Danwei Noon Report is a daily roundup of new and old media coverage about China from Chinese and English sources.
Xinhua’s: Foxconn reduces claim against journalists to one yuan
Xinhua’s Chinese website’s headline story today recounts how Foxconn has decided against suing China Business News journalist Wang You and editor Weng Bao for 30 million yuan, reducing the amount to only one yuan.
The state owned news agency reporting about press freedom issues: This is remarkable.
The Xinhua story is here. See ESWN for more details and commentary.
Luxury living comes to PKU
At Peking University, as in many schools across China, students must trek from their dormitories to distant bathhouses when they wish to shower. This year, however, PKU has made renovations to some of its dorms, allowing more than 5200 students to shower in the comfort of their own building. The 144 showerheads are just the first step; in the coming years, more dorms will be given the treatment so that eventually, 450 nozzles will offer hot showers to 15,000 students (Mirror, link – in Chinese).
Sex in Shanghai hits the print media
Following a cryptic message on news editor Zhang Rui’s blog last night that “immoral foreign teachers will be the next big thing,” Beijing Times has a large front-page headline for a full-page inside feature on the controversy over ChinaBounder. Essentially a summary of how things have transpired to date, it also includes a few exclusive quotes from professor Zhang Jiehai:
“I am opposed to online mobs. My goal is to find out this individual’s true identity through our cooperative effort and expel him from China. This kind of person is unfit to be a teacher in China, but I do not advise netizens to use extreme methods to resolve this problem.”
Zhang Jiehai said that at 3pm two days ago, he discovered that a password had been set up on the blog. This demonstrates that Chinabounder is scared. He will continue to investigate until he can get Chinabounder kicked out of China (link – in Chinese)
See also yesterday’s Guardian story by Jonathan Watts.