Author Archives: Alice Xin Liu

Government double-speak about earthquakes and oil prices

The Sina microblog page of user Jiandansue has a widely distributed news items headline montage.

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Shanghai Composite Index falls as property is regulated

The Shanghai Composite index plummeted 150.01, or 4.8 percent, to close at 2,980.3, yesterday.

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Adult video star Aoi Sola writes to China fans on blog

On April 15, Aoi updated her Chinese blog with a piece for her Chinese fans, translated by a “friend from the Internet:”

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The Yushu earthquake on Chinese newspaper front pages

The earthquake of Yushu, Qinghai province that measured 7.1 on the Richter Scale and killed 618 people and counting dominates front pages today. Most of the newspapers showed victims being dragged out of the rubble.

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Yanqing forced demolition covered in detail

Special attention is given to another story on the right hand column (circled in red). A forced demolition in Yanqing (延庆), a suburb in northwest Beijing. Beijing Times devoted an entire page of report inside:

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AV actress entices Chinese netizens to go on Twitter

AOI Sora (also known as Sola Aoi) is a Japanese AV actress famous for her large breasts. She is also an award-winning actress who has appeared on mainstream Japanese TV as well as a Thai film.

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A call about the Yongsheng hotel in Gao’an, Jiangxi

Tiger Temple, online personality, citizen journalist and rights defender, wrote down a disturbing tale involving Yongsheng Hotel in Gao’an, Guangxi province.

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Taking dad to work for 6 years and other stories

On the front page of today’s Chongqing Morning Post is a plethora of eyeball-grabbing stories.

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Higher parking rates and capsule apartments

From 7am on April 1, parking fees for the western section of Zhongguancun (中关村西区), Xidan (西单), Financial Street (金融街) and other core non-residential districts (making 13 in all), will rise. This encompasses 70,000 parking spaces; half of these are underground, and around 3,000 ones are on the side of the road.

On bottom right, an interesting Q&A with an old man who has designed several “capsule apartments” by renovating rented property

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Kangxi is Coming: impressions on a popular Taiwan TV show

Dee Hsu (徐熙娣) presents a flagship entertainment show, Kangxi is Coming (康熙来了), produced under the company Gin Star Entertainment (金星娱乐), is shown on Taiwan Cti TV Monday to Friday at 10pm. The show has been shown attention by mainstream mainland media, and its presenters, Dee Hsu and Kevin Tsai (蔡康永) were on the cover of February’s Esquire (时尚先生) magazine.

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