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A shopping mall building under a strangely blue sky, via mongkeyking
Read MoreMichael Zhao
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.
Beijing Intensifies Dog Control – Shanghai Daily
Stayed tuned ahead for Beijing’s war on dogs, and rabies, from Shanghai Daily: A campaign will begin on Thursday to check that Beijing’s citizens have licenses for their dogs, do not have more than one dog per household and are not illicitly operating pet businesses in China’s capital, local police have announced. On Wednesday afternoon, […]
Read MoreCrowd Protests Health Care in China – Joseph Kahn
From the New York Times: Some 2,000 people mobbed and ransacked a hospital in southwestern China on Friday in a dispute over medical fees and shoddy health care practices, a human rights group said today. At least 10 people were injured when police broke up the demonstration at Guang’an (ÂπøÂÆâ) City No. 2 People’s Hospital, […]
Read MoreChina Net World’s Most Free: Official – media
From Radio Free Asia, Netease, etc. (you will be wowed!!!): A Chinese senior propaganda official said recently in meetings, including during a visit to Washington last month, that China’s Internet is the world’s most free and that China is more progressive than Korea and UK, despite China’s bottom-hitting ranking in a latest world wide survey […]
Read MoreFormer CPC Official Lambasts Selling of Gov’t Jobs – Xinhua
From Xinhua via China Daily: Buying and selling government jobs has become one of the main causes of government corruption in China, says a former head of the CPC’s organization department. Zhang Quanjing (º†ÂÖ®ÊôØ), who headed the department for five years until 1999, says some people will stop at nothing, including murder, to move up […]
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