December 2009 - Danwei - Chinglishfriend.com

Xinhua's 24-hour international news TV station

From The Wall Street Journal : Xinhua is set to enter the world of 24-hour television news as it launches its TV network CNC Friday aimed at an overseas audience. But the state-run news agency has to think hard about how to compete while avoiding becoming...

Published Thu, Dec 12 2009 7:39 PM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Picking off the small troublemakers...

... One by one. From Global Voices: Three prominent bloggers GFWed in the same week Following the blocking of veteran Internet essayist He Caitou's two longstanding blogs hecaitou.net and caobian.info on December 25, renowned columnist Lian Yue had...

Published Thu, Dec 12 2009 7:38 PM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: Net Nanny Follies

Urban China: Work in Progress

Urban China: Work in Progress published by Timezone 8 is based on work from Urban China magazine. Below, co-editor of the book Brendan McGetrick gives us permission for an extract as well as a section from his own introduction to the book. The extract...

Published Thu, Dec 12 2009 2:45 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: China Books

Seasons greetings from Danwei (part II)

Thanks to Nick Frisch, who organized the third Judeo-Christmas Chinese-food dinner and sent in this picture: Two years ago Danwei posted on the "evidence of a plot by a sinister cabal of operatives to bring to Beijing the American tradition of Jews...

Published Thu, Dec 12 2009 2:30 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: Festivals

Women should postpone pregnancy to awoid swine flu

The Beijing News December 31, 2009 Women should avoid getting pregnant until after the swine flu pandemic is over, reports today's Beijing News in its top headline. In a government report published yesterday, the Ministry of Health advised that women...

Published Thu, Dec 12 2009 12:12 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: Front Page of the Day

Another four foreigners arrested for smuggling heroin

Reuters reports on four more heroin smugglers and their possible executions: The four were among nine people arrested over 144.5 kg (318.6 pounds) of heroin found by police in Shenzhen, the far southern Chinese commercial city next to Hong Kong, in August...

Published Wed, Dec 12 2009 10:29 PM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Newspaper meltdown: SCMP axes 35 staff

In The Standard , a competitor of the South China Morning Post : The South China Morning Post yesterday axed 35 editorial and design department staff and closed its Bangkok office. The move came three days before staff, whose salaries were reduced by...

Published Wed, Dec 12 2009 9:51 PM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

A most depressing lede

The first few lines of a Xinhua article published by The China Daily last night: Chinese police have arrested nine people suspected of trafficking mentally disabled people from Leibo County in southwest China' Sichuan Province to other areas and then...

Published Wed, Dec 12 2009 9:33 PM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: Crime

Hu Shuli is editor again

The Guardian reports on the next move of Hu Shuli of Caijing fame: One of China's most independent editors today announced that she had taken the reins at a prominent general news magazine two months after splitting with a former publication over...

Published Wed, Dec 12 2009 9:33 PM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

A new genre of Chinese reggae

Cfensi directs to some reggae courtesy of Chinese rocker Xie Tianxiao (谢天笑). On Dec 24th Xie Tian Xiao (incidentally also from Shandong for those keeping tally) gave his fans a memorable Christmas Eve, coinciding with the release of his new EP Chinese...

Published Wed, Dec 12 2009 9:12 PM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Akram Shaikh and the Opium Wars

Bob Chen at Global Voices Online has translated some reactions to the death of Akram Shaikh: Today when the British drug dealer violated the law on our land, we can openly and rightfully punish him without any mercy. We don't need to follow the order...

Published Wed, Dec 12 2009 8:48 PM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Protesting pedicab drivers struck and killed by train in Tianjin

Beijing Times December 30, 2008 Four men were fatally struck by a bullet train traveling at full speed on Monday in Jinghai County, Tianjin. Five others were injured. According to today's Beijing Times , the dead were local auto pedicab taxi drivers...

Published Tue, Dec 12 2009 11:52 PM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: Front Page of the Day

Cui Weiping's phone interviews about Liu Xiaobo

John Kennedy at Global Voices has translated telephone interviews recently conducted by Beijing Film Academy professor Cui Weiping about Liu Xiaobo. The respondents are intellectuals living in the Mainland. Cui has been publishing their responses on her...

Published Tue, Dec 12 2009 7:23 PM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Petioning HIV hemophiliacs injured in scuffle with cops

Wen Tao in The Global Times : More than 20 hemophiliacs and their relatives gathered at the headquarters of the state pharmaceutical group, petitioning for a compensation package for a 15-year old blood contamination scandal. Conflicts Tuesday with police...

Published Tue, Dec 12 2009 7:23 PM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

No sympathy for executed Briton

Jane Macartney of The Times : Few Chinese were even aware of the execution of Akmal Shaikh yesterday... ...Some debate emerged on the internet, the only free medium for discussion in China, with most comments questioning why a convicted drug smuggler...

Published Tue, Dec 12 2009 7:15 PM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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