china: news and opinion

A centenarian monk reads the newspaper

Daily SunshineNovember 4, 2009 Today's Daily Sunshine, a Shenzhen-based commercial paper, talked to the former abbot of Hongfa Temple ahead of his 103rd birthday on the 21st day of the 9th lunar month (November 7 this year). Master Benhuan (本焕), bor... ...full story at Danwei

from Danwei on Wed, Nov 04 2009

see also:


02 Jun 07		Buddha's 2631st birthday, Truc Lam Temple, Chicago » YouTube videoThe Buddha's birthday is traditionally celebrated on the 8th day of the 4th month of the Chinese lunar calendar. This year, the date fell on May 24th, but the celebration continued for a while at the Truc Lam Vietnamese Temple, 1521 W. Wilson Ave. The...
30 Jul 08		Police destroy 14,277 'illegal' motorcycles with bulldozers » Danwei Daily SunshineJuly 30, 2008 Today's Daily Sunshine reported that 14,277 confiscated "illegal motorcycles" were destroyed by bulldozers in Yungang district, Shenzhen as part of the city's "motorcycle ban". The Shenzhen-based newspaper says that in April...
28 Jul 09		Shenzhen monk sues businessman over unpaid loan » Shanghai Daily THE former abbot of Hongfa Temple sued a businessman who borrowed and failed to return 1.2 million yuan (US$176,471). The case has aroused public suspicion as to how a monk had saved so much money, South Metropolis...
11 Jul 08		The blog of the cop killer » Danwei Daily SunshineJuly 11, 2008 Today's Daily Sunshine, a newspaper published in Shenzhen, printed on its front page a photo of Yang Jia, the 27-year-old man who murdered six police officers in Shanghai on July 1. The picture is grabbed from Yang's MySpace...
12 Jan 09		Bird nest smuggling ring busted in Shenzhen » Danwei Daily SunshineJanuary 9, 2008 Customs officers in Shenzhen have recently busted a bird nest smuggle ring. The smuggled goods involved in the case are valued at over 700 million yuan, according to today's Daily Sunshine, a Shenzhen newspaper. The...
05 Jun 08		Your guide to the gaokao » Danwei Pengcheng Daily vs. The Beijing News, June 5, 2008 Pengcheng Daily (彭城晚报) is a commercial evening newspaper run by the Xuzhou Daily. As in other cities with a long and glorious history (6,000 years, in this case), the paper uses an older name of ...

« Today's Stories