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Portrait of a Chinese P2P lender

Posted on 2013-08-09 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Peer to Peer (P2P) lending websites allow users to lend and borrow money directly to and from each other. China’s first P2P lending website, PPDai.com, launched in 2007. As of 2013, there are scores of websites that operate as online brokers … Continue reading →

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“Are you still prostrating yourself before foreign milk powder?”

Posted on 2013-08-06 by Neil Thomas

The vast majority of Chinese daily newspapers yesterday featured the massive New Zealand milk powder product recall as a front page story, most as either the leading headline or as a large and prominent graphic feature. The imagery is very … Continue reading →

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Is Shanghai’s current heatwave even hotter than the notorious summer of 1934?

Posted on 2013-07-30 by Hans Gaebler

A dead heat has settled in to large parts of southern China, and images of fiery thermometers and children splashing in pools have cropped up on front pages of newspapers around China alongside headlines exclaiming record-breaking temperatures, as can be … Continue reading →

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60-70% of honey in Jinan is fake

Posted on 2013-07-29 by Neil Thomas

The front cover of yesterday’s Jinan Times is dominated by an exposé of the Shandong honey industry, with a headline proclaiming “60-70% of honey on the market is adulterated,” leading into a detailed feature article on pages two and three. The report claims that … Continue reading →

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Bo Xilai indicted: “No-one is above the law”

Posted on 2013-07-26 by Johan van de Ven

Disgraced former Chongqing Party boss Bo Xilai was indicted yesterday on charges of accepting bribes, corruption, and abuse of official power. Today, Chinese newspapers have responded. The People’s Daily (人民日报) published a strongly-worded editorial under the headline “No one is above the … Continue reading →

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Baidu’s guide to the eight biggest Internet scams in China

Posted on 2013-07-25 by Neil Thomas

The top headline of the front page of today’s Beijing Evening News (北京晚报) is ‘Bo Xilai indicted today’. The Global Times has a good English summary of the way the party is spinning the story. Also on the front page is the headline “21 … Continue reading →

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Chinese newspapers react to royal baby

Posted on 2013-07-24 by Johan van de Ven

The as yet unnamed third-in-line to the British throne emerged into the world at 11:34 pm Chinese time on 22 July. With yesterday’s print already set, the Chinese press today benefited from a luxury not enjoyed by their colleagues in … Continue reading →

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Massive earthquake strikes rural Gansu

Posted on 2013-07-23 by Hans Gaebler

Early yesterday morning, Zhu Wenqing 祝文清 had just arisen from bed in Majiagou 马家沟 village, Min county 岷县, Gansu, when he heard a spectacular boom. He rushed outside and watched as the building he had just exited began to sway … Continue reading →

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China’s football team fights back

Posted on 2013-07-23 by Barry van Wyk

This was a long time coming: finally there’s something to cheer about for Chinese football fans. It’s not a victory, but a respectable draw and – even more important – not a humiliation. With a summer of shame and three … Continue reading →

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Chengguan kill melon vendor with his own measure weights

Posted on 2013-07-19 by Neil Thomas

Yesterday’s front page of the Hainan-based Business Daily of International Tourism Island reported on the latest incident of violence involving chengguan, those city management officials tasked with enforcing regulations on local-level law and order, traffic, sanitation, and the environment. Yet this particular incident … Continue reading →

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