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.
Editorial from the Taipei Times (link): Former Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) chairman Lien Chan (ÈÄ£Êà∞) has once again been to Beijing to join hands with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to suppress Taiwan. Because he no longer represents the KMT at large, China has surreptitiously changed the name of the event from the “KMT-CCP Economic […]
Read MoreFrom CNA via the Taipei Times (link): A Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislator said yesterday that both Taiwan and China should change their national designations to avoid confusion. Speaking during a meeting at the Legislative Yuan on affairs of state, DPP Legislator Chen Chung-hsin (Èô≥Èáç‰ø°) said that when US President George W. Bush met with […]
Read MoreFrom the Taipei Times (link): Government officials yesterday welcomed US President George W Bush’s reiteration of Washington’s stance on Taiwan in his talks with Chinese President Hu Jintao (ËÉ°Èå¶Êø§). Although Bush did not say he was opposed to Taiwanese independence, he did say that he did not support it. Analysts in Taiwan pointed out that […]
Read MoreFrom EastSouthWestNorth (link): Oriental Daily interviewed 349 Hong Kong adults by telephone and showed the survey results with respect to the series of incidents at the Bush-Hu speeches on the White House lawn: – 79% said that the American government should apologize – 62% said USA is not a trustworthy partner
Read MoreFrom BBC News (link): Statistics from security firm Sophos show that China is fast catching up the US as a source of junk e-mail. According to Sophos, 23.1% of spam comes from computers in the US and 21.9% comes from China. The UK is tenth on the list of spam sources. As a continent, Asia […]
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