| CPO announces new season Posted: 30 Aug 2012 10:44 PM PDT The China Philharmonic Orchestra, one of the most internationally acclaimed symphonic groups in Asia, has announced its 12th performing season. |
| "Red Rose & White Rose" returns in Beijing Posted: 30 Aug 2012 07:26 PM PDT With their sharp, sensitive and often unsettling depictions of life and love in the big city, the literary works of 1940s Shanghainese novelist Eileen Chang gripped tens of thousands in their day and still do today. |
| A world without shopping? Posted: 30 Aug 2012 06:55 PM PDT Can there be a world without shopping? Some young people in Buenos Aires think so. They?ve brought the freegan movement to Latin America. They claim to live only on what others throw away- scavenging from bins, urban allotments, and swapping events. |
| Merkel To Help Chinese Return To Airbus- China Beat August 30- BONTV Posted: 30 Aug 2012 06:38 PM PDT | Angela Merkel will attempt to sell the benefits of doing business with Airbus while on her visit to China. That will involve the CEO of the parent company of Airbus and a visit to an assembly line in Tianjin. | Views: 0 0 ratings | | Time: 02:40 | More in News & Politics |
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| CNOOC opens offshore areas - Biz Wire August 30 - BONTV Posted: 30 Aug 2012 06:00 PM PDT | Go to www.bon.tv to watch the full episode Follow us on Weibo weibo.com CNOOC has opened 26 new offshore blocks for the exploration of oil. The areas are the second batch made available by CNOOC for cooperation with foreign companies. The latest auction includes 22 blocks in the South China Sea, three in the East China Sea and one in northern China's Bohai Bay, covering a total area of about 74000 square kilometers. CNOOC first started drilling in the South China Sea in May, and is optimistic about its prospects of finding oil. Previous to that, most of its domestic oil and gas exploration had been limited to shallower depths. Despite all the recent diplomatic disputes and heightened rhetoric about territory in the South China Sea, these 26 blocks are supposedly not located in areas of controversy. | Views: 0 0 ratings | | Time: 01:16 | More in News & Politics |
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| Book lovers flock to International Book Fair in Beijing Posted: 30 Aug 2012 06:13 PM PDT The 19th International Book Fair has opened in the capital. More than 2,000 publishing companies from around the world are making this the biggest yet. |
| Limits on "excessive entertainment" - Price Watch August 29 - BONTV Posted: 30 Aug 2012 02:48 AM PDT | Go to www.bon.tv to watch the full episode Follow us on Weibo weibo.com On today's show we'll discuss a slew of recent decrees from China's State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, or Sarft. The new guidelines are set to govern many aspects of entertainment programs and limit the number of foreign programs that can be aired. In perhaps the most comic of the restrictions, the SARFT has demanded that revolution-based TV series quote "clearly distinguish between friend and foe", and that shows depicting modern life avoid excessive displays of family conflict. Sarft has publicly denied issuing such regulations, but hundreds of thousands of netizens, including many prominent screenwriters, believe the regulations have already been implemented | Views: 0 0 ratings | | Time: 01:58 | More in News & Politics |
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| All alone - Media Watch August 29 -BONTV Posted: 30 Aug 2012 01:59 AM PDT | Go to bon.tv to watch the full episode About 10 million one-child families in China could end up childless in the next few decades according to a demographer's estimation, the Beijing Times reported on Monday. From 1975 to 2010, 218 million Chinese families observed the country's family-planning policy and had only one child. However, the national census conducted in 2000 shows that of every 10000 babies, 360 will die before the age of 10, 463 will die before 25 and 760 will die before 44. Given the fact that women older than 49 are normally incapable of conceiving babies, Yi Fuxian, a demographer with the China Institute for Reform and Development, came to the conclusion that over 10 million one-child families could lose their only offspring. Since Chinese people tend to depend on their children to support them in old age, the death of the only child could lead to financial hardship for aging parents. According to a national regulation on family planning released in 2001, local governments should provide necessary aid to one-child families if the child dies or is disabled and parents are unable to conceive another baby or adopt other children. But there is no further explanation as to what "necessary aid" should include. Shi Bainian, a professor at China Youth University for Political Sciences, advised authorities to pay more attention to the welfare of these families. Authorities should substantially raise the financial aid to such families. In addition, greater efforts <b>...</b> | Views: 0 0 ratings | | Time: 02:23 | More in News & Politics |
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| Lance Armstrong Abandons Anti-doping Defense - Microblog Buzz August 29 -- BONTV Posted: 30 Aug 2012 12:19 AM PDT | Go to bon.tv to watch the full episode Like us on Facebook www.facebook.com Follow us on Twitter Weibo reaction to Lance Armstrong abandoning his anti-doping defence, which led to a loss of his previous Tour de France titles. | Views: 1 0 ratings | | Time: 04:05 | More in News & Politics |
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| US tax laws worry HK insurers - Biz Wire August 29 - BONTV Posted: 30 Aug 2012 12:14 AM PDT | Go to www.bon.tv to watch the full episode Follow us on Weibo weibo.com Hong Kong insurers are opposed to the US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, which will take effect next January. They are still hoping to secure exemptions from reporting requirements under the controversial new tax law. This new tax law aims to prevent wealthy Americans from dodging their tax liabilities by requiring all companies and banks that service US clients to give more details on those clients' assets. Non-US financial institutions that fail to co-operate will be slapped with a 30 per cent withholding tax on their US-sourced income. The Hong Kong Investment Funds Association said in May that up to 2.5 million local employees covered by mandatory provident funds with US investments would be affected by the new law. And according to an insider of Hong Kong's insurance industry, the new tax law will seriously increase costs for insurance companies and investment firms in Hong Kong, and will also affect their investment choices. | Views: 1 0 ratings | | Time: 01:20 | More in News & Politics |
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