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Radiation Risks Are Low in Japan, but Panic Is High
By not in system - AOL NewsTOKYO -- Risks from possible radiation exposure remain greatest for the workers scrambling to cool reactors at a Japanese nuclear power plant. Those who have been evacuated from the site are considered safe, as are the 39 million people who live in the greater Tokyo region. But that hasn't stopped the panic: Supermarkets in Beijing and Shanghai ran out of salt this week, as Chinese stocked up on the mistaken belief that it protects against radiation. Russians rushed to buy seaweed, which contains iodine, and red wine, which Soviet authorities recommended in the wake of the Chernobyl ...
Size Matters: Why Americans Would Never Go for Japan's Capsule Hotels
By Larry Knowles - AOL NewsSorry, Japan. Size matters. With the first Japanese capsule hotel opening in Shanghai last month, microhotels could be the next big trend in low-budget accommodations in China. But even in a recession, don't look for capsules to start popping up around the U.S., because when it comes to accommodations, Americans are all a bunch of size queens. "The brands really have spoiled the American traveler," Jay Schultz, senior vice president of Hotel Business, publisher of Hotel Business Magazine, told AOL News. "The American guest wants, at minimal, what they have at home, if not ...
China Tries to Stamp Out 'Jasmine Revolution'
By not in system - AOL NewsBEIJING -- Jittery Chinese authorities staged a show of force to squelch a mysterious online call for a "Jasmine Revolution," with hundreds of onlookers but only a handful of people actively joining protests inspired by pro-democracy demonstrations sweeping the Middle East. Authorities detained activists Sunday, increased the number of police on the streets, disconnected some cell phone text messaging services and censored Internet postings about the call to stage protests in Beijing, Shanghai and 11 other major cities. Police took at least three people away in Beijing, one of whom tried to ...
China Cracks Down on Call for 'Jasmine Revolution'
By not in system - AOL NewsBEIJING -- Chinese authorities cracked down on activists as a call circulated for people to gather in more than a dozen cities Sunday for a "Jasmine Revolution" apparently inspired by the wave of pro-democracy protests sweeping the Middle East. The source of the call was not known, but authorities moved to halt its spread online, and police detained at least 14 people, by one activist's count. Searches for the word "jasmine" were blocked Saturday on China's largest Twitter-like microblog, and the website where the request first appeared said it was hit by an attack. Activists seemed not to ...
Is Ed Rendell Right When He Says China Is 'Kicking Our Butt'?
By Dave Thier - AOL NewsDoes Beijing have our number? Ed Rendell certainly thinks so. During a rant in which the Pennsylvania governor criticized the NFL for postponing Sunday's Vikings-Eagles game until today because of the monster blizzard, he also said the league's decision reflected a broader lack of toughness in the country. "We've become a nation of wusses. The Chinese are kicking our butt in everything," he said in an interview with a Philadelphia radio station. "If this was in China, do you think the Chinese would have called off the game? People would have been marching down to the stadium, they would have ...
Opinion: China's Students Do Better on Tests. So What?
By Walt Gardner - AOL News(Dec. 9) -- The news that China, or at least its students in Shanghai, came out on top in reading, math and science on the latest Program for International Student Assessment has created hysteria not seen since the publication of "A Nation at Risk" in 1983. Leading the hyperbolic charge was Chester E. Finn Jr., who wrote an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal calling the rankings "a Sputnik moment for U.S. education." He asserted that if China can produce ace PISA scorers in one city in 2009, it can do the same in 50 cities in 2029 -- or maybe faster. This is pure speculation, of course, but ...
Welders Detained in Deadly Shanghai High-Rise Fire
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News
(Nov. 16) -- Chinese police have detained four unlicensed welders accused of accidentally igniting a massive fire that spread across scaffolding affixed to a Shanghai skyscraper, killing 53 people. The 28-story residential building, housing mostly retired teachers and their families, was undergoing renovations to make it more energy-efficient when the fire broke out around lunchtime on Monday, China's Xinhua news agency reported. Two construction companies had covered the building in scaffolding made of flammable nylon netting and bamboo, which ignited quickly, the agency reported. China ...
Report: 53 Dead as Fire Ravages Shanghai Building
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News
(Nov. 15) -- Scores of people are reported dead after a huge fire ravaged an apartment building today in downtown Shanghai, sending up plumes of smoke that prevented helicopters from rescuing victims screaming for help from the roof. The Associated Press quoted the state news agency as saying that at least 53 people have perished in the fire. Desperate residents jumped from the building's windows as flames engulfed them, China's Xinhua news agency reported. The 30-story structure was being renovated when its scaffolding caught fire, it said. Flames quickly spread across more than a third of ...
Shanghai Considering One-Dog-Per-Family Policy
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News(Nov. 12) -- Thirty years after China imposed a one-child policy to limit population growth, authorities are turning their attention to overcrowding by man's best friend. Authorities in Shanghai are considering a one-dog policy. The law would allow one dog per family and require owners to register their pets at a cost of about $45 a year, Shanghai Daily reported. Residents would also be required to neuter or spay their dogs, and give puppies up for adoption by the time they're 3 months old. If passed, the measure would go into effect next year. Supporters say it's necessary because of ...
Mary Kay Cosmetics in China: Business Is in the Pink
By Eleanor Clift - Politics DailySHANGHAI -- On a warm and breezy August night here, a small group of reporters visiting from Washington met with the China president of Mary Kay cosmetics over dinner at a rooftop restaurant. Mary Kay is thriving in China, recovering nicely from a bleak time during the late 1990s when the Dallas-based company was shut down by the Chinese government, its network of sales consultants barred from doing business for five months. The venerable and innocent Mary Kay had been swept up in a government crackdown on pyramid schemes that cropped up as capitalism took root in the Chinese economy, many of ...
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