Category Archives: Internet

They’re at it again: the boys of Xinhua try to lighten up your Monday with a photo essay titled Top 7 perfect female figures in world. If you want more serious reading, try these opinion pieces that denounce the hysterical … Continue reading →

From the website of Lamar Alexander, a Republican U.S. senator from Tennessee: MAY 26 – With the United States at the threshold of a new era in foreign policy, with the People’s Republic of China emerging as a major economic … Continue reading →

Two headlines: Xinhua: Battles won on drugs, but war rages on Taipei Times: China admits drug war is failing

According to Beijing Morning Post 北京晨报, Microsoft held a press conference for its MSN business in the Beijing Hotel. It was said to be the most extravagant press conference in China’s IT industry in the last five years. At the … Continue reading →

Lastminute.com is a British website that sells air tickets, holiday packages, theater tickets and such stuff. Someone posting on Chinese-forums.com is asking contributors to that forum for help translating their name into Chinese. Does this means that Lastminute.com is planning … Continue reading →

According to the New York Daily News, a man named “Jin Lin, 23, was charged with first-degree murder yesterday in the bloody slayings” of siblings Sharon and Simon Ng. Simon was writing a blog entry when the alleged murderer entered … Continue reading →

Beijing is a city of many noises, but the whirring of helicopter blades is not one of them. This is usually said to be because the government does not like anyone flying over the leaders’ residential compounds at Zhongnanhai. This … Continue reading →

New York Times op-ed columnist Nicholas D. Kristof seems to be getting a little overexcited by the potential of the Internet to foment dissent and challenge the status quo. Kristof’s latest column discusses Yuluncn.com, “the Web site of a self-appointed … Continue reading →

The banner above is at the top of China Jiangsu Net’s home page. The characters mean “Vanguard of the era; Maintain Communist Party members’ progressive education”. According to the ‘About’ page, China Jiangsu Net is “Jiangsu Province’s largest important website, … Continue reading →