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 USA Today (link): The American tech industry’s increasingly close relationship with China has more U.S. government officials worried ” and taking action. PC-maker Lenovo, which is partly owned by the Chinese government, is defending a new $13 million deal to sell 16,000 PCs and accessories to the U.S. State Department, amid claims it is […]
Read MoreFrom the AP via USA Today (link): Twenty-two Chinese nationals were in custody Wednesday after they apparently let themselves out of a 40-foot cargo container that had been used to smuggle them from China, officials said. The 18 men and four women, all believed to be in their 20s and 30s, seemed to be in […]
Read MoreFrom Beijing Morning Post via sina.com (in Chinese), translated by CDT (link): Eight out of 10 graduating college girl students said they were discriminated against in their job-hunting, according to a survey by the Ministry of Labor and Social Security on students in Beijing and Nanjing. Ninety percent of the surveyed students said they heard […]
Read MoreFrom China Taiwan Net via sina.com (in Chinese), translated by CDT (link): Ma Ying-jeou, chairman of the Nationalist Party in Taiwan, may go to visit New York in June for a world forum on intelligent cities, according to TVBS, a Taiwan television station. Thanks to his promotion for wireless broadband construction in Taipei, the city […]
Read MoreFrom International Outlook magazine visa sina.com (in Chinese), translated by CDT (link): Although the Chinese government has been publishing a national defense white paper and data about its military spending, many western countries, including the United States and Japan, generally don’t buy the credibility of the papers and figures. A recent report released by the […]
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