Category Archives: Internet

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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China Businesscast: TongTong.com

In this episode of China Businesscast, I interview Guy and Terrance, two of the co-founders of TongTong.com, a social networking site in China meant to bring globally minded people in and outside of China together. This episode brings insight on … Continue reading →

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Sensitive

Sensitive issues from Wang Xiaofeng.

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Do you want to be Chinese?

Netease poll asking respondents to choose whether they’d be Chinese in their next life.

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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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Meng Guangmei and Toiletgate: The latest Chinese Internet swarm

Meng Guangmei dissing on China’s toilets The latest incident to outrage China’s Internet users is being dubbed ‘Toiletgate’ (厕所门) by some Chinese fourm posters. A Taiwanese model named Meng Guangmei (孟广美) who came to the Mainland ten years ago and … Continue reading →

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China Businesscast: Fritz Demopoulos, CEO Qunar.com

This episode kicks off a China Businesscast series on entrepreneurship in China. Fritz Demopoulos is CEO and co-founder of Qunar.com, a travel-focused vertical search engine. Fritz is a veteran China entrepreneur and has a lot of valuable insights about starting … Continue reading →

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PSB: Fines can be appealed

Danwei Noon Report is a daily roundup of new and old media coverage about China from Chinese and English sources. Today’s report is short and sweet Cutting down on dead tree use Fines can be appealed Sina.com reports that China’s … Continue reading →

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Assessing the media’s victory over FoxConn

Journalist Zhang Rui pours cold water on the Chinese media’s victory celebration over FoxConn’s 30-million-yuan suit.

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Printing the Internet

网事周刊, a new weekly from Southern Workers News that takes its content from the Internet.

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