NEWS ABOUT CHINA

Read ONLY China-related and school-appropriate stories

Click on Life and Culture, Sports, Entertainment and other topics of interest when on each site

1. Obama Fried Chicken?
2. Crazy protest of Microsoft factory
3. River pollution
4. No more palm-reading for toddlers
5. China lake dries up
6. Expensive pidgeon?
7. No more shark fin soup
8. Lack of restrooms for women - time to go unisex (one restroom for both men and women)
9. China boosting Rolls Royce sales
10. You can't take pictures of a store?
11. Apple store in Beijing pelted with eggs?
    
    
12. An unusual story about English
13. Why did this building collapse?
14. What in the world? Orange Beijing?
15. What is "corruption"?
16. Why is this ancient statue in danger?
    
    
17. Students - don't stand so close
18. Need manners?
19. Mega-city planned and some current mega-cities
20. What's the car trouble in Beijing, the capital?
21. Tennis fans can read this
22. Argument about Chinese parents
23. Electric cars - working with the Germans
24. Are some Chinese getting richer?
25. Big Bird in China
26. Pandas in the US
27. More on zoo animals in China
28. Massive road building and high-speed train breaks record
29. Pollution from China reaches California? Air pollution in China and more pollution
30. Overdoing it with wealth
31. Interesting vending machine
32. A piano player with no arms?
33. Chinese bows
34. Internet censorship and Google's problems in China
35. Kick the people out!
36. You mean I don't own the ground I'm buried in?
37. Music and copyright
38. A village sinks?
39. Chinese mystery plane
40. Don't twitter - you might end up in jail or try to keep them from taking your house
41. Dangerous to protest in China? Free speech? An absent Nobel Peace prize winner
42. Dangerous to protest even poisoning?
43. Voices of dissent/disagreement
44. Protesting poor services
45. Banning plastic surgery?
46. What is Taiwan's history? Different from mainland China
47. Basketball in China and a US star
48. Housewives Smuggling iPads
49. Deadly grass fire and building tower fire
    

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    NEWS SERVICES
    
    
50. Reuters: China
51. BBC Asia News - see stories on right side
52. Wall Street Journal: China - the only paper worth reading anymore
53. UK Telegraph China
    
    
54. Young SCM Post China and Hong Kong and Sports
55. CCTV - Chinese society. Cable channel available in St. Louis and Video News from CCTV
56. People's Daily - Life and Culture and China Today
57. People's Daily Online - with more links at bottom to other news sources
58. What and when was the Expo 2010 in Shanghai?

PODCASTS - language and culture

Search your iTunes Store for "Chinese" and "Learn Chinese" - how to use iTunes to access these podcasts:

1. Learn Chinese with Video Podcast
2. Learn Mandarin Chinese with CLO
3. Active Chinese's Podcast
4. Learning Mandarin Podcast
5. Chinese Tutorials
6. Chinese Station 2
   
   
7. New Tang Dynasty
8. Vanguard and Best of Current TV and Unseen and Viewer Created Content
9. Bejing Olypics Travel Video Guide
10. City by City (HD)
11. World PBS and Frontline World PBS
12. Washington Post HD
13. World Focus
14. PRI's The World International
15. NYT's World News
16. Simply Ming Video Podcast - food
17. IndieTrekker Videos
18. 20 sec.China
19. WDEVN - All about the living word - from Asia
20. theshangshaishow
    
    
21. Turning Taiwanese
22. ourlifeintaiwan
23. Hong Kong Dream Entertainment
24. Welcome to Hong Kong
25. RTHK: Hong Kong Today
26. South China Morning Post
    
    
27. Asia 0900
28. Asia247.tv
29. At Large in Asia
30. More Chinese Podcasts and resources