Category Archives: Internet

China Daily and Sohu have started a joint-venture English language website. Have a look at China Daily, and then go to the new China Daily Sohu English. Just what China needs: another dumbed-down, humorless English language news source. The China … Continue reading →

Xinhua is developing a certain style of its own, as you can see from these images, which were taken from one of the state-owned news agency’s many fashion photo specials. On Xinhua’s site these images are captioned “from Spring 2005 … Continue reading →

Google News is now available in Chinese, in P.R.C., Hong Kong and Taiwan flavors. Amazingly enough, all three versions are currently accessible from Beijing. How long can it last?

China Digital News has a report claiming that QQ, China’s most popular chat software, is hard-coded to censor certain words. There is a long list of words which are a no-no on QQ. About 15% of the words are related … Continue reading →

The China Daily reports: China Wednesday raised the price of refined oil products for the first time in three months to reflect the oil price spike on the international market. The image is from the China Daily’s website and shows … Continue reading →

Pacific Epoch editorial summary: Yahoo! and Sina are secretly negotiating about the possibility of a merger, reports West China City Daily quoting an unnamed source. The insider said that negotiations have gone beyond preliminary discussions. According to the insider, after … Continue reading →

This is what’s on Xinhua’s English-language website, today the 22nd of August, 2004: Top stories on the homepage are: Birth centenary of Deng Xiaoping commemorated China’s top leaders and representatives from all walks of life gathered in Beijing Sunday to … Continue reading →

This is image is from Ziboy, a superb Beijing photoblog by an artist and photojournalist named Wen Ling. Ziboy is frequently updated with photos of people just living their lives in Beijing: young women eating noodles, bored security guards, odd … Continue reading →

What the hell is going on at Celestial Nanny Central? In the midst of a so-called ‘war on porn’, Playboy magazine’s website is no longer blocked on the Mainland.