Tag Archives: SMS

The government encourages you to send positive text messages

Positive text messages that reflect the true spirit of Chinese culture and civilization. Cover from Economic Daily, article from Southern Weekly.

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Tax invoice spam

Chinese Mobile phone spam in 2008.

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Selling out patient privacy to the milk industry

The Mirror describes how companies buy personal information about pregnant women from hospitals so they can market to them directly.

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Earthquake relief: Donate via SMS?

An SMS donation campaign for the Sichuan earthquake?

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The text message as satire

Satirical mobile phone text messages.

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Focus Media apologizes for mobile phone spam

Beijing TimesMarch 20, 2008 Beijing water delivery tricycles must be sealed The large headline is about new rules in Beijing that pedal-powered tricycles used to deliver large bottles of distilled and mineral water for drinking must put the bottles in … Continue reading

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The horrors of SMS messaging

Naraka 19 (地狱第19层), based on the Cai Jun (蔡骏) novel, gets neutered by SARFT.

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Farming out the annual success story

Writer calls up a company offering to produce annual reports for other companies.

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The meaning(lessness) of “Super Voice Girl”

Writing in Sunday’s Legal Mirror, Li Yu performs a postmortem on the ‘Supergirl’ (the “Mengniu Sour Yogurt Super Voice Girl” American-Idol-style TV show) phenomenon:

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