Monthly Archives: December 2010
Microblog, WikiLeaks Top 2010 Internet Terms in China
AFP reports on the top Internet terms in China for 2010:Web users searched the definition of the term “microblog” more than three millio
South Korea Frees Chinese Fishermen After Fatal Clash
South Korea has released the three Chinese fisherman involved in the recent fishing boat conflict in South Korean waters, according to BBC News: The t
Ministers Taken to Task Over Healthcare Reforms
China Daily reports on the state of medical reform: China’s top health officials were grilled on Friday over why the ongoing healthcare reform h
Photo: The Hong Kong skyline with Christmas lights, by Mark Heng
The Hong Kong skyline with Christmas lights, by Mark Heng
The Kids of Foxconn
Photographer Jordan Pouille has spent time at the massive Foxconn campus outside Shenzhen, the site of 13 worker suicides this year and the primary su
Christmas Blossoms in China
Several foreign media reports look at the rising popularity of celebrating Christmas in China. From the BBC:Only an estimated 2% of China’s po
Book Publishers Scramble for Chinese Readers
The New York Times reports on efforts to publish “The Persian Boy,” by Mary Renault, and other foreign works of literature, in Chinese:With tastes g
China Has a Lot of Peacemaking to Do
The Chinese government is hoping to mend some fences in coming months following diplomatic rows with several countries, the Los Angeles Times reports:
Foreign Words to be Standardized
China Daily reports on new regulations against the mixing of Chinese and foreign languages in media reports:Under the regulation, abbreviations such
China Sentences Uighur to Life for Reporting Riots
Last week an investigative journalist in Xinjiang was beaten and is now brain dead in a hospital. And now news that another journalist in Xinjiang has
Stanley Lubman: China’s War on Dissent and Activism
U.C. Berkeley Law Professor Stanley Lubman writes on the Wall Street Journal’s China Real Time blog that the ongoing crackdown on dissent is not
Photo: A worker at the Foxconn plant, from a series on Foxconn kids by Jordan Pouille
Photo: A worker at the Foxconn plant, from a series Foxconn kids by Jordan Pouille
Ugly Side to China’s Plastic Surgery Boom
The Washington Post looks at the dangers inherent in the rising trend of plastic surgery in China:About 3 million people in China had plastic surger
17 Facts About China That Will Blow Your Mind
Business Insider has posted 17 facts about China “that will blow your mind”:The speed and size of economic development going in China ri
Obama to Welcome China’s Hu Jintao January 19
President Hu Jintao will be feted with a White House State Dinner on January 19. AFP reports:President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama wi
