Author Archives: Jeremy Goldkorn

Remarks by Timothy Geithner at the Central Party School in Beijing

Timothy Geithner’s remarks at the Central Party School in Beijing.

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The day Ai Weiwei learned about Twitter

Artist and reformed journalist Chris Gill has posted a recording of an interview with Ai Weiwei to his website Shanghai Eye.

During the interview, Gill introduces Ai to Twitter, apparently for the first time. Ai is now China’s most famous and probably most active Twitter user.

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World Link collapsed language school case in court

The China Daily has an update about a collapsing language school mentioned in Danwei’s earlier report on foreign run schools and their fleeing bosses.

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Commerce official Guo Jingyi convicted: fallout from Huang Guangyu

The fallout from the conviction of Huang Guangyu begins: a high ranking official from Ministry of Commerce is sentenced to death, with a two year reprieve.

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No newspapers

No newspapers: Peking University journalism students get their news online.

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Dodgy CCTV journalism and map clampdown

Another crack down on maps by seven government departments; CCTV takes the chance to give Google and a blogger a slap in the face.

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School knife attacks and syphilis

A podcast on the recent spate of knife attacks at Chinese schools, and the starnge resurgence of a curable, preventable sexually transmitted disease.

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The hydra-like blogger C. Custer

The hydra-like C. Custer translates and blogs at China Geeks, China / Divide and ChinaSmack.

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Richard Li and Rupert Murdoch to join forces against Bloomberg?

A pseudonymous blogger who apparently has some inside sources sent the following link to Danwei: Taking aim at Bloomberg, Hong Kong Billionaire Richard Li and Rupert Murdoch join forces

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Government push for news media company IPOs

The Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the China Securities Regulatory Commission are actively pushing the listing of ten news websites.

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