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From the South China Morning Post, via Asia Media: Most Shenzhen residents are ignorant of the city’s first reported case of human bird flu infection, with the official media playing down the incident. In Anliang village in the Longgang district, where a 31-year-old truck driver was found to have been infected with an H5 strain […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: They may have been small- time bankers from a provincial Chinese city, but they traveled like high rollers. On Oct. 2, 2001, three junior Bank of China managers from the southern Chinese province of Guangdong boarded a private jet in Vancouver for a flight to Las Vegas. One of the […]
Read MoreFrom Business Week: The 2008 Beijing Olympics is being billed as one of those glorious defining moments in history that will signal China’s arrival as an economic power. But what if the global media pack and the millions of tourists who descend on China two years from now take away a less-than-flattering impression of the […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Beijing blogger and podcaster Dong Lu registered his 10 millionth hit on Friday morning, racing to the landmark on the back of China’s obsession with the World Cup. The 36-year-old’s irreverent take on soccer’s showpiece, produced with the help of three friends in the living room of his apartment on the northeast outskirts […]
Read MoreFrom the Los Angeles Times: For Hollywood, the road into China has become such a long march that film executives are rethinking their expectations for the elusive market. The decision by Chinese officials this month to abruptly pull “The Da Vinci Code” from theaters, even though the religious thriller was a hit with moviegoers, marks […]
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