Tag Archives: Beijing

Rise in China’s Aging Poses Challenge to Beijing

Posted on September 10, 2012 by Bette Ha

NYT DIDI KIRSTEN TATLOW September 10, 2012 Forty minutes’ drive east of Beijing in Yanjiao, a town just inside the border of neighboring Hebei Province, a vast care facility for the elderly is rising in green fields, part of a … Continue reading →

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A cultural revolution to make London sit up and take notice

Posted on June 26, 2012 by Hong Zhang

Marina Hyde in Beijing The Guardian, Tuesday 12 August 2008 Jiao Bingcheng is hanging upside down, virtually in a splits position, from a set of monkey bars. Building up his swing, he pivots 180 degrees, draws his legs together, and … Continue reading →

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Challenges for Asia as It Grows Old

Posted on March 28, 2011 by Bette Ha

NYT ALAN WHEATLEY March 28, 2011 BEIJING — If demography is destiny, as the French philosopher Auguste Comte put it, then Asia faces daunting challenges in the coming decades.

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