About five minutes before today’s three minutes of silence, my colleague Tom and I ventured across Jinling Lu to the park surrounding the Shanghai Concert Hall. From there, we were able to see the giant screen on the side of the Lansheng Theater building, which usually broadcasts ads for BMWs and the 2010 Expo, but […]
Category: Politics & Society
First saw this news from Shanghaiist, which has kept up with excellent, timely news updates on the situation in Sichuan: It’s early Monday morning and the China twitterati are abuzz with the news that all major Chinese web sites have been ordered to shutdown for the three days of national mourning which begins today. Here […]
Over half the populations of France and Germany respectively believe their national leaders should not attend the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Beijing. A poll conducted by the Financial Times and Harris Interactive found that 54% of French people and 55% of Germans are opposed to their leaders participating in the August 8 […]
The idea that people are able to cause earthquakes seems inherently wrong. Yet, in the wake of what has happened in Sichuan, there are reports that perhaps the Three Gorges Dam (TGD) – some 660 km (we wrongly said 200 km earlier) from Wenchuan – is partly responsible for increased seismic action in the area. […]
The Beijing Olympic organizing committee, BOCOG, announced that the Olympic torch relay would be cut back after an outcry from internet users over the continuation of the relay as planned following the earthquake in Sichuan on Monday, AFP reported. On one online forum, a commenter called it "inhuman" that the relay was to go on […]