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Year of Tiger begins with big cat tragedy

Opinion | Chinese perspectives
2010-3-19

THE recent death of 11 endangered Siberian tigers from starvation in a northeastern Chinese zoo is an ironic tragedy in the Year of the Tiger, when the animal is a beloved symbol of power, protection and wealth. ...

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'Thunder proposals' by political advisers are just silly hot air

Opinion | Chinese perspectives
2010-3-19

OVER the past two weeks, reporters thronged to Beijing for the annual session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, China's top political advisory body. Unlike past sessions, this one saw quite...

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Lapses in Metro security

Opinion | Foreign perspectives
2010-3-18

DEAR editor, I am writing in reply to your article "Metro checks go system wide" published on Tuesday. According to this article, all Metro stops have gone online. However I must say that the Metro checking...

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People's wealth flows into a few hands

Opinion | Chinese perspectives
2010-3-18

AS China's widening income gap threatens social stability and hampers consumer spending, the government is moving to reform the revenue distribution system. According to a recent World Bank report, the Gini Coefficient...

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Real culprits: policies, lack of reform - not hedge funds, equities

Opinion | Foreign perspectives
2010-3-18

EPISODES like the current financial crisis seriously disrupt economic growth. But the question that we should be asking concerns such episodes' impact on longer-term development. And that question has attracted surprisingly...

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Europe faces vicious circle that can lead to economic stagnation

Opinion | Foreign perspectives
2010-3-17

THE Great Recession of 2008-2009 was triggered by excessive debt accumulation and leverage on the part of households, financial institutions, and even the corporate sector in many advanced economies. While there...

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Putting death's head on cigarette packs

Opinion | Chinese perspectives
2010-3-17

THIRTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD Sun Ling is not a heavy smoker. But for 10 years, Sun, a civil servant in Shanghai, has become used to indulging in one two cigarettes after lunch at work. Within one year he might have to find...

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Serving chopsticks protect health

Opinion | Chinese perspectives
2010-3-17

IT is only half a year since we were last in Shanghai, but the city has again changed in the lead-up to World Expo 2010. The new Metro lines together with the existing ones have linked almost all corners of Shanghai...

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No place in cities, no home on the range

Opinion | Chinese perspectives
2010-3-16

LACKING education, resentful of urbanites' stares, indifferent to farmland and longing for a decent life in cities, the "second generation" migrant farm workers are emerging in China and posing new challenges to the...

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Economic crisis and butterfly effect

Opinion | Foreign perspectives
2010-3-16

FEW economists predicted the current economic crisis, and there is little agreement among them about its ultimate causes. So, not surprisingly, economists are not in a good position to forecast how quickly it will...

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Fireworks blaze sheds light on scandal and cleanup challenge

Opinion | Shanghai Daily columnists
2010-3-16

A LUXURY hotel in Beijing was engulfed in flames ignited by fireworks set off by the owner on February 9 last year. The hotel was part of the China Central Television's (CCTV's) new headquarters. As the 21...

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A view from Iowa State on China and America

Opinion | Foreign perspectives
2010-3-15

WAN Lixin's columns about America recall for me the Scottish poet Robert Burns' comment, "God give us the grace to see others as they see us." His columns about America have served as that kind of invaluable point...

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Barefoot docs and naked truth of health care

Opinion | Chinese perspectives
2010-3-15

FOR many Chinese, in particular those living in rural areas, the difficulty of paying for expensive health care when they fall ill is an ugly reality. It's no secret that China has serious imbalance of allocated...

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Reforming public hospital system

Opinion | Chinese perspectives
2010-3-15

THE high cost and poor availability of health services have been among the loudest complaints of the Chinese public. "Why it is so difficult for ordinary people to see a doctor?" asked Wang Faxue, who lost 2.5...

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How the 'Nordic Tiger' lost bite and might

Opinion | Book review
2010-3-13

LAST Saturday, Icelandic voters flatly rejected a government deal to repay British and Dutch depositors the equivalent of US$5.3 billion lost in the devastating meltdown of the country's banking industry in 2008. ...