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From the BBC: University student, Ma Dingming, has just purchased his second mobile phone this year. The phone, made by Taiwanese company Dopod, cost him $848. The phone he bought earlier in the year cost him $867… China’s increasingly wealthy middle classes and tech savvy youngsters are the main reasons why companies, including Nokia and […]
Read MoreFrom the BBC: The prominent Chinese dissident writer, Liu Binyan, has died at the age of 80 in the US, reports say. Mr Liu had lived in exile in the US for the past 18 years and had been suffering from cancer. He was the son of a railway worker and joined the underground Communist […]
Read MoreFrom Interfax: China ordered all employees at Chinese newspapers and periodicals to undergo examinations to ensure they meet “press and publication qualifications,” the General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP) said Monday. In the past, journalists and editors working at Chinese newspapers and periodicals had to take tests in order to receive journalist cards, which […]
Read MoreFrom The Australian: Three Chinese actors have evoked outrage and jubilation in the internet chatrooms of China by appearing as Japanese geishas in the film Memoirs of a Geisha. Ziyi Zhang, China’s most famous actress, has attracted epithets and accolades from “shameful traitor” to “graceful beauty” for her role. The outrage stems from the anger […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: It was well past midnight when the peasants finished piling up fragrant tobacco leaves, more than 1,000 pounds of them stacked 10 feet high on the back of a rented truck. In the still darkness, they pulled slowly out of Shangdeng village, bumped along a dirt road for a few miles […]
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