Category Archives: Media and Advertising

Beat the Nanny dot com

The URL says it all: Beatthenanny.com Found via Chinese Forums.

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Kim Jong Il and Hu, underwear and body painting

Not so ronery Xinhua’s lead headline this morning is: Hu’s Pyongyang visit successful: official. Excerpt: President Hu returned to Beijing Sunday morning after an official goodwill visit to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). During Hu’s visit, he had … Continue reading →

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The bad habits of Beijing

Nobody every says ‘sorry’.

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Fighting bird flu

Beijing Morning Post‘s cover. Today’s headlines are all about bird flu: how Avian Influenza is under control in China. According to the Ministry of Agriculture, the latest outbreak of bird flu, which killed 545 ducks and chickens in Central China’s … Continue reading →

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African Boots of Beijing in Milan

Beijing’s African footballers on the big screen in Italy Afrika United FC is a football team composed of African players who live in Beijing. The team members come from all over the continent: dreadlocked manager Sam is from Ethiopia, Coach … Continue reading →

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Warning! This article contains Sensitive Words

Wang Xiaofeng writes about Sina’s keyword filters.

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Li Bingbing magazine covers

Mousy Li Bingbing It often seems like China’s fashion magazines all collude to put a single model on that month’s covers. Sometimes it’ll be a wall of broad Hsu Chi smiles, or cover after cover of glamorous photos of Maggie … Continue reading →

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Recovering Taiwan

Beijing Youth Daily‘ cover features a picture of people visiting an exhibition on Taiwan opposing Japanese war atrocities at the National Museum. Yesterday, Beijing marked the 60th anniversary of the end of Japanese colonial rule over Taiwan in festivities meant … Continue reading →

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Bird flu and chicks in cages

Nude protests in Korea, bird flu in China

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Wikipedia to be unblocked this week?

The Nanny: does she care about your complaints? A Chinese blogger named shizhao writing on CNblog.org says that he has information that Wikipedia will be unblocked by Wednesday this week. He also has some suggestions for complaining about the Nanny’s … Continue reading →

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