Michael Zhao graduated from UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, where he produced an in-depth multimedia thesis on electronic waste dumping from the rich world to developing countries. He also made a short documentary on the same topic, available on his personal site. He now works at Asia Society's Center on US-China Relations as a multimedia producer in New York. Michael worked for the New York Times Beijing Bureau as a reporting assistant from 2003-2005. He graduated from the Beijing Language & Culture University with a bachelor's degree in English. He co-authored a book on learning Chinese language and culture, Urban Chinese: Mandarin in 21st Century China. Michael was born and grew up in Wuhan, China.
From Xinhua net via sina.com, translated by CDT: Hou Jianjun, former Liaoning Provincial Congress’s delegate member and chairman of a transportation company in Fushun City, had a verbal fight with a pedestrian while driving early one morning in March last year. Then it escalated into a fistfight. And the incident spiraled out of control with […]
Read MoreAfter a failure of working out a green GDP scheme spearheaded by SEPA, now the National Bureau of Statistics is coming up with some watered down versions, from China News Agency via sina.com, translated by CDT: During a Q&A session today, Minister Qiu Xiaohua of the state’s statistics agency said China will work out happiness […]
Read MoreAmid the recent swirling news tightening waves, some more discipline with the judicial system, from Xinhua net via Sina.com, translated by CDT: Vice President Cao Jianming of China’s Supreme Court stressed the need to strictly observe news release discipline in courts across the country. Some embargoed items, quite arbitrary in case of ambiguity, include: contents […]
Read MoreFrom Xian Hui via Yulun Jiandu, translated by CDT: An article in Aug. 29’s issue of People’s Daily introduced a rare touching story: the party branch of Liuhe Township and its government in Qichun County of Hubei Province sold all their three government cars since 2003, in order to have funds to promote agricultural technologies. […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters via the New York Times: China plans to send a contingent of peacekeeping troops to Lebanon and is consulting the United Nations on the details, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Monday. The spokesman gave no details but French President Jacques Chirac, whose country is a key player in the U.N. deployment, […]
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