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The Asian Wall Street Journal examines the responsibility of foreign corporations (and, one could imply, foreign consumers) in destroying China’s environment in the name of producing cheap goods: In the more than two decades since international companies began turning to Chinese factories to churn out the cheap T-shirts, jeans and sneakers that people around the […]
Read MorePeople’s Daily reports that in lieu of failed attempts to implement real-name registration for blogs, blog-hosting companies are now signing a “self-discipline pledge.”: More than ten major Chinese blog service providers have agreed to sign the “self-discipline code for blog services” drawn up by the Internet Society of China (ISC). …Real-name registration is only to […]
Read MoreSports Illustrated has published a lengthy story which interviews athletes, disgraced athletes, sports managers, and construction workers building the Olympic stadium about the run-up to the 2008 Games: In trying to understand sports, culture and life in China today, it’s tempting to grasp at the huge numbers: 1.32 billion people; seven million more cars on […]
Read MorePeople’s Daily, one of five official newspapers with identical front pages on August 19
Read MoreFollowing international media reports that the government had downplayed news about the blue ear pig disease, which has spread to 25 provinces, officials denied the reports. From the AP: China rejected criticism that it had downplayed an outbreak of a disease in pigs, saying Monday it had been “open and transparent” with the international community. […]
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