Category Archives: Newspapers

Cops ask for volunteers to inform on drug dealers

Posted on 2006-12-06 by banyue

Mainland Infernal Affairs? According to today’s Beijing News, the capital’s police will hire about ten thousands of volunteers to prohibit drugs from now until June 26 2007, the ‘International Day Against Drugs’. Only people over the age of 18 can … Continue reading →

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Gay cruising in Dongdan

Posted on 2006-12-05 by Jeremy Goldkorn

A few days ago, Danwei remarked on a Beijing News article about Dongdan Park — the capital’s best-known gay pick-up spot — that did not actually mention this well known aspect of the park. Not everyone is so coy. Here … Continue reading →

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GAPP official: no public listings for newspapers

Posted on 2006-12-05 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Mure Dickie of the Financial Times interviewed Long Xinmin, a “minister at the press and publishing administration” who confirms that GAPP is against newspaper groups raising capital from the market. Nothing to do with the news you understand, it’s all … Continue reading →

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Tianya blogger hunts down reprint payments from newspapers

Posted on 2006-12-02 by Joel Martinsen

A Chinese blogger tries to get payment from newspapers that reprinted a blog post.

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Dancing around a sensitive issue in The Beijing News

Posted on 2006-11-30 by Joel Martinsen

The Beijing News does a feature on Dongdan Park that heavily hints at the park’s reputation as a place for cruising without mentioning sexuality a single time.

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SMS-gate II: High school edition

Posted on 2006-11-28 by Joel Martinsen

In a redux of the Qin Zhongfei case, two teachers in Anhui province get jailed on libel charges for sending an SMS to county leaders criticizing their principal.

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Follow the law, and subscribe to the army’s newspaper

Posted on 2006-11-22 by Joel Martinsen

Story from the PLA Daily urging subscribers to renew their subscriptions for 2007, in accordance with national regulations.

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SCMP scandal goes global

Posted on 2006-11-22 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Last week the Asia Sentinel reported on the troubles in the South China Morning Post newsrooms that started after the editor in chief Mark Clifford fired two senior editorial staff. The International Herald Tribune has published a story on the … Continue reading →

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South China Morning Post clamps down on spoofing

Posted on 2006-11-15 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Dot dour In a move eerily reminiscent of Chinese media regulators’ fruitless attempts to stop online video and Photoshop parodies (恶搞), the editor of the South China Morning Post has fired two senior editors for producing an in-house spoof of … Continue reading →

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Morality, history, and freedom of expression, as seen on TV

Posted on 2006-11-10 by Joel Martinsen

Culture wars: Yi Zhongtian (易中天) PK Cheng Junyi (成君忆) over morality and history.

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