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 via Xinhua News Agency (link): A 21-year-old man in central China’s Hubei Province has been infected with the H5N1 bird flu virus and is in a critical condition, the Ministry of Health reported yesterday. The man, surnamed Lai, is a migrant worker in Wuhan, capital city of Hubei Province. He showed symptoms […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times (link): The Chinese president, Hu Jintao, began courting major American business leaders on Tuesday, kicking off a four-day United States tour intended to soothe qualms about China’s surging trade surplus and rising political power. Mr. Hu, who on Thursday will make his first visit to the White House since becoming […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters via the New York Times (link): Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has said that dust storms that whipped Beijing and northern China in recent days were a sharp reminder of the severity of the country’s environmental problems. Wen told an environmental meeting in Beijing that China needed to intensify efforts to rein in pollution […]
Read MoreCompiled by EastSouthWestNorth (link): The United Nations decided to start using simplified Chinese characters in its official documents since 2008, fueling controversy in Greater China and among Chinese people elsewhere. There are different opinions about the decision, which can be seen from the two snapshots by Taipei Times and China Radio International (CRI), respectively below: […]
Read MoreFrom USA Today (link): Lenovo, China’s No. 1 PC maker, on Monday said it plans an aggressive program to pre-install Microsoft Windows on PCs sold there. Last year, less than 10% of Lenovo PCs sold in China came with Windows, Lenovo Chairman Yang Yuanqing said in an interview Monday. After Lenovo launched a test program […]
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