Sinosphere Blog: Trying to Turn China’s Vacations Into Real Holidays
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on September 17th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
Sinosphere Blog: Trying to Turn China’s Vacations Into Real Holidays
Facing complaints about nationwide Golden Weeks that cause crippling travel bottlenecks, China has closed the office that scheduled them and given the task to a higher-level ministerial conference.
Bad Vaccine Kills Dozens of Children Inside Syria
Volunteer medical organizations said the vaccine afflicted dozens of children in insurgent-held areas of Idlib Province.
World Briefing: Fiji: Strongman Leading in Election Count
Fiji’s military ruler for the past eight years appeared to be headed to a decisive victory after the nation voted in a landmark election on Wednesday.
Sinosphere Blog: Lawsuit Aims to Put an End to ‘Gay Conversion Therapy’ in China
China decriminalized homosexuality in 1997 and declassified it as a mental illness in 2001, but clinics promising to “convert” gay people abound in a country where pressure to join the heterosexual mainstream is high.
World Briefing: Bangladesh: Islamist Leader’s Death Penalty Dropped
Bangladesh’s Supreme Court commuted the death sentence of an Islamist political leader on Wednesday who was convicted last year of war crimes during the nation’s 1971 war for independence.
