Category Archives: Danwei Noon Report

SCMP follies and sacked vice mayors

Some China newsbites from the Net today: • Asia Sentinel: Top Editor Forced to Resign at South China Morning Post The turmoil inside Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post continued Monday with the forced resignation of the paper’s business editor, … Continue reading

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Confuciuan confusion

Danwei Noon Report is a daily roundup of new and old media coverage about China from Chinese and English sources. This report was compiled by Joel Martinsen, Bill Zhang and Jeremy Goldkorn. Will the real Confucius please stand up Confucius … Continue reading

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Tanks in the seat of power

Coup in Thailand; German dude dresses as a terracotta warrior.

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Bruno Wu and Yang Lan in the press again

Danwei Noon Report is a daily roundup of new and old media coverage about China from Chinese and English sources. Bill Zhang contributed to this report. Oriana Fallaci meets Deng Xiaoping in 1980 – see Xinhua story Sun Media profile … Continue reading

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Why Feng Xiaogang shot such a lame Banquet

Feng Xiaogang’s ‘The Banquet’ gets the spoof treatment, SARFT criticizes Lou Ye’s aesthetic sensibility after banning him for five years, The Opposite End of China talks about progress in Xinjiang, and Wang Xiarou writes about bathhouses.

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Leslie’s not dead — he’s become a mountain hermit

Song Zude claims that Leslie Cheung didn’t commit suicide on 1 April. Wen Jiabao boasts about China’s free flow of information.

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Hunan TV’s new publicity stunt

Hunan TV has naked girls with eggs, Beijing gets a safety makeover, Olympic rowing looks to reality TV for a coxswain, Ogilvy acquires Black Arc real estate advertising, and Hu Jintao gets a weepy caricature.

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Rui’an protests documented online

Danwei Noon Report is a daily roundup of new and old media coverage about China from Chinese and English sources. High school blues Videos of Rui’an protests Short videos of clashes between protesters and armed police in Rui’an are circulating … Continue reading

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Three Gorges movie wins Golden Lion

Still Life (三峡好人) by Jia Zhangke (贾樟柯), and Xinhua’s buisness wire service regulations.

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Actress accuses CCTV director on blog

Danwei Noon Report is a daily roundup of new and old media coverage about China from Chinese and English sources. Xiao Qiong’s not happy Yet another blog scandal Shanghai blogger Bingfeng reports on yet another blog scandal in which an … Continue reading

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