Author Archives: Eric Mu

Selling pirate DVDs can put you in jail

Posted on 2004-12-22 by Eric Mu

The hottest news in Beijing today is about intellectual property rights: Chinese courts will from now treat IPR infringements as a ‘major criminal offense’ rather than a minor one. The Supreme People’s Court and the Supreme People’s Procuratorate held a … Continue reading →

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What does this woman want?

Posted on 2004-12-21 by Eric Mu

It is unusual to see the same photo used in two different ads for different companies, but it just happened in Beijing. The real estate ad on the left was published in newspapers in April this year in Beijing. The … Continue reading →

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Macao celebrates 5th anniversary of its return to Chinese rule

Posted on 2004-12-20 by Eric Mu

The fifth anniversary of Macao’s return to Chinese rule did not attract much coverage in Beijing’s newspapers, but it was big news in the People’s Daily and on Xinhua. On the front page of today’s People Daily, two photos are … Continue reading →

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First snow in Beijing this year

Posted on 2004-12-17 by Eric Mu

The first snowfall of the winter in Beijing is always a big story in the media every year. It came a bit late this year. After inaccurate weather forecasts about the first snowfall twice this year, most newspapers became cautious … Continue reading →

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Police special forces in Beijing and Athens

Posted on 2004-12-16 by Eric Mu

Coincidentally, police special forces from both Beijing and Athens got quite a lot of media coverage today, in two different news stories. The photo on the front page of today’s Beijing Daily Messenger shows Beijing’s police special forces officers conducting … Continue reading →

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Sex talk show “The Mask” called off

Posted on 2004-12-15 by Eric Mu

Most Chinese media reported the news about cancellation of the TV sex talk show “The Mask” today. According to Xinhua: “The State Administration of Radio,Film and Television (SARFT) Tuesday called off “The Mask,” a sex TV talk show supposed to … Continue reading →

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6,000 neighbors did not stopping him dying

Posted on 2004-12-14 by Eric Mu

A photo of a four year-old boy named Doudou appeared on the front page of Beijing Daily Messenger today. His mother is an English teacher in a University of Beijing. On December 3, a website of the the residential area … Continue reading →

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67th anniversary of Nanjing Massacre

Posted on 2004-12-13 by Eric Mu

The commemoration of the Nanjing massacre is the theme for the front pages of most newspapers in Beijing today. Residents of Nanjing, capital city of East China’s Jiangsu province, held activities over the weekend to commemorate the massacre committed by … Continue reading →

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Fireworks blast and new rules to censor TV commercials

Posted on 2004-12-10 by Eric Mu

The biggest news in today’s papers is once again about an accident: a railway carriage with firecrackers exploded in Changsha, capital of central China’s Hunan Province on Thursday, injuring 18 workers who were repairing the rails at the site. Two … Continue reading →

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Genetically modified rice: conflict of interests for the main meal of 1.3 billion population

Posted on 2004-12-09 by Eric Mu

The front page story of today’s Southern Weekend (nanfang zhoumo) is a special report on the situation of genetically modified rice in China. On December 1 of this year, the Ministry of Agriculture held a secret meeting to discuss commercial … Continue reading →

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