Category Archives: Newspapers

Medical benefits, tax evading actress, more Three Represents

Posted on 2003-12-09 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Headlines from Chinese press DECEMBER 9 NEWSPAPERS The Beijing News 新京报 Retirement medical reimbursement to increase 退休人员医疗报销拟提高 Retired people on state pensions will be able to reimburse higher amounts of medical expenses and a greater range of medicines from January … Continue reading →

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Blood transfusion conmen running wild and some really meaningful announcements about ideological work

Posted on 2003-12-08 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Headlines from Chinese press DECEMBER 8 NEWSPAPERS The Beijing News 新京报 Blood transfusion conmen run wild because of blood donation target 血头猖獗缘于献血指标 There is currently a blood donation drive. Many blood donors do it for financial reasons. Blood gangsters are … Continue reading →

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China Daily piracy

Posted on 2003-12-07 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Scuba instructor and Billboard correspondent Steven Schwankert wrote a story about Taiwanese pop-star A-Mei (aka Zhang Huimei and Chang Hui-mei) which was published in the Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou editions of That’s Magazines. This is the title and first paragraph … Continue reading →

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The Unbearable Lightness of Beijing

Posted on 2003-12-06 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Part Five of the fictional Sanlitun Diaries, by Kaiser Kuo (whose blog has the same name as this story). We got up together to leave and my head was swimming.

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The fake document cadre, real estate companies reined in, Japanese companies in trouble again

Posted on 2003-12-05 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Headlines from the Chinese press NEWSPAPERS DECEMBER 5 People’s Daily 人民日报 Maintain the continuity and stability of macro-economic policy 保持宏观经济政策的连续性和稳定性 Yeah.

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SARS monkeys, preserved courtyards, Kool Aid in the Xinmin Evening News editorial office

Posted on 2003-12-04 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Headlines from the Chinese press DECEMBER 4 NEWSPAPERS Southern Weekend 南方周末 18 Heng River monkeys sacrificed for SARS vaccine experiments 18 只恒河猴殉身SARS疫苗实验 Sacrifice the monkey to frighten the virus.

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Migrant workers to be paid, bureaucrats to be paid more, private property obfuscation

Posted on 2003-12-03 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Headlines from the Chinese press DECEMBER 3: NEWSPAPERS The Beijing News 新京报 Migrant workers must be paid in full before Spring Festival 春节前全额兑现民工欠薪 What it means: The Beijing government is forcing real estate developers who owe money to migrant workers … Continue reading →

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Writing resolutely [about sex]

Posted on 2003-12-02 by Jeremy Goldkorn

That’s the title of a report on Chinese portal Tom.com which concludes that writers like Mu Zi Mei are old hat in Taiwan. The article mentions a book called ‘The Condition of a 21 year Old Spicy Mama’ by Jennifer … Continue reading →

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Mandela AIDS concert in the Beijing News

Posted on 2003-12-02 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Yesterday’s Beijing News featured a two page spread about the 46664 concert in Cape Town to raise money for Nelson Mandela Foundation and other organizations involved in AIDS and HIV related work. 46664 was Mandela’s prisoner number on Robben Island. … Continue reading →

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AIDS, migrant workers’ salaries, Lijiang, capitalism is good!

Posted on 2003-12-02 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Headlines from the Chinese press DECEMBER 2 It’s all about AIDS today: A photo of Prime Minister (aka Premier) Wen Jiabao wearing an AIDS ribbon and shaking hands with an AIDS patient was splashed all over the front pages of … Continue reading →

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