Author Archives: Joel Martinsen

Deadly transport accidents

A train derails, and a bus crashes.

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Baidu vs. Google: in search of accessible, useful results

Maomy at Oh My Media searches for software and finds that Baidu’s results are less relevant and more out of date than Google’s.

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A volunteer’s shuttered blog: follow-up

Global Times reports on Eckart Loewe; New Weekly says he turned down an interview because of government criticism.

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Xinjiang media on the Xinjiang support package

A sixteen-page special supplement to the Xinjiang Metropolis Daily.

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Volunteering without a license

Eckart Loewe shuts down his blog after receiving warnings to avoid the media.

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Observations on the mainland media

Fang Kecheng comments on Chinese journalism.

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Safe, safe school children

School security in Guangzhou comes equipped with helmets and riot shields.

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Huang Guangyu behind bars

When the Gome founder gets 14 years in prison for a massive insider trading scandal, the mainland media imagines him locked up.

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Fuzhou establishes a perimeter around its schools

“Three withouts” are supposed to be chased away from schools in Fuzhou, according to the Southeast Express. But what sort of people are they?

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Expo 2010 and other stories from Shanghai

At Shanghai Scrap, Adam Minter covers the scrap trade, Catholicism in China, and most recently, the Shanghai World Expo and the pitiful United States pavilion.

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