Category Archives: Danwei Picks

Leaving the sea behind

Fishermen leaving the shore; Prank definitions for chengguan; ethnic prejudice vs. Tibetans; India vs. China in Africa; Terminal 3 is big, says Imagethief.

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The father of hybrid rice looks at grain stores

Empty grain stores; Update from Lhasa; Namibia complains about China; New Zealand free trade; China Eastern strike; Pearl Buck

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Minting money without a license

Tencent hits quarterly targets with virtual currency; water woes on the western border; Taiwan elections; a journalist’s odyssey in Lanzhou; Xinjiang riots.

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The quest for the Olympic flame

Doping with TCM; the Olympic torch comes; rice supplies sufficient? Liuzhou builds mansions for civil servants.

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The rebirth of rural cooperatives

TEO on rural cooperatives; bad juju in Xinhua commentaries; Adidas underpays its workers; rice prices jump; the 1959 riots.

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Western media shenanigans

Google ads on sanlunche; China for Dummies; western media on China and on Africa; Tibet and the environment; Chen Liangyu at trial; weather manipulation.

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