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Chinese journalists attacked by profiteers in Hainan

Posted on 2013-07-17 by Johan van de Ven

Journalists from the Nanguo Metropolis Daily 南国都市报 from Hainan went yesterday to investigate claims of fraudulent activities by a company in Hainan. They emerged with only a few scratches to their cameras, but their colleague from Hainan Live TV was not so … Continue reading →

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The hidden dangers of squirt guns

Posted on 2013-07-16 by Hans Gaebler

An incident involving two children and a squirt gun caused the East Asia Economy and Trade News (东亚经贸新闻报) from Jilin province to shine a spotlight today on the potentially grave danger posed by water squirt guns. As evening approached on Sunday in … Continue reading →

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Zhejiang Plane Crash Victims: “Good Riddance!”

Posted on 2013-07-12 by Hans Gaebler

In recent days, controversy has swirled around the backgrounds of Wang Linjia 王琳佳 and Ye Mengyuan 叶梦圆, the two Zhejiang middle school students who died in Saturday’s San Francisco plane crash, with some Chinese netizens saying: “good riddance” (好死了). While … Continue reading →

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42 patients escape from mental hospital in Guangxi

Posted on 2013-07-11 by Johan van de Ven

On the evening of July 5th, 42 mental patients escaped from the No. 3 People’s Hospital in Teng county, Wuzhou, Guangxi province. A search was carried out, and all 42 patients were relocated by 7:33 am the following morning. Only … Continue reading →

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San Francisco plane crash and the death of two Chinese girls

Posted on 2013-07-08 by Hans Gaebler

Yesterday’s tragic plane crash in San Francisco is nearly dominant on China’s front pages today, and particularly highlighted is the death of two Zhejiang middle school students in the crash. According to China’s official Xinhua news agency, the two girls, … Continue reading →

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Qingdao cops chase Tibetan Mastiff

Posted on 2013-07-05 by Johan van de Ven

The Qingdao Morning Post 青岛早报 reported in a front-page story yesterday that in the early hours of July 3,  a stray Tibetan Mastiff ventured onto the Qingyin highway in Qingdao. From 3 until 11 am, local policemen made seven attempts to capture the dog, … Continue reading →

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This is the Wuhan riot police

Posted on 2013-07-02 by Barry van Wyk

The Wuhan Evening News today informs us what some girls in Wuhan, Hubei province, exclaimed yesterday when they saw the newly-arrived riot police in full kit: “How handsome!”, and “I feel so safe now!” The black-clad, “handsome” and impressively armed riot police … Continue reading →

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Chinese Dream? American Dream?

Posted on 2013-06-28 by Danwei

This article is by Chris Marquis and Zoe Yang, Associate Professor and Research Associate of the Harvard Business School. An edited and translated version was published as “中国梦？美国梦？” (literally “Chinese Dream? American Dream?”) in the June 2013 issue of China Economic … Continue reading →

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Terrorist attack and murderous rampage

Posted on 2013-06-24 by Barry van Wyk

At almost exactly the same time – around midnight on Saturday evening 23 June – two heinous acts occurred. The one was a terrorist attack in Pakistan that killed 11 people, including two mountaineers from China; and the other was … Continue reading →

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David Beckham’s visit to Shanghai university ends in chaos

Posted on 2013-06-21 by Barry van Wyk

Global football superstar David Beckham is in China again in his new capacity as ‘global ambassador’ for Chinese football. Yet when he arrived in his Bentley for a promotional event on a Shanghai university campus yesterday, he proved too hot … Continue reading →

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