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 Xinhua News Agency (in Chinese), translated by CDT (link): Spokesperson Jiao Yang of Shanghai Municipal Government said during a regular briefing on March 29 that there is no new discovered human infection of H5N1 strain of bird flu, after a death on March 21 in the city who was later determined and reported as […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters (link): Huang Chiang-nan became a soldier at 17 and fought the communists in China before the Nationalist armies were defeated and fled to Taiwan in 1949. Fifty-seven years later, Huang is still fighting, but the adversary now is Taiwan’s restrictions on travel, and the stakes are matrimonial rather than territorial.
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times (link): Taiwan has two years to go until its next presidential election, but the man widely viewed as the most likely successor to the Democratic Progressive party‘s Chen Shui-bian has already started his campaign. Ma Ying-jeou, the popular mayor of Taipei and chairman of the opposition Kuomintang, has just spent a […]
Read MoreFrom China News Agency via Xinhua News Agency (in Chinese), translated by CDT (link): It is learned from the Chinese Ministry of Health that Minister Gao Qiang vehemently criticized the corrupt practice of kickbacks in drug or medical equipment sales during a meeting today in Beijing about cracking down on the shady practices in the […]
Read MoreFrom Ban Yue Tan/Xinhua News Agency (in Chinese), translated by CDT (link): Village and township debts, after the rural taxation reform, has become a key potential source of complaints from village cadres and rural instability. It is learned that, by 2004, the country’s total amount of debts at the village and township levels went behond […]
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