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 China Daily (link): Vegetables from Taiwan will be showcased for the first time on the mainland at an agricultural exhibition on April 20 in East China’s Shandong Province. Taiwan’s involvement in the exhibition was made possible after the government annulled import tariffs on 15 categories of Taiwan-grown fruits last August. He Ziyang, deputy director […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily (link): High consumption of energy and power in the 10th Five-Year Plan period (2000-05), especially after 2002, has led to some environmental protection goals not being met in this period, the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) said yesterday in Beijing. The five-year plan stipulated that discharges of sulphur dioxide should be cut […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters via the New York Times (link): China has no timetable for re-establishing ties with the Vatican, a religious official was quoted as saying, throwing into doubt earlier reports that the two sides could have diplomatic relations by the 2008 Olympics. Qi Xiaofei, deputy head of the State Administration of Religious Affairs, made the […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times (link): Mass quantities of air pollutants from China, including mercury discharged from traditional coal-fired power plants, are travelling to places as far away as the US, according to the US environment agency. “That is the most direct impact [of China’s pollution] on the United States,” Stephen Johnson, head of the US […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua via China Daily (link): A Chinese government official says China will turn down any request for the return of ancient Japanese treasures given in tribute to past Chinese rulers. Beijing’s Palace Museum has several hundred items dedicated by the Ryukyu Kingdom, now Japan’s prefecture of Okinawa, to ancient Chinese emperors. He was responding […]
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