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 the Washington Post (link): A Chinese researcher in the New York Times Beijing bureau accused of fraud and of divulging state secrets will be tried next month despite a court’s earlier decision to drop the charges, his attorney said Saturday. The trial of Zhao Yan, 44, was tentatively set to begin June 8 in […]
Read MoreFrom People Net via Yulun Jiandu (link), translated by CDT: Futures is a term used in the financial sector, referring to the option of the buyer to acquire the rights to purchase a certain quantity of goods or services at a certain price during a certain period of time in the future. Now futures have […]
Read MoreFrom Yulun Jiandu (link), translated by CDT: Since the 16th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, more than 100 minister- and provincial-level officials were sentenced for corruption, an unprecedented number, according to statistics released by the Supreme Procuratorate. In 2005, 47,306 officials were discipline-punished by Chinese supervision agencies. Another authoritative source last year registered 703 […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News (link): When it is finished it will be the largest hydro-electric power project in the world, its 26 generators pumping out 85bn kW-hours of electricity a year. Critics say the human cost has been far too high. More than a million people have been moved to make way for the dam. At […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters via the New York Times (link): If there is another Yao Ming set to emerge from China in the next few years, he was likely to have been at the Beijing Sports University gymnasium this week getting tips from NBA coaches and players. Among the 62 teenagers from China and other parts of […]
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