Category Archives: Newspapers

Friday evening links

Posted on 2005-04-29 by Jeremy Goldkorn

The Financial Times: China bank chiefs hit at Communist party role “Two senior Chinese bank executives have made a provocative public call for the role of the ruling Communist party in financial institutions to be curbed.” Much of the article’s … Continue reading →

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News Report Used as Evidence in Court

Posted on 2005-04-28 by Joel Martinsen

Today’s Legal Mirror takes great delight in announcing that an article it printed last December was used as evidence in a trial that concluded this morning. In December, a 70-year-old woman was struck by a turning car as she was … Continue reading →

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Live in a bird’s nest for a month

Posted on 2005-04-27 by Tsingsong

Let’s put today’s big news aside and focus on gossip. So called “Performance art” becomes more and more popular, now its stage has already moved to Beijing’s streets. Today, most gossip columns of newspapers feature a story that a poet … Continue reading →

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It’s difficult to see Beijing clearly from Manhattan

Posted on 2005-04-26 by Jeremy Goldkorn

A chain of events: Act 1. The New York Times publishes an article titled ‘A Hundred Cellphones Bloom, and Chinese Take to the Streets’, a headline that combines two things of which non-Chinese newspaper editors can’t get enough, when talking … Continue reading →

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Civil servants can say “No”

Posted on 2005-04-25 by Tsingsong

China’s top legislature, the National People’s Congress, will vote on the Law on Civil Servants (government employees) in four days. The draft law includes the rights and responsibilities, governance, salary and fringe benefits of the 6 million civil servants in … Continue reading →

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Barmé on hard men

Posted on 2005-04-25 by Jeremy Goldkorn

AS the cardinals prepare to meet in conclave in Rome next week to decide on a new leader for the Catholic Church, it is salutary to consider the fate of another sclerotic organisation that avows a dogma equally out of kilter with the contemporary world…

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Self-censorship: the 2,000 pound rhinoceros on the dining table

Posted on 2005-04-25 by Jeremy Goldkorn

In sum, the Chinese government’s censorial authority in recent times has resembled not so much a man-eating tiger or fire-snorting dragon as a giant anaconda coiled in an overhead chandelier. Normally the great snake doesn’t move. It doesn’t have to. It feels no need to be clear about its prohibitions. Its constant silent message is “You yourself decide.”

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The Ministry of Public Security talks about anti-Japanese demonstrations

Posted on 2005-04-22 by Tsingsong

Most leading headlines of today’s newspapers are about announcements from the Ministry of Public Security. The spokesman of the Ministry expressed deep understanding of students’ patriotic passion, but he also suggested the students should not join any demonstrations without official … Continue reading →

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Actress age flap jumps from the web to print

Posted on 2005-04-21 by Joel Martinsen

Another week, another pointless showbiz scandal: Liu Yifei, this year’s darling of period TV serials, has been accused of faking her age. The allegations stem from a brief scene in the 1992 television series A Beijinger in New York, in … Continue reading →

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Li Zhaoxing’s report on Sino-Japan relations

Posted on 2005-04-20 by Tsingsong

According to People’s Daily, the Publicity Department and other five ministries and commissions co-held a meeting with total 3,500 people. The Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing made a report on the situation of Sino-Japan relations, and said we should trust that … Continue reading →

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