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All rights reserved. webmaster@meoldchina.com webmaster@meoldchina.com PHP RSS Feed THE AFFABLE BBC foreign affairs correspondent, Hugh Sykes, suggested in an item on Radio 4's Broadcasting House at the... http://www.meoldchina.net/newsdetaile.php?id=2&t=10&nid=235 2008-08-12 03:49:19 CLIMATE CHANGE catastrophists routinely accuse their opponents of being in the pay of Big Oil, but in at least a few c... http://www.meoldchina.net/newsdetaile.php?id=1&t=24&nid=233 2008-08-06 03:35:41 IN ONE of Beijing's southern suburbs - where a multitude of tenements, industrial units and gated apartment complexes have been built over the last two decades to accommodate the city's ceaseless growth - the government has been pleading with angry local res... http://www.meoldchina.net/newsdetaile.php?id=2&t=9&nid=232 2008-08-05 09:13:42 IN 1805, seven of the most powerful pirate groups in China decided to form a federation, whereupon they carved up the coast between them. Eventually, the British Navy turned up, and using Hong Kong as their base to trade tea, silk and opium, they sought to set up a pirate-free zo... http://www.meoldchina.net/newsdetaile.php?id=3&t=13&nid=213 2008-04-18 02:58:36 AFTER A day and a half or so in the barely tolerable sub-zero temperatures of Urumqi, the time had come to take a 23-hour train to Kashgar, China’s westernmost city close to the frontiers of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Pakistan.  The train eases t... http://www.meoldchina.net/newsdetaile.php?id=2&t=11&nid=238 2009-03-10 10:35:48 THE EXECRABLE Yang Rui is the host of CCTV 9's Dialogue, but Monologue would be a more appropriate title as he fritters away ye... http://www.meoldchina.net/newsdetaile.php?id=2&t=10&nid=237 2009-01-17 05:05:25 CHINA HAS been plunged into a state of unmitigated indifference on the news that Chairman Mao Zedong's last placeman and food tester, Hua Guofeng, has finally died at the age of 87. While Deng Xiaoping is regarded as the father of modern China, Hua ... http://www.meoldchina.net/newsdetaile.php?id=2&t=31&nid=236 2008-08-20 08:29:28 WE ARE honoured to announce the formal launch of the Me Old China "End of the Olympics Countdown Clock" (TM) to celebrate the glorious day - August 25 - when the armed police officers of Hebei Province return to their day job harassi... http://www.meoldchina.net/newsdetaile.php?id=2&t=9&nid=231 2008-08-05 01:40:27 FIRST THE superstitions, and now the conspiracy theories. ... http://www.meoldchina.net/newsdetaile.php?id=2&t=10&nid=220 2008-05-21 07:55:04 LAST WEEK Me Old China had the great pleasure of meeting the articulate and urbane Yvo de Boer, the head of the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, who repeated the usual post-apoca... http://www.meoldchina.net/newsdetaile.php?id=1&t=24&nid=219 2008-04-29 01:22:25 GEORGE ORWELL once drew attention to a tendency among certain members of the intelligentsia to id... http://www.meoldchina.net/newsdetaile.php?id=2&t=10&nid=218 2008-04-27 05:44:37 SO, WE once again hear the whir of bicycle spokes as the Chinese government backpedals furiously away, terrified that the great "coming-out party" that is the 2008 Olympic Games might be spoiled by s... http://www.meoldchina.net/newsdetaile.php?id=2&t=10&nid=217 2008-04-20 09:50:49 THE PEOPLE of the Chinese countryside, like people in all countrysides, are a superstitious lot. Their lives haven't changed very much in centuries, and they are still dependent on a number of vague forces some distance beyond their control, whether it be China... http://www.meoldchina.net/newsdetaile.php?id=2&t=26&nid=216 2008-04-20 08:29:05 One of these kids is doing his own thing...ONE"ONE CHINA": http://www.meoldchina.net/newsdetaile.php?id=4&t=16&nid=215 2008-04-20 08:08:45 DESPITE what the government has told us about the unity of the Chinese people as they shudder beneath the waves of foreign hypocrisy and prejudice, dissenting voices do occasionally show through.  Unfortu... http://www.meoldchina.net/newsdetaile.php?id=2&t=10&nid=214 2008-04-18 09:35:49 Review of  GENERALISSIMO: Chiang Kai-Shek and the China He Lost by Jonathan Fenby IT IS sometimes hard to imagine how brutal, desperate, and cruel life was in China in the post-Imperial era, dominated as it was by a gang of competing warlords and ban... http://www.meoldchina.net/newsdetaile.php?id=2&t=26&nid=212 2008-04-18 02:20:23 RIOTS erupt on the streets of Lhasa and dozens of Han Chinese citizens - including at least nine policemen - are killed in the violence.  In response, the Chinese authorities send in the troops and blame the "Dalai clique&quo... http://www.meoldchina.net/newsdetaile.php?id=2&t=10&nid=211 2008-04-15 10:09:44 COVERING the latest session of the National People's Congress this week, your correspondent has been assailed and buttonholed and generally inconvenienced by countless Chinese journalists anxious to hear us confirm how "open and transparent" the "media environment&... http://www.meoldchina.net/newsdetaile.php?id=2&t=10&nid=209 2008-03-09 23:10:41 STATE MOUTHPIECE Xinhua said that 92 outdated laws have recently been revoked. We have obtained a list of those laws in full, so here are some of the highlights: Foreigner Cit... http://www.meoldchina.net/newsdetaile.php?id=2&t=9&nid=208 2008-01-24 01:30:17 WHEN China's family planning tsar, Zhang Weiqing, said that the government is about to strike hard against local celebrities and bigwigs who violate the One... http://www.meoldchina.net/newsdetaile.php?id=2&t=9&nid=207 2008-01-22 08:22:10