Shanghai 'sinking' from skyscrapers: China's largest city, Shanghai, is to slash construction of new high-rise buildings to try and stop the city from sinking under the weight of all the concrete and steel.
China reaches a flash point over property rights: At the center of the battle is property, the very issue that put the Communist Party in power 54 years ago with the promise of land for peasants. The Communists soon confiscated the land for collective farming but then redistributed it as communes collapsed. Today, only the state owns the land, but peasants and city residents have rights to own buildings and to lease land.
China trains all-woman, seductive anti-rape squad: An anti-rape squad of female detectives selected for their seductive looks, skill in martial arts and acting ability has been set up by police in China. . . . Part of their job will be to act as the bait—and the trap—for sexual assailants who have plagued the Zhongyuan suburban district.
Beijing Sends In the Masses to Make Tibet More Chinese: Not far from Potala Palace, the hilltop fortress once home to Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, and still a symbol of Tibetan culture, the main commercial boulevard here has become a very different symbol, of how Tibet is inexorably becoming more Chinese. [NY Times: requires free registration]
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