Category Archives: Newspapers

Olympic torch and college entrance exams

Posted on 2004-06-08 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Today’s Front Page of The Day is from The Beijing News. The headlines are: Athens Olympic flame arrives in Beijing this morning Police cars busy for first college entrance exam day The photo shows students being checked against their photographs … Continue reading →

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East Weekend pulls a Janet Jackson on Shanghai

Posted on 2004-06-08 by Jeremy Goldkorn

East Weekend is a mainstream trash weekly newspaper published in Shanghai. Which makes it rather surprising to discover a nipple on its front cover. Mark Kitto sent in the image with the following comment: “Could not resist buying a copy … Continue reading →

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College entrance examinations, D-day and Reagan

Posted on 2004-06-07 by Jeremy Goldkorn

The Beijing Morning Post has today’s Front Page of The Day. The headlines are: 80% of Beijing senior school students’ eye sight is not so good Beijing’s 80 thousand high school students start college entrance examinations this morning Looking back … Continue reading →

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Steamy sporting summer

Posted on 2004-06-05 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Rundown of sports magazines in summer, 2004.

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A lot about water prices

Posted on 2004-06-04 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Today’s Front Page of The Day is from The Beijing News. The headlines are: Staggered water price will probably not be introduced in July – China Science Institute gets 6 new foreign academics (the photo shows Chinese academics from the … Continue reading →

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Miss Plastic Surgery?

Posted on 2004-06-03 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Two recent obsessions of the Chinese media – plastic surgery and beauty pageants – have come together: A young woman named Yang Yuan was thrown out of the Miss Intercontinental beauty pageant after the organizers discovered she had had cosmetic … Continue reading →

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Hu and science, 98 gasoline, Koolaid

Posted on 2004-06-03 by Jeremy Goldkorn

The People’s Daily wins today’s Front Page of the Day for its traditional long headline and photos of a dapper-looking Hu Jintao. The headlines are: The 12th China Science Institute academic conference and the 7th China Engineering Institute academic conference … Continue reading →

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Transsexual babe does not want to be China’s Harisu

Posted on 2004-06-03 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Pictured above is Harisu, who used to be a man and is now a successful model and actress in Korea. On the left is a scan from the weekend edition of the Beijing Daily Messenger, which is printed on pink … Continue reading →

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Britney’s breasts banned in China?

Posted on 2004-06-03 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Britney Spears is scheduled to perform in Beijing and Shanghai early next year. She has been put on notice by the old farts at the Culture Department that she must dress decently and must not flash too much flesh. The … Continue reading →

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Corruption, water prices, regret for arson

Posted on 2004-06-02 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Today’s Front Page of The Day is from the The Beijing News. The headlines are: Two Institutes [China Science Institute and China Engineering Institute] academicians conference opens today Zhou Zhengyi sentenced to 3 years imprisonment at first trial (The charges … Continue reading →

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