Category Archives: Internet

It seems that Sina.com and People’s Daily Internet bulletin board discussions about Zhao Ziyang have been shut down. But there is a huge number of comments to a short post about Zhao’s death on the popular blog platform Cnblog.org. Most … Continue reading →

Misguided headchoppers in Iraq have kidnapped eight Chinese citizens. Xinhua reports: The eight kidnapped persons are ordinary Chinese citizens who went to Iraq on individual basis to seek jobs by themselves in the country, [Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman] Kong Quan … Continue reading →

From Tokyo-based design blogger Jean Snow:

The New York Times has an AP report saying that China’s Minister of Commerce gave outgoing US Secretary of Commerce a 70% grade for his work over the last four years. The pointed comments came as Evans, who is due … Continue reading →

You gotta be careful who you do business with. Xinhua reports: A Chinese billionaire was sentenced to death for hiring his brother and cousins to murder his business partner in 2003… …Yuan Baojing, former president of Beijing-based Jianhao Group, together … Continue reading →

Regular readers will know that Danwei.org has nothing against girlie pictures, but we have to ask: Is it proper for the state-owned Xinhua news agency to be publishing stuff like this photo essay called Charming Backs, especially when all the images … Continue reading →

A tight-lipped statement from Xinhua about reformist politician Zhao Ziyang who has been under house arrest since 1989: Physical condition of Zhao Ziyang stabilizes Zhao Ziyang has lately suffered from an illness recurrence and his physical condition has stabilized after … Continue reading →

In the run up to Spring Festival, it seems the editors of state-owned news agency Xinhua’s website are upping the babe factor: Zhang Mi: Chinese chocolate beauty (ripped from the China Daily) Ashanti

The China Daily has published an article titled “Coming soon: Television via the Internet”. IPTV refers to TV broadcasting services based on Internet protocol, under which subscribers to the services can watch TV on a computer screen. IPTV offers both … Continue reading →

… on the state-owned Xinhua New Agency’s website of course. The images seems to be scanned from a calendar.