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Sensitive words, or prudish editors?

Southern Metropolis Weekly bowdlerizes its list of top blog articles.

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Time Warner and Rupert Murdoch, we’re coming to get you

But we’ll start humbly. Today, Danwei TV launches on its own website: danwei.tv. The site still needs tweaking. As soon as we can, we are also going to add different video formats including iTunes podcast subscription for video iPods. Please … Continue reading →

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Technorati not blocked in China

Technorati.com is functioning again for users in China. Was it a Nanny problem or a Technorati problem? Who knows? And why is the New York Times homepage still behaving strangely? Who knows? Also in the flaky Internet department, Youtube.com, which … Continue reading →

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Bilingual brands: Google China’s GuGe yarn continues

Google, the world’s largest media company, doesn’t seem draw much comfort from its activities in China. Earlier this year, Google copped some flak over the launch of Google.cn, a local version of its search engine that saves people the trouble of clicking through links that are inaccessible from China. A recent Keynote survey declared Google to be China’s “best search engine” as far as user experience goes, but the American giant is still trailing behind local rival Baidu, which controls roughly 50% of the local market.

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China’s talent shortage

The International Herlad Tribune published an interesting piece about the recruitment struggles of foreign companies in China. Selected quotes: …A recent McKinsey report, titled “Addressing China’s Looming Talent Shortage,” said surveys had shown that fewer than 10 percent of Chinese … Continue reading →

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Sexuality in China: Let’s Get It On!

Your place or mine? According to an article published in the print edition of today’s Legal Mirror, a recent series of official surveys performed on a sample of unmarried people in Beijing and Shanghai revealed that a large portion of … Continue reading →

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Technorati blocked in China?

Technorati.com, the favorite tagging and search site of many bloggers, seems to be blocked in China. Perhaps all the American blog coverage of Hu’s visit triggered a spike in Chinese readers interest in Technorati’s ‘China’ tag. Causing someone at Nanny … Continue reading →

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Newspapers in disguise

Some low-flying Chinese newspapers are sold inside-out to run more titillating headlines.

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Missing Chinese movies

260 Chinese movies were produced in 2005, but only 60 of them made it to screen. What happened to the rest?

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Heckled Hu

Crazy Far Loon woman If you’ve been watching CCTV, you won’t have seen the footage of Hu Jintao being heckled at the White House while he standing next to George W and speaking about China’s peaceful rise etc. However, this … Continue reading →

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