U.S. News: Confessions of a Chinese urban

"Los Angeles Times" reported on July 7, said Chinese urban management officers are often bullied by street vendors known, so they hate the Chinese people have long been no secret, but recently has appeared on the Internet by someone claiming to be an Urban people who write anonymous posts, he said his career has been contempt, ridicule he can not continue to do the job level. The poster said, our job is to communicate with those most vulnerable deal with, and further crowding them, so that conflict is inevitable, but not necessarily disadvantaged groups are innocent people on the illegal traders sympathy, to some extent makes the vulnerable to become a privilege, and we chased it into the most humble person.

Chinese Law Enforcement

The poster said his salary as a city management a little more than a thousand dollars per month, with the wages of construction workers almost. The report quoted the Hong Kong non-governmental organizations, "China Labour Bulletin," saying the Chinese inspectors have uniforms, but no real power, they have the responsibility to implement about 300 laws and regulations, but no one specifically told them how to implement these regulations. Urban management and law enforcement fines and confiscation of the means only, and these practices are most likely to lead to violent confrontation.China Labour Bulletin, said that if city management can get better training and higher pay, they may conflict with the street vendors would be less.

British newspaper How the Chinese Bohai Sea oil spill

British "Guardian" reported on July 7, said by ConocoPhillips and China National Offshore Oil Corporation on joint development of Bohai Penglai 19-3 oil field on June 4 was found to oil spills, but this was only until June 21 exposure, which broke through the microblogging or out, not from the official announcement. Government departments were initially played down the accident handling, until this week admitted, the sea pollution by oil to 840 square kilometers, equivalent to half the size of Greater London.

Reported that the Government recognized that this is by far the most serious of the Chinese oil spill, Greenpeace claimed that the size of oil spills than the government published 60 times larger. The report quoted the words of China's State Oceanic Administration, polluted waters has been reduced to four the lowest level of classification criteria.

Koreans no longer respect?

South Korea's elderly

United States, "Christian Science Monitor," July 7 reported that often heard people say, conservative Korean society in East Asia most people believe in the doctrine of Confucius, Korean social customs make Korea one of the few old world still be greatly respected place. But South Korea's two recent events have shown widespread attention, the country's social customs may be significant changes. One of the things that, in a subway train, a young man on an old sparring, because the elderly require that young people do not 翘起二郎腿, so their pants are dirty young foot rub.

Reported that a government survey data released this week seem to support the Korean argument respecting customs are changing. Seoul city government said the city's elderly abuse incidents in the past year increased by nearly 25%. The report quoted a cultural magazine editor in Seoul as saying that this phenomenon is due to South Korean young little knowledge of Western culture, they know that in Western countries, the relationship between young people and older people more informality and casual, and therefore this mistake with respect a traditional Korean customs opposite is "cool."