Tag Archives: Tibet

Support the Olympics: kill splittists

QQ Huaxia has an Independence monster; a bus explodes in Shanghai; interviews with youth who aren’t angry; a museum of Tibetan history.

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CCTV broadcasts One World without the Super Girls

CCTV vs. Super Girls; student interviews DL, who has envoys in Beijing; HK media on the torch; historical and geographic perspectives on the boycotts; book reviews; sketchy underwear ads at Xinjiekou.

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Nine Dragons chief accuses NGO of anti-Olympic motivations

The Beijing News (新京报): 30 were sentenced to jail for Tibetan riot.

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Preserving traditional homes in Fujian

Hakka homes; the Haj and Uighur identity; Tibet flags on the mainland; discussions with the Dalai; mobile users up to 574 mil; Swedish TV channel loses Nobel; and a dreamy security officer.

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The Western media on China, the Olympics and Tibet

A selection of links to different voices in the much-pilloried Western media.

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Tibet 27 years ago, plus ça change

A news story about Tibet from 1980.

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Grace Wang

Unfortunate backdrop This article is by guest contributor Alice Xin Liu. On April 9, 2008 at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, two high-profile student ‘protests’ for and against Tibetan independence took place. Grace Wang (Wang Qianyuan 王千源), a 21 … Continue reading

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Saccharine propaganda

A Youtube music video: ‘Don’t be too CNN’.

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Donuts and guidebooks full of holes

Donuts in Shanghai; stories about Lonely Planet China; a look at both sides of the western media bias protests; more anti-CNN.

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Expensive resignation

Zheng Zhihong (郑志宏), a airliner pilot, was judged by court to pay his employer, China Eastern Airlines, 1.4 million yuan in compensation to end his work contract.

The China Eastern Airline asked for 12.57 million yuan from Zheng to compensate the training cost that has been spent on him.

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