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POPSOutsiders Serve Up iPhone Nanos Outsiders meaning firms with absolutely no connection to Apple. Ubergizmo spotted this clamshell, iPod-like design (above) from China's HiPhone. Other knockoffs (like the second example, from Thailand) are just scaled-down versions of the original iPhone. Apple will likely update the iPhone line in June.
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POPSChina State Media's Cookie-Cutter Coverage People's Daily's front page coverage of the National People's Congress from each of the past six years. All identical save for the number of the parliamentary session and the names of the Politburo Standing Committee members on the podium. I guess if a format ain't broke, why fix it?
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POPSChina's Electronic Waste Village Where do our old computers and cellphones go? TIME says many end up in Guiyu, China, which houses 5,500 businesses devoted to processing discarded electronics. Click through for some amazing photos and commentary on how this affects the villagers' health.
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POPSBofA CCB Stake Sale Scuttled By China Rule Not that that law exists by accident. It is intended to stop foreign investors in strategic Chinese industries selling key stakes. Next year, the lockups on two other Chinese banks expire, too.
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POPSStump Staple: Bashing Free Trade National Journal's Peter Cohn details just how dirty the words "free trade" have become on the campaign trail. Story notes that in one ad from the Democratic party, Elizabeth Dole, a Republican U.S. senator representing North Carolina, is referred to as "the senator from China."
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POPSPrivately-funded Rocket Reaches Space Just a few days after the Chinese government performed its first spacewalk, SpaceX has achieved the first successful rocket launch funded by a private company. Finally, space exploration as a for-profit venture might be starting to make sense. And that may mean a new sort of race to the moon is beginning--this time between China's government and American private industry.
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POPSAdam Smith Meets Climate Change I don't follow the debate on how to create carbon markets as closely as I'd like. But this is an interesting idea about dividing emissions permits into two classes--for people helping and people really helping. Another thing worth pointing out is that even if Brazil, India and China didn't sign on, they'd still end up adapting many of the technologies that carbon markets would force. Carbon caps, for example, would accelerate progress toward more efficient solar power. But once that technology is there, and the price is lower than hydrocarbons (which most people in the solar industry, at least, believe will happen) then it will make sense for India to slap solar panels on all their roofs too.
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POPSNo More Billboards in Xi'an This from the blog of Intelligent Travel: the city of Xi'an has plans to remove billboards from the capital's walls. The move is part of a larger effort to restore Xi'an's heritage by controlling development and population growth.
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POPSOil demand isn't about us We've managed to knock down our driving and fuel consumption while, impressively, growing our economy 3.3%. But going forward, China and India will be huge consumers of oil. Any efficiency gains we can make will pay off.
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POPSEarthquake Creates New Tourist Spot in China Yesterday I clipped about visiting man-made disasters and today I came across this story about Chinese officials considering how to convert one of 34 'quake lakes' into a tourist destination. There are no specific details yet, but the idea is to draw visitors to a lake in Beichuan country, which was newly formed by earthquake-related flooding.
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POPSWhat's Causing the Drop-Off in Travel to China? As this article points out, new visa restrictions, the tension over Tibet, the Sichaun province earthquake and rising inflation are discouraging travelers from visiting China. Given all of these conditions, would you travel to China?
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POPSChina's Targeting University Alumni A really fascinating piece about how top Chinese universities are trying to grow a culture of donation along their alumni so that they can raise funds and beef up their resources.
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POPSChinese Stock Markets Tank Last time the Shanghai market plunged like this it triggered a global sell off of equities. Certainly markets everywhere are increasingly worried by inflation.
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POPSSummer Travel Tips Travel guru Arthur Frommer shares his top 10 tips for summer travel, which cover everything from Alitalia's fate to Alaska cruising. I've clipped three of them above.
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POPSGoogle, Microsoft, China Mobile Top Brands Other tech firms in the top 20 included Microsoft, IBM, Apple, Nokia.,Vodafone and HP. Why China Mobile? The company has more subscribers than the U.S. has people (nearly 400 million). Authoring firm Millward Brown noted that Chinese firms performed strongly this year, aided by continued growth in emerging markets.
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POPSShould You Travel to Repressive Countries? Using this summer's Olympics in China as a prime example, this article raises an interesting question: does traveling to a repressive country further embolden a government or increase an exchange of ideas that may one day lead to a freer society? What do you think?
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POPSFree Yang Tongyan The PEN Freedom To Write Award goes to a Chinese dissident, Yang Tongyan. Plenty of people are calling attention this week to China's treatment of Tibet. PEN is calling attention to China's treatment of writers.
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