Author Archives: Eric Mu

CNN apology not accepted

The Beijing News (新京报): The conflict between China’s Foreign Ministry and CNN wages on.

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Goons and thugs

In the Beijing Youth Daily (北京青年报), China’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu demands that CNN and its host Jack Cafferty apologize.

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Expensive resignation

Zheng Zhihong (郑志宏), a airliner pilot, was judged by court to pay his employer, China Eastern Airlines, 1.4 million yuan in compensation to end his work contract.

The China Eastern Airline asked for 12.57 million yuan from Zheng to compensate the training cost that has been spent on him.

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40 million new poor

China raised the poverty line from annual income of 1067 RMB to 1300. The change of the measurement caused a two-fold growth of China’s poor people: from 40 million to 80 million.

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Two terrorist plots foiled

Police have thwarted two terrorist plots targeting Olympic Games recently

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Eat my meat

Eye catching adverts for a steak restaurant in Wangfujing in Beijing.

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Mirror Media

Clean hands and magazine covers This article and the photographs are by guest contributor David Drakeford. Yue Lu is a trendy mid-price Beijing restaurant owned by the highly successful ‘cynical realist’ painter Fang Lijun (方力钧) who is best known for … Continue reading →

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Go Go Torch

people pose with a banners bearing “Go Go Torch” and “Bless Olympic”, “Come on Beijing”

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A battle to the death for the Nansha islands

Elite Reference (青年参考) reports on remarks from Rear Admiral Amable Tolentino regarding the Spratly islands.

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Olympic torch “returns triumphantly” to Paris

The big photo on the front page shows the heavily guarded Olympic torch passing the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.

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