Author Archives: Joel Martinsen

Legal activist discovers a hacked Gmail account

Teng Biao, an activist law professor, discovers that his Gmail account is secretly forwarding mail to another address.

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Google, Baidu, and wild speculation

Oriental Guardian puts Baidu’s hacking headline into a Google search box.

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MIIT considers a white-list of approved websites

MIIT may require government registration if a website desires to be accessible on the mainland.

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Heading off a run on cooking oil

The government dispels rumors that cooking oil is in short supply

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China’s vital role in Chinese science fiction

A publisher rejects Liu Cixin’s science fiction novel because it imagines a fictional world.

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UFOs in the Global Times

A story on international UFO research in the Chinese edition, and a few recent oddities from the English edition.

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The Storm Warriors is awesome. You just don’t realize it yet!

A full-page ad in today’s paper explains a few confusing things about the film.

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Messing around with public hearings

A public hearing on the price of water had ringers in the consumer delegation. Journalist Teng Yun argues that even conducted above-board, hearings are still useless.

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Cobalt-60 front page story removed from Southern Metropolis Daily

Cobalt-60 radiation source exposed for 48 days in Guangzhou; authorities recall front-page story.

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Shaanxi dairy repackages melamine-tainted milk powder

Arrests over rebranding of milk powder left over from last year’s scandal.

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