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Author Archives: Alice Xin Liu
Spring Festival travel fever begins; Ministry of Transport responds to “toll-fee incident”
The case of Shi Jianfeng has been in papers a lot lately. A reporter from the Beijing News tried to get a response from a high official in the Transport Ministry (交通部). First, the issue of Beijing traffic jams is addressed:
Posted in Front Page of the Day
Tagged highway tolls, Shi Jianfeng, Spring Festival Rush, The Beijing News, Time Square
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Toll judges fired and suspended
Shi Jianfeng was sentenced to life in prison for evading toll charges 2,361 times when he drove on the Zhengzhou－Yaoshan highway. After internet uproar and a claim by his brother that it was actually him, the Pingdingshan Intermediate People’s Court issued a retrial. Today, media such as the Southern Metropolis Daily, points to Lou Yanwei, and Hou Xiaokong, both dismissed from their posts, and vice president of the court Ren Jianjun was suspended.
Posted in Front Page of the Day
Tagged Pingdingshan Intermediate Court, Shi Jianfeng
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Zhang Neixian’s 100% Strawberry
f 100% Strawberry is just a simple porn movie, then there’s no point for me to stay in this field. I don’t need to worry about censorship, because there is nothing extreme in the film. Also don’t tell me that I am poisoning youth, kids nowadays mature very early, look what they are showing on TV these days? They don’t need me as a channel to be poisoned.
Posted in Video
Tagged 100% Strawberry, independent DV, Mizuki Kawashita, Zhang Neixian
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One-legged villagers on the Sino-Vietnamese border
Journalist Yang Fu (杨赋) writes about the old rural folk who fought on the China-Vietnam border. The old soldiers live at Yunnan province’s Wenshan, Funing county, Tianpeng town, Sharenzhai village. Because they stepped on a landmine on the border with Vietnam they because famous as the “87 villagers who were left with 78 legs because of a land mine.”
Posted in Front Page of the Day
Tagged City Times, disability, Vietnam China border
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Pallavi Aiyar’s Chinese Whiskers
Pallavi Aiyar’s first novel, Chinese Whiskers, a modern fable set in contemporary Beijing, will be published in January 2011. Aiyar currently lives in Brussels where she writes about Europe for the Business Standard. Below she gives permissions for an excerpt.
Posted in China Books
Tagged China books, Chinese Whiskers, Pallavi Aiyar
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Prices for food and petrol neck-to-neck in Boston and Hangzhou
On microblog and news portals an interesting comparison is being drawn: Prices in Boston and China. A netizen Wang Pei (王佩) conducted a test of prices for different produce in China with its counterpart in Boston and found results to be alarming. Apart from vegetables, meats all cost more in China. Here is her list of produce:
CCTV, illuminated
The main picture shows the new CCTV tower lighting up at 11pm last night, from the east side, lights shone to illuminate the building.
Posted in Front Page of the Day
Tagged CCTV, forced demoltion, The Beijing News
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Mentally disabled sent to work in Xinjiang causes uproar
A series of disturbing photographs have been passing around the internet: mentally disabled men from Sichuan are being sent to Xinjiang to do manual labor. The Chongqing Business News reports this today, as well as the Tibet Business Daily.
Posted in Front Page of the Day
Tagged children's clothing, Chongqing Business News, labor, mentally ill, quality, Xinjiang
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Xiangfan city changes its name to Xiangyang
The city of Xiangfan (襄樊) in Hubei province has been renamed Xiangyang (襄阳) － the change is official in today’s Xiangyang Daily rather than yesterday Xiangfan Daily. The paper reports yesterday’s events, which include the taking down of the old Xiangfan People’s Government sign and adding the new Xiangyang sign (main picture). They received approval for the change on December 2.
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Tagged Xiangfan, Xiangyang, Xiangyang Daily
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