Author Archives: Eric Mu

Striking Chinese workers return from Africa

Over 400 striking Chinese workers returned home from Equatorial Guinea yesterday.

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Suicide blog lawsuit

Tianya.cn, daqi.com and a Chinese blog named Northward Imigrant Bird (北飞的候鸟) were sued by a man named Wang Fei (王菲) for publishing slandering posts that caused harm to him.

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Pilots on strike?

domestic airliners of China Eastern Airlines from Kunming returned to base without touching down on their destination airports

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Documentary screening: Children of the Stars

A documentary about the autism school and the kids is going to be screened

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Stopping plastic bags

Penalties for producing or using illegal plastic bags, start of the Olympic torch relay and other news from The Beijing News.

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Olympic flame arrives in Beijing

The Olympic flame arrived in Beijing this morning

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Anti-CNN, by the people and for the people

The formal major of Shanghai Chen Liangyu (陈良宇) was on trial in Tianjin. He was charged with taking bribes, abuse of power, and negligence.

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You are permitted to have a dog now

Low-income families in Beijing that receive aids from government can own mobile phones now.

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A petition to stop the ban on Tang Wei

This was originally found on 郝建 (a professer of 北影 and a movie critic)’s blog,

http://blog.sina.com.cn/haojianblog. It is no longer there now, but can still be found on various other websites.

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CCTV celebrities live it up

The Beijing News today.

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