Category Archives: Newspapers

Chemical tanker crashes

Accident becomes the hottest news today. At 6:50 pm of this Tuesday, a tank truck carrying 35 tons of liquefied chlorine ran out of control with a flat tire and rammed into a cargo truck on the Huai’an section of … Continue reading →

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Today’s template for newspaper front pages

Most newspapers in Beijing followed this template on their front pages today: Leading headline: College students can get married without the approval from schools; Front page photo: scenes of Indonesian earthquake disaster. In the past, the college students who got … Continue reading →

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KMT party leader visits mainland China

Chiang Pin-Kun, vice-chairman of the Taiwan-based Chinese Kuomintang party (KMT), visited the Guangzhou Huanghuagang Martyr Cemetery Tuesday morning. It is KMT’s first formal visit to the mainland since the group fled to Taiwan in 1949. Today the Chiang Pin-kun’s trip … Continue reading →

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Ms Hu Xiaolian: China’s new chief of foreign exchange

From the China Daily: China has appointed a woman as the new director of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE), a government source said yesterday. Hu Xiaolian, a central banker and formerly the assistant governor of the People’s Bank … Continue reading →

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Inspecting a dog market

Yesterday morning, Beijing police inspected an illegal dog market in Changping county. Most vendors were very scared, they tried many ways to escape: some ran as fast as they could, while some threatened the police by claiming their dogs were … Continue reading →

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Security plan for Beijing 2008 Olympics Games

Any news about the 2008 Olympics is popular in Beijing newspapers. Yesterday, Qiang Wei, the Beijing’s Deputy Party Secretary gave details of its Olympic security scheme, which will play an over-arching role in preparations for the sports gathering. The whole … Continue reading →

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Many voices in today’s newspapers

Different newspapers have different highlights in their leading headlines today. Junky tabloid Beijing Daily Messenger (left, click to enlarge) features a big photo showing a young guy who wanted to kill himself by jumping off a 15 meter-high outdoor billboard, … Continue reading →

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Muzzling the press or cleaning up?

There are three main entities that control media in China: – The Publicity Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (formerly the Propaganda Department); – State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT); – The General … Continue reading →

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Anti-corruption exhibition in Beijing

Most newspapers put pictures of an “anti-corruption exhibition” that opened in Beijing yesterday on their front pages. In the photo on the front page of The Beijing News (pictured left), a visitor stops in front of photos of Bi Yuxi, … Continue reading →

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China’s 50 Most Beautiful People

The Beijing News borrows a picture of Maggie Cheung from Cosmo for the cover of today’s Entertainment insert, “50 Most Beautiful People in China”. Ms. Cheung takes the top spot, with Takeshi Kaneshiro, Little S, Zhang Ziyi, and Liu Ye rounding out the top five in this exercise that is a conscious imitation of People magazine’s yearly rundown.

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