Municipalities of the People'S Republic of China

China Digest, October 2, 2012

2 Oct 2012

BEIJING

Huge water park unveiled

4:49AM

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28 Aug 2012

GUANGDONG

Luxury spending falls

3:31AM

Bo Xilai and his white elephants

9 Aug 2012

Liao Bigang long dreamed of moving out of his 700 yuan (HK$858) a month shack in one of the slums of inner Chongqing.

11:15PM

Gulf opens between residents and official media over floods

29 Jul 2012

The news footage on Beijing Television showing Beijing party secretary Guo Jinlong having instant noodles at an emergency meeting over the deadly July 21 flood in the early hours of the following...

10:35PM

Shanghai land sale flies in face of cabinet warning

27 Jul 2012

A residential site in Shanghai sold at auction for 1.64 billion yuan (HK$2.01 billion) after a fierce bidding among 11 developers, despite a State Council warning of possible tightening in...

2:43PM

Heaviest rain in 6 decades causes chaos in Beijing

23 Jul 2012

At least 37 people were killed as the heaviest downpour in six decades hit Beijing, causing chaos and sparking criticism of officials ill-prepared to deal with an emergency situation.

10:02PM

Opinion

The last straw for Terry Wong?

2:53PM

Alex Lo

We need a sober view of sexual violence

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4:10AM

Tianjin residential site gets record price

Another land sale on the mainland set a record yesterday in Tianjin, where a residential site became the city's most expensive in terms of floor area.

2:43PM

High expectations

Beijing and Shanghai are the best cities for expatriates to live in. However, this may indicate that the two have the largest expat populations and better amenities, services and opportunities,...

9:35PM

Planners need to discourage cars

Rushing too quickly to embrace modernity has a downside, as residents of China's car and smog-choked cities well know. Yet, as high housing costs force them to live ever-farther from jobs, buying...

7:43PM

Guangzhou hitting the brakes on traffic growth

Guangzhou is seeking to ease traffic congestion and curb pollution by limiting the number of vehicles on the road.

7:04PM

Consumer-led economy needs happy investors

[Former chief executive Tung Chee-hwa] said that over the next 20 years the mainland's economy would move from one driven by exports to one driven by domestic consumption that emphasised value-...

6:48PM

Shanghai publishing more air quality readings

Shanghai began publishing readings of fine, inhalable particulate matter, known as PM2.5, from eight more monitoring stations yesterday, taking the total in the city to 10.

6:45PM