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.
A growing problem for foreign firms who play the China game. Translated by CDT from China News Agency: Telecom giant Alcatel-Lucent has agreed to settle a bribery case with the U.S. Justice Department and Securities and Equity Commission, paying out a $2.5 million settlement. Its misdeed was bribing Chinese officials by paying for their 314 […]
Read MoreTranslated by CDT from Global Times Online (环球时报), which doesn’t name one of the key sources: No wonder that Wall Street has smelled the enormous opportunity in serving the ever-growing Chinese rich. Now there’s one new growing service at major investment banks: helping Chinese coal bosses to manage their big bank accounts. Mr. G, an […]
Read MoreTranslated by CDT from Southern Breeze magazine: To Chinese environmental officials, scientists and NGOs, 2007 has been the worst year, and the best year. It’s the worst year because of a spate of major environmental cases across the country: the blue algae bloom in Lake Tai, the rat disaster around Lake Dongting, the near-failure of […]
Read MoreTranslated by CDT from Great Wall Online: Li Yizhong (李毅中), the high profile coal mine safety chief of China, is known in the media as “China’s most exhausted senior official” and “the official who has erupted the most in anger,” mostly for trailing accidents across the country “putting out the fire.” Recently Li’s fellow comrade […]
Read MoreTranslated by CDT from People Online: China’s glaciers have retreated 7.4% on average compared with the period between 1950s-1980s, according to a recent glacier resources survey led by former meteorological chief Qin Dahe, a Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The survey covered nearly 20,000 square kilometers of clean-cap glaciers in China. Glaciers that […]
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