January 2008 - Danwei - Chinglishfriend.com

Tanks on the highway

E Modern Express January 31, 2008 The top headline in today's Modern Express announces that the State Council has established a disaster relief center in response to the current winter storms. According to an address by Zhang Guobao vice director of the...

Published Thu, Jan 01 2008 3:31 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: Front Page of the Day

Danwei Picks: clean attitudes in the mainstream media

Danwei Picks is a daily digest of the "From the Web" links found on the Danwei homepage. A feed for the links as they are posted throughout the day is available at Feedsky (in China) or Feedburner (outside China). A one-edged double-edged sword : Black...

Published Thu, Jan 01 2008 3:22 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: From the Web

Media speculation surrounding Zhang Yuan's arrest

Infusion of green tea and ice? When Zhang Yuan was busted by the Beijing Police for doing drugs, it was captured by the Beijing TV program, Law Enforcement in Progress (法治进行时). The program was aired only once, but it found a considerable online audience...

Published Thu, Jan 01 2008 2:30 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: Crime

The Premier apologizes

Beijing Times January 30, 2008 On the front page of today's Beijing Times is a picture of Premier Wen Jiabao paying his respects to the relatives of three power company workers in Changsha, Hunan Province. The three workers died on Saturday during a job...

Published Wed, Jan 01 2008 2:20 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: Front Page of the Day

Danwei Picks: Globalization through scholarship

Danwei Picks is a daily digest of the "From the Web" links found on the Danwei homepage. A feed for the links as they are posted throughout the day is available at Feedsky (in China) or Feedburner (outside China). Fragments of the Tocharian : At Salon...

Published Wed, Jan 01 2008 2:02 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: From the Web

Snow and chaos

The Beijing News January 29, 2008 The front page of The Beijing News concerns the heavy snow that is afflicting south and southeast China. About 78 million people in fourteen provinces are affected; 24 deaths have been reported so far, according to the...

Published Tue, Jan 01 2008 3:04 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: Front Page of the Day

Beijingers on Hilary and Obama

In this episode of Sexy Beijing, Su Fei asks Beijingers what they think of Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama, and what they want from American policy towards China. This article is from Danwei.org

Published Tue, Jan 01 2008 1:13 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: Featured Video

Beijing: Intern for CBS News

This is a recruitment advertisement. Please contact the advertiser directly if you are interested. See all job ads . CBS News is looking for an intern who will be free to work at the Beijing Bureau approximately two days a week for a 4-6 week period....

Published Tue, Jan 01 2008 1:00 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: Jobs available

Blood on the streets, blinkers on the media

Time to buy Blood on the streets "Buy when there is blood on the streets" is a piece of Wall Street wisdom often attributed to Philippe de Rothschild (1902 - 1988), who was rich enough to have cash to throw around when everyone else was bleeding. Wang...

Published Mon, Jan 01 2008 3:51 PM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

China Telecom blocking Skype?

Danwei reader WB in Chengdu reports: Since Saturday I have been unable to sign in to Skype from my hotel in Chengdu. This problem with Skype has occurred occasionally in the past for brief periods, but never for so long. Other Skype users in Chengdu have...

Published Mon, Jan 01 2008 3:51 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: Net Nanny Follies

Danwei Picks: Filming contemporary Chinese society

Danwei Picks is a daily digest of the "From the Web" links found on the Danwei homepage. A feed for the links as they are posted throughout the day is available at Feedsky (in China) or Feedburner (outside China). Video: Please Vote for Me : From China...

Published Mon, Jan 01 2008 3:46 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: From the Web

All Chinese museums to be free by 2009

New Life Post January 28, 2008 New Life Post is a general news daily, which published by Yunnan Disabled Person's Federation, and distributed nationwide. It is a one of the mainstream newspapers of Yunnan with a daily distribution reaches 200,000 copies...

Published Mon, Jan 01 2008 2:55 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: Front Page of the Day

New spoof video from Hu Ge

Hu Ge (胡戈) is a Shanghai-based video editor who rose to overnight fame after he produced an online video spoof of Chen Kaige's multi-million dollar flop movie The Promise (see this Danwei post for background). He has released another spoof online video...

Published Mon, Jan 01 2008 1:25 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: Video

Mao's English teacher dies at 73

Zhang Hanzhi Zhang Hanzhi became Mao Zedong's English teacher at a young age and went on to a career in China's diplomatic corps. She scandalized political circles in Beijing in the 1970s by divorcing her husband Hong Junyan and marrying Qiao Guanhua...

Published Sun, Jan 01 2008 8:33 PM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: The passing of the old guard

NowPublic seeks editor in China

This is a recruitment advertisement. Please contact the advertiser directly if you are interested. See all job ads . NowPublic, the participatory news network which mobilizes reporters to cover defining events around the world, is seeking an editor based...

Published Sun, Jan 01 2008 8:29 PM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: Jobs available

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Tanks on the highway

Danwei Picks: clean attitudes in the mainstream media

Media speculation surrounding Zhang Yuan's arrest

The Premier apologizes

Danwei Picks: Globalization through scholarship

Snow and chaos

Beijingers on Hilary and Obama

Beijing: Intern for CBS News

Blood on the streets, blinkers on the media

China Telecom blocking Skype?

Danwei Picks: Filming contemporary Chinese society

All Chinese museums to be free by 2009

New spoof video from Hu Ge

Mao's English teacher dies at 73

NowPublic seeks editor in China