Beijing forces migrant workers from their homes

Beijing (CNN)Modern Beijing was built on the backs of low-paid migrants like Zhao Guihua.

The 50-something cook and cleaner is one of thousands of people critics say have been forced from their homes in the past two weeks as part of a drive by the municipal government to shut down what it claims is unsafe and overcrowded housing. Now homeless, she's selling all her possessions and preparing to return to her village -- hundreds of miles away in Henan province in central China.

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For sale: Chinese real estate

China has relaxed rules on property sales to foreigners, in a move seen as aimed at boosting the country’s real estate sector amid a slowing economy. [International Business Times]

China Blames Fed For Market Rout

Xinhua reports: The China central bank blames wide-spread expectations of a Fed rate hike in September for the global market rout... demanding The Fed "remain patient."

The Law of Gravity impacts the Chinese stock market

The 40-a-day habit in China

Breathing Beijing’s air is the equivalent of smoking almost 40 cigarettes a day http://t.co/CSBHo2pC9J pic.twitter.com/bzj5wksgC0

— The Economist (@EconAsia) August 20, 2015

China is taking on water

Beijing, China’s landlocked and generally dusty capital, “now has sea views". Why the floods? http://t.co/BXvdnJ5dDF pic.twitter.com/pblZOccvCy

— The Economist (@TheEconomist) August 13, 2015

Google ‘Alphabet’ Website Not at all Live in China

The new Google holding company Alphabet, unveiled Tuesday, will own Google and other companies.

The website for Alphabet is: www.abc.xyz.

The site currently contains letter from co-founder Larry Page and a link to Google. China blocked all access to the website within 12 hours of it going live. GreatFire.org, a monitor of Internet censorship in the Asian country, says that the Alphabet website is “100% blocked.”