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 Global Times via sina.com: China Three Gorges Project Corporation, the builder of the Three Gorges dam, is in talks with Congo about participating in the Grand Inga project, a plan to dam Congo River 225 km downstream of capital Kinshasa. The project, with a capacity of 40,000 megawatt of power, will be twice the […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters via the New York Times: Chinese police detained prominent dissident Hu Jia on Thursday morning, his family said, adding to the list of human rights activists held or harassed by the country’s dissent-wary government. Hu was taken away by plain-clothes police early in the morning, his wife Zeng Jinyan told Reuters. She said […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters via the New York Times: Houston Rockets center Yao Ming believes more of his Chinese team mates need to gain experience abroad for the national team to be competitive at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, state media reported on Tuesday. China finished a disappointing 11th at the world championships in Japan after being knocked […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters via the New York Times: Beijing chief organizer Liu Qi will back the freedom of media to report “unimpeded” around China during the 2008 Olympics, Britain’s Olympic Minister Tessa Jowell said on Tuesday. Jowell said she had raised the issue of freedom of access for journalists “in the strongest possible terms” in a […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters via the New York Times: North Korea’s test firing of a volley of missiles in July has disappointed its traditional ally China, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill said in Beijing on Tuesday. [Full Text] See also Reuters’ U.S., China Mull Warning N.Korea Against Nuclear Test: China and the United States have […]
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