Category Archives: Newspapers

Xiamen demonstration today – live reporting on blogs and video sites

PX demonstrations in Xiamen today Haicang PX is the name of a chemical factory plant currently being built in Xiamen in Fujian Province. Approved by the central government, Haicang PX is being developed with an investment of 10 billion yuan. … Continue reading →

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The Family will talk to Rupert

The Wall Street Journal reports:

Dow Jones & Co.’s 125-year history as an independent media company could be nearing an end.

The Bancroft family, which controls 64% of the company’s voting power, said in a statement late yesterday that it would meet with Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. to discuss its $5 billion bid for Dow Jones, publisher of The Wall Street Journal. The family also said it would consider other bidders and options for the company.

The statement also noted that the Bancroft family has decided that ‘the mission of Dow Jones may be better accomplished in combination or collaboration with another organization, which may include News Corp’.

Danwei recently published a letter from most of the Journal‘s China journalists asking the Bancroft family to turn down Murdoch’s bid.

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Strong opinions – Can the U.S. guarantee food safety in China?

Lian Yue (连岳) is a popular blogger and journalist. Below is a translation from a recent column in the Southern Metropolis Daily (南方都市报), about food safety in China.

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Homeowners beaten on the front page

Cover of The Beijing News (新京报) shows guards savagely beating homeowners.

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Superstitious cadres?

David Drakeford writes about a Southern Weekly (aka Southern Weekend) survey that found a whole mess of superstitious cadres.

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Kids’ news from before the revolution

China Children’s Times (中国儿童时报) from Tu Guowen (涂国文).

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The Times to Murdoch-bashers: We’re doing fine

Below is the text of a letter from Robert Thomson, editor of The Times of London, to Jim Ottaway, whose family founded Ottaway Newspapers, now owned by Dow Jones. This letter is in connection with various complaints about Rupert Murdoch’s … Continue reading →

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Wall Street Journal China bureau to Murdoch: stay away!

Rupert Murdoch’s recent $5 billion bid to buy Dow Jones is causing some discomfort at the China bureau of that company’s subsidiary The Wall Street Journal

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GAPP newspaper pirates blogger

Wang Xiaofeng erupts at China Press and Publishing Journal stealing one of his essays.

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Bandit chicken in Hunan

A restaurant in Xiangfan, Hubei (湖北省襄樊市) is called ‘West Hunan Bandit Chicken’ (湘西土匪鸡)

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