Category Archives: Newspapers

The Internet: crib sheet for the yellow press

The scandal sheet Scandals Exposed (丑闻揭秘), a low-rung publication also known as Time Weekly (时代周报).

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Death vans and rainmaking machines

Think twice before you step inside Two interesting articles by Calum MacLeod in USA Today: 1. China rolls out the big guns, aiming for a dry Olympics About the rain making technology used in Beijing and other parts of the … Continue reading →

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The great African shmoozefest

Wen Jiabao on a building in Cape Town Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao is in Africa on a seven nation tour, visiting Egypt, Ghana, Congo, Tanzania, Senegal, Angola and South Africa. Xinhua is reporting all the usual sentiments about friendly ties … Continue reading →

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South China Morning Post seeks obscurity on Internet

An email from the South China Morning Post arrived a few days ago: A personal message from Publisher Christopher Axberg: I would personally like to welcome you back to scmp.com, by inviting you to register for a complimentary 21-day trial. … Continue reading →

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Dancers on the cover of Beijing newspapers on a slow news day

Three Beijing newspapers ran similar front-page photos of fluff on Sunday, 11 June, 2006.

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Chinese businessman buys Arab TV station

Wenzhou entrepreneurs: going global The Shanghai Daily published a story today titled: Wenzhou businessman buys Arab TV station. Wenzhou is a city in Zhejiang whose natives are famous for the business acumen. Many of them have gone abroad in search … Continue reading →

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China Daily: Antiwave and CCTV

Excerpt from China Daily article ‘New forms of new media are in vogue’ by Raymond Zhou and Wang Zhuoqiong

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Michael Jackson and the Pedophile Party

Jacko in orphanage = Pedophile Party The China Daily reports: Pedophiles plan political party Dutch pedophiles are launching a political party to push for a cut in the legal age for sexual relations to 12 from 16 and the legalization … Continue reading →

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Ayigate: what have I done?

Danwei in The Beijing News Last week, I wrote a post about a page on a Shanghai tennis club’s website that stated rules for ayi‘s or domestic workers to use the club’s bus. I compared the rules to the segregation … Continue reading →

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Print and Internet media woes

China’s Internet portals are not allowed to gather their own news, so since the start of the dot com boom, they have republished news stories from state-owned news agency Xinhua, and from China’s thousands of newspapers. The newspapers have been … Continue reading →

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