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 sina.com (in Chinese), translated by CDT (link): The police in Hangzhou City, Zhejiang, recently arrested more than 10 college student prostitutes, who sold their body for 800-100 renminbi, or $100-120, a time. Also arrested was a college boy who was dismissed from a major university in Hangzhou for theft. He gets 200-300 renminbi from […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua News Agency (in Chinese), translated by CDT (link): The total number of criminal cases handled by local courts and the number of convicts sentenced last year were, respectively 684,000 and 845,000, up 6.2% and 10% respectively over 2004, according to Xiao Yang, president of China’s Supreme People’s Court. Xiao indicated that the public […]
Read MoreFrom the China News Agency (in Chinese), translated by CDT (link): According to a mid-term result released by the Office of Poverty Prevention of the State Council on its “Rural Poverty Prevention Development Plan 2001-2010,” there are still 23.7 million Chinese who don’t have enough to eat and wear, a decrease of 5.6 million in […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua News Agency (in Chinese), translated by CDT (link): Huang Mengfu, vice president of the Society for Promoting China’s Unification and vice chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, received today a visiting delegation of the Society for Promoting China’s Peaceful Unification based in Germany. Taking this opportunity, Huang critized Chen Shui-bian for […]
Read MoreFrom the Sydney Morning Herald, via Google News (link): CHINA began its mission to become a nuclear power in 1951, when it signed a secret deal with Russia under the guise of developing clean nuclear energy. But half a century later its voracious energy needs mean it is actually focusing on developing nuclear energy for […]
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