalent, capitalizing on a lack of e-business regulation in China?
Taobao’s shift towards a business-to-consumer model has come at a cost to small-scale sellers, who are learning some harsh lessons about the cutthroat world of business
Higher pay and better competition has recently attracted Taiwanese basketball players across the straits to compete in the mainland CBA
Counterfeiting, driven by booms in speculation and investment, has now become endemic in China’s nascent art market
Internet shorts, dubbed “micro-movies,” are growing in popularity, but how long can this fringe genre escape official censorship?
As the Cultural Revolution raged across the country in early 1967, the Chinese Spring Festival holiday was cancelled, cutting through very roots of the nation’s culture and traditional values. NewsChina looks at how the most important date in the Chinese calendar became a day like any other
Despite its tourist-trap window dressing there’s always something new to discover in the tortuous alleyways of Pingyao, Shanxi
I had almost abandoned my quest to find a “real” hamburger after a series of crushing disappointments.
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