Category Archives: Newspapers

Rumors and follow-up for Tianjin bus incident

Since Monday rumors have been flying about the cause of the incident, including the suspect’s brother iterating that Zhang Yimin, the suspect, reported that his wife and daughter had been kidnapped to the bathing center opposite his residential complex. Today, The Beijing News follows up with interviews with neighbors and a call-in reader who wanted to verify some details in their earlier report.

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Two choices for news in the Guangzhou Daily

The Guangzhou Daily wraps its stodgy party organ cover design in a flashy wrapper to compete with the commercial tabloids.

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Newspapers back on Beijing subways

Beijing Times reports on the resolution to the ‘newspapers-in-subways’ controversy.

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How to run a good newspaper: don’t cause trouble

The editor in chief of a party daily in Guangdong has some thoughts about how to run a newspaper.

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Rich-poor gap: Poor pays?

Ralph Jennings posts a letter he received when he was working as an agony uncle for a Chinese newspaper: “I’m a freshman at a university in Nanjing. Recently, some of my roommates’ parents went to see them with a lot of new clothes and food.”

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New waste incineration technology: Parents and kids act to get rid of pollution

Today The Beijing News reported that parents in the Panyu district had received instructions that their children will be take part in a “performance,” acting out their support for the incineration project.

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Dorm storm: Share and beware

Ralph Jennings posts a letter he received when he was working as an agony uncle for a Chinese newspaper: “Last term, a student was killed by one of his roommates because of disputes when playing cards.”

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The highly educated chengguan might be no better than the neighborhood committee auntie

The Beijing Youth Daily reported that the Chengguan (the para-police force who are responsible for “cleaning” the streets in cities) in Hefei, Anhui province, are recruiting university-degree level employees. Yesterday the paper ran a letter-editorial from Anhui province about the move.

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“I don’t want to be compared! We are different!”

Letters to an agony uncle: A mother can be trouble enough. She insists on study over play. She’s always hounding the kid to pass some test. She censors dates and mates. But add to that a failure, minor as it may be, that sparks Mom’s sense of do-die-or-be-killed competition.

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Death, seldom spoken, visits in writing

“I wonder if I committed suicide whether I would be able to see my great father once more.”

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