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| Mt. Everest, the Oppressed Mountain The planned Olympic torch relay to the summit of the highest peak in the world, Mt. Everest, is a farce, says alpinist Reinhold Messner. According to him, the torch will not be able to burn at such heights without extra oxygen, and the TV-footage of the event has already been shot. | ||
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| Air pollution destroying flowers’ fragrance Researchers at the University of Virginia have shown that air pollution from power plants and automobiles is wiping out the fragrance of flowers and thus hampering the ability of pollinating insects to track scent trails to their source. The researchers say that the findings could partly explain why wild populations of some pollinators, mainly bees, which need nectar for food, are fading in several areas of the world, including California and the Netherlands. | ||
| The Wonderful Chinese Wok As the popularity of Chinese cooking continues to grow, cooks around the world are becoming more familiar with traditional Chinese cooking utensils. One of these is the wok, which is the perfect utensil to prepare all kinds of food – from meat and vegetables to seafood and pasta. The wok has been around for more than 2000 years - it originated around the time of the Han Dynasty, the same time period as Jesus Christ. At that time, the Chinese already knew how to forge metal and make cooking utensils. Their cooking utensils included clay pots, metal pots with three legs and the wok. The wok evolved as an extremely efficient cooking pot that could cook food very quickly over high heat. This was necessary because firewood was in short supply and the intense heat created in the fire didnt last long. | ||
| Sichuan Quake Reveals Gross Failings in the System Beijing’s quick response to the Sichuan earthquake, including allowing foreign experts to take part in the rescue effort, has earned the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership relatively high marks for openness—and for its apparent readiness to live up to the “putting people first” credo. Yet more than three weeks after disaster struck on May 12, the attention of the public—as well as China observers worldwide—has turned to the CCP’s glaring failings in areas ranging from governance and transparency to the quality and rectitude of officials. Moreover, the Politburo under President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao has yet to demonstrate sufficient resolve to penalize cadres whose dereliction of duty, corruption and malfeasance have exacerbated the damage of this “natural disaster of the century.” | ||
| Instability in Tibet and Its Repercussions for Xinjiang Since March 10, unrest in the Tibet Autonomous Region—in spite of the Chinese government efforts at keeping it secret—punctured China’s Great Wall as news, pictures and videos flooded the internet, and each day there appears to be news about protests that emerge not only in Tibet but also in neighboring provinces in China and other countries. The root causes of these protests, as Tibet pundits argue, are the result of Beijing’s autocratic rule and forced Sinification policies in Tibet since 1959, while the Chinese government claims that it was a plan carefully orchestrated and instigated by Tibet’s spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama. ... | ||
| Expel Chinese Consul Who Rallied New York Mobs, Says Lawyer The U.S. should expel the Chinese consul who has been encouraging violent attacks on critics of the Chinese regime in New York Citys Flushing Chinatown, says a prominent human rights lawyer. On May 17 a mob of hundreds swarmed a small rally on the sidewalk outside the Flushing Library where volunteers had set up a booth to allow Chinese people to withdraw from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). ... | ||
| Stories from History: Qu Tutongs Well-Intentioned Advice Qu Tutong was a brave general in the Sui dynasty. Once, Emperor Wendi ordered him to check the livestock record at Longxi and he found there were twenty thousand horses not recorded in the book. Emperor Wendi got very angry and arrested fifteen hundred officials related to the affair and wanted to execute them all. | ||
| Former Chinese Diplomat: The Regime Has Close Ties With Overseas Mafias Since May 17, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has instigated, imported agents and thugs into Flushing to harass and attack volunteers of the Quit the CCP Service Center. In an Epoch Times interview, former Chinese diplomat Mr. Chen Yonglin commented that the regime has always had close ties with overseas Chinese mafia. | ||
| Quake Lakes in Tangjiashan Discharged | ||
| Tolerance a Necessity to Win Global Dominance A country must have tolerance toward diversity if it wants to achieve global dominance, says bestselling author and globalization expert Amy Chua. Conversely, history has repeatedly seen intolerance in the event of a hyperpowers downfall, says Chua in her latest book, Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance—and Why They Fall. | ||
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