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Mommy's stressed and on a diet This is a translation of an article that appeared in the Southern Daily (南方日报) which is the Guangdong Province Party newspaper, sister to the more lively and commercial Southern Metropolis Daily and part of the hydra-like Southern Media Group . The translation is by occasional...
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Lin Miaoke in her breakout performance The Global Language Monitor, a Texas-based organization whose biggest claim to fame is its dubious pursuit of the millionth word in the English language (they're up to 996,341 right now), recently released its latest analysis of the media buzz surrounding various...
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Peninsula Metropolis Daily August 6, 2008 Today's Peninsula Metropolis Daily , a daily newspaper whose distribution is limited to Qingdao, a coastal city in Shandong Province, ran a big headline celebrating the newspaper's recent ascent to "the 55th strongest newspaper of the world". The headline ("strongest...
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Keeping a legal pet dog can be an expensive proposition in Guangzhou; a license to own a dog costs 10,000 yuan and each year a dog owner must pay an additional 6,000 yuan for a medical "check". The government passed these laws in 1997 in hopes of reducing the number of dogs in the city. However, the...
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Better than fishwrap This woven basket, purchased a few months ago for US$9.99 at The Container Store, a US housewares chain, is constructed out of old, rolled-up mainland Chinese newspapers. In a few cases, the snippets of text visible on the rolled-up strips make it possible to identify general location...
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Not long after the, er, reshuffling of several English language magazines in Beijing, this news comes out of Shanghai: About a week ago, a source sent us the following email: Since you carried a news item on the new Shanghai Star publications early this year when they were launched you might be interested...
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New Travel Weekly May 19, 2008 New Travel Weekly (旅游新报), a Chongqing-based newspaper was suspended from publishing for using bikini-clad women on the front page of its May 19 issue. The newspaper was accused of "violating journalistic ethics" in its earthquake reporting. The president and the chief editor...
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The China Daily published a Xinhua report today: Hu Jia sentenced to 3.5 years in jail Hu Jia was sentenced Thursday by the Beijing First Intermediate People's Court to three and half years imprisonment, with one year deprivation of political rights, for subverting the state. The verdict said Hu, a married...
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Health section from The Beijing News , March 4, 2008 This week's health section from The Beijing News features a cover story on abortion and birth control, titled "Reject Abortion, Seek Out the Best Birth Control Methods." In the introduction, reporter Qiu Jionghua contrasts the advertisements for "painless...
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Going daily From Thomas Crampton: Cambodia’s Phnom Penh Post goes daily: Newspaper jobs available [T]he Phnom Penh Post is one of Southeast Asia’s legendary publications and Michael Hayes its legendary founding editor. It was the first English-language newspaper in Cambodia when launched in 1992. Australian...