Author Archives: Jeremy Goldkorn

Gome sues jailed founder Huang Guangyu

The New Express, August 6, 2010 Guangdong’s New Express leads with a top headline about a possible three day holiday during the Asian Games set to take place in Guangzhou later in the year. The large picture shows jailed businessman … Continue reading →

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Aliens pick on Bosnian man, China kills national treasure

Apple Daily is now publishing English versions of its animated news features (see earlier post for more); this one features the death by gassing of panda Quan Quan and aliens picking on a Bosnian man.

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Darth Vader Steve Jobs in Apple Daily animation

Next Media, publisher of Apple Daily in Taiwan and Hong Kong, has become famous for it news animations of events like Tiger Wood’s car crash and fight with his wife and the failed crotch bomb. Above is Next Media’s take on Steve Jobs and the iPhone antenna affair.

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Google & CIA invested data mining company looks at Hu Jintao

A company invested in by both Google and the CIA analyzes Hu Jintao through his travel history.

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The Chinese Internet reports on Nanjing factory explosion

Old and new media reporting on the deadly blast at a chemicals factory in Nanjing.

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You say guoyu, I say putonghua

Dodolook, a girl from Guilin whose online videos became famous in China in 2006, is still around. In this new video, she compares Mandarin vocabulary as spoken in Taiwan with that of the Mainland.

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China blogs in English – a podcast

A podcast about English language blogs about China.

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“Naked officials” get light restrictions

The Beijing Times headlines today’s newspaper with the story running at the top of Xinhua’s Chinese language website and on a number of papers around the country: the government’s new rules to deal with “naked officials”, i.e. government officials whose family have emigrated to another country and who are therefore considered likely to flee China once they have saved enough money from corrupt practices such as embezzlement and bribery.

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Floods and 20 million in Beijing, but not much about the oil spill

Typhoons and flooding in the south, but not oil slicks, are on many Chinese newspapers front pages today.

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Transvestites and transsexuals of Beijing, part 2

The second installment of Sexy Beijing’s program about transgendered life in the capital. See Part 1.

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