Author Archives: Jeremy Goldkorn

Family murder and arson

Today’s Beijing Times top headline is a weather story: “Beijing to welcome coldest week this winter — coldest temperature to go below -10ºC, Thursday and Friday maximum -2ºC”. The rest of the paper is a smorgasbord of contemporary Chinese life.

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Rupert Murdoch and wife Wendi separated?

In The Daily Sunshine, a photo of Rupert Murdoch and his wife Wendi Deng, headlined “Rupert Murdoch and Wendi Deng said to have separated — Deng and 100-year-old mother-in-law do not get along”.

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China blogger conference 2009

Danwei comrades attended the 2009 China Bloggers Conference in Lianzhou, eastern Guangdong where we interviewed prominent bloggers. Much of the talk was about the Great FireWall and Twitter.

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Let’s end the recession

Danwei is pleased to announce our new recruitment site for China’s media, communications and creative industries at DanweiJobs.com.

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Temporary residence permits to become residence permits

The Beijing government is changing ‘temporary residence permits’ to ‘residence permits’, but it’s unclear if this will have any effect on migrants who live in the city.

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China: The inevitable next global power?

Foreign Policy magazine has compiled a list of ‘top 100 global thinkers‘. They got 63 of them to participate in a survey about global issues.

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Police arrest football match fixers

Today’s Beijing News‘ top story and large graphic is about the arrest of at least four men suspected by police on suspicion of football (soccer) match fixing and arranging illegal gambling.

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Online video and PR in China

Blogger and PR executive Will Moss on social media, online video and PR in China.

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Saturday Night Live on Obama visit

American comedy show Saturday Night Live‘s take on Obama’s visit to China.

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The case of the missing Obama front page

The Southern Weekly, one of China’s more aggressively investigative newspapers, were the only print media outlet to get an interview with Obama. Central government controlled Xinhua and CCTV did not get one-on-one interviews with the American president.

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