Category Archives: Internet

Danwei is a good socialist work unit and will be taking it easy during the May Workers’ Day week, so updates will be sporadic. As a special proletarian gift, enjoy a babe special courtesy of state-owned news agency Xinhua: Hong … Continue reading →

Robert D. Kaplan is one of the most interesting commentators writing on geo-political matters in the early 21st century. His essays and travel pieces about countries like Chad, Afghanistan and Sierra Leone are unsentimental accounts of screwed-up places, and how … Continue reading →

Xinhua: Beijing had its worst dusty air of the year Thursday [i.e.today], as the air quality index reached level five, the worst rating on a five-point scale. A sandstorm swept from northwest China to Beijing at about 4:00a.m., entered the … Continue reading →

The CCP – KMT lovefest continues at Xinhua: CPC, KMT reportedly to end hostilities formally (quoting Reuters report, in English) Loving Lian Zhan (Lien Chan) in the PRC (in Chinese) Meantime, Shanghai blogger Bingfeng is not impressed with his Taiwan … Continue reading →

The recent wave of popular anti-Japanese activism is over. Various organs of the government have made annoucements: In Beijing where students may be idealistic enough to participate in activities that might get them into trouble, a spokesman for the Ministry … Continue reading →

Under the title “China Locks in its Net-Citizenry”, Slashdot covers a March 1 press release announcing the licensing of a Singapore company, i-DNS, to register Chinese-language top-level domains (TLD). The Slashdot crowd handles it with the usual sensitivity they show … Continue reading →

Spring is sprung and state-owned news agency Xinhua’s photo editors are… publishing an underwear album of course! You can find this multi-page gallery of lingerie images here. If you want more Sinhua action, check out the photo essay stunning backs, … Continue reading →

Today Xinhua reports that Beijing will start construction of a new “International Exhibition Center” to supersede the old one (pictured) on the city’s East Third Ring Road. Naturally, the new one is going to be bigger and better and full … Continue reading →

What’s Ming is a blog written in English by a Chinese guy who seems to be a student at Tsinghua University. He has posted a review of the recent crackdown on that university’s popular SMTH Internet forum: And now, there … Continue reading →