Every day Li Yizhong translates and puts into brief perspective the headlines of the Shanghai Morning Post's daily newspaper, Shanghai's largest morning newspaper

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The People’s Bank of China decided to cut the current interest rate not 25 basis points, not 50 basis points, not even ... Read more »

Every day Li Yizhong translates and puts into brief perspective the headlines of the Shanghai Morning Post's daily newspaper, Shanghai's largest morning newspaper

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Illegal taxis have become a menace not only stealing business away from legitimate taxi drivers but also tarnishing the image of Shanghai. The ... Read more »

Every day Li Yizhong translates and puts into brief perspective the headlines of the Shanghai Morning Post's daily newspaper, Shanghai's largest morning newspaper

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The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security announced its decision to raise the pension level of retirees across China. Retirees will get ... Read more »

Every day Li Yizhong translates and puts into brief perspective the headlines of the Shanghai Morning Post's daily newspaper, Shanghai's largest morning newspaper

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Waking up to a burning house, Ms. Zhang’s first reaction was to wrap her crying daughter in a quilt and try to ... Read more »

Every day Li Yizhong translates and puts into brief perspective the headlines of the Shanghai Morning Post's daily newspaper, Shanghai's largest morning newspaper

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If you had time over the weekend to watch TV news or grab a paper, you probably already saw something about the G20 ... Read more »

Every day Li Yizhong translates and puts into brief perspective the headlines of the Shanghai Morning Post's daily newspaper, Shanghai's largest morning newspaper

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The headlines these days involves saving the economy, injecting capital, increasing spending and prompting internal needs. I guess if you really think about ... Read more »

Every day Li Yizhong translates and puts into brief perspective the headlines of the Shanghai Morning Post's daily newspaper, Shanghai's largest morning newspaper

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The Chang’e One satellite sent back the complete set of visual data it took on its 384 days trip around the moon ... Read more »

Every day Li Yizhong translates and puts into brief perspective the headlines of the Shanghai Morning Post's daily newspaper, Shanghai's largest morning newspaper

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The Chinese government plans to invest 5 trillion RMB to build roads and airports until 2010. My first question after reading this was ... Read more »

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With a concrete 4 trillion capital injected into the market through government spending, the shanghai stock market rallied 7.27%, reminiscent of the good times during last few years. All stocks went red and now you know why the Chinese picked red as their lucky color. Red ... Read more »

As the after-effects of the global financial crisis continue to unfold, China is beginning to feel the string of a dwindling global demand. The policy maker has been flexible in the face of a new market situation for the past month by releasing supporting measures across the board.

Today, concrete ... Read more »

Warning parents of small children under 6 years old, for the next two weeks, please stay indoors to avoid heavy haze and fog. These common whether occurrences can do more than meets the eye. Decreasing visibility and increasing wetness are just common effects that almost everyone is aware of. However ... Read more »

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The front page picture is symbolic of a closer relationship between mainland China and Taiwan. The picture shows the top delegate from mainland hugging the chairman of Taiwan’s Straits Exchange Foundation as he finally arrives in Taiwan. The same picture could have been taken 9 years ... Read more »

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As we approached a global recession, the Chinese government has taken a new direction to prompt internal needs. After its meeting this year, the central committee released a new initiative on developing rural areas following the central theme of expanding domestic market needs.

When the central government ... Read more »

A college junior brought a laptop from ASUS. Later when she found out that ASUS gave her a defective CPU from Intel, she sued the company for 5 million dollars. In the end, the court decided not to hear her case and gave her a 10 month sentence for blackmail ... Read more »

Dr. Cheng Chunming，a popular professor at China University of Political Science and Law was killed by a senior student at the same school during a lecture on this Tuesday. As if this is not shocking enough, according the China daily, this is the third such attack in less than ... Read more »

Every day Li Yizhong translates and puts into brief perspective the headlines of the Shanghai Morning Post's daily newspaper, Shanghai's largest morning newspaper

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Well, the agriculture bank made a statement yesterday by becoming the first bank to release its new mortgage policy in the morning and ... Read more »

As consumers starting to forget about the contaminated milk powder, Hong Kong authority pull the alarm again with its finding of contaminated eggs imported from mainland China. These eggs are produced by a division of China’s Dalian Hanwei Enterprise Group.

As Hong Kong authority tried to reassure consumer by ... Read more »

Over 10,000 people attended a 3 hour-long memorial service for Xie Jin, a god-like figure in the Chinese film industry. If you know directors like Ang lee or Zhang Yimou, think of Xie Jin as their mentor or teacher.

As the only director left from the old iron rice ... Read more »

Threatening letters containing a powder substance was sent to 45 financial institutions across 11 states in America including 7 different branches of JPMorgan Chase in Phoenix and the federal deposit insurance corporation in Dallas. The preliminary tests have found the powders to be harmless. Further tests are being conducted by ... Read more »

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From the beginning of this week, the Chinese government has announce its plan to lower taxes involved in the trading of second-hand houses, and this has given possible buyers a reason to postpone their purchase until the actual tax breaks come out in solid numbers. A smart ... Read more »

Zhang Mingqing, the dean of the Journalism school at Xiamen University and the vice chairman of the Association for Relations across the Taiwan Straits, was attacked by a mob of the Democratic Progressive Party supporters lead by Wang Tingyu, the Tainan City councilman. This city councilman pushed Mr. Zhang to ... Read more »

I believe many of you still remember the police killing that happened on July 1st, which resulted in the death of 6 officers. The attacker Yang Jia has already gotten a death sentence in his first trial on September 1st. He appealed to the people’s court of Shanghai, but ... Read more »

Consistence with the guidelines in the 17th central committee meeting held in September, the central government in Beijing has come up with new policies aim to raise the income and standard of living of rural villagers across China.

The critical point in the new set of policies is the permission ... Read more »