Tim Lesle is a freelance journalist and student at Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism. His personal website is telesle.net, his personal blog is here.
Media baron Rupert Murdoch apologized to Jiang Zemin and Li Peng in a 1997 letter, years after claiming that communications technologies were a threat to totalitarian regimes, according to a forthcoming book by a former News...
Read MoreMining giant BHP Billiton Ltd. will increase its iron ore shipments to China’s Baosteel Group Corp. by 94 million metric tons in the next decade, according to Bloomberg. China’s iron imports–necessary for steel...
Read MoreAfter a wave of food safety alarms last year, another Chinese-manufactured food is under scrutiny. This time, it’s dumplings imported into Japan by Japan Tobacco, Inc. According to Reuters: Japan Tobacco Inc said on...
Read MoreJi Xianlin, the “guru of all Indologists in China,” according to the Times of India, was awarded one of India’s highest honors, the Padma Bhushan. The decision to honour widely-respected Indologist Ji Xianlin,...
Read MoreZhang Hanzhi, the diplomat who, as a young teacher, tutored a 70-year-old Chairman Mao in English for a few months in 1964, has died at age 73. According to Reuters, her death ends “an eventful life that began as an...
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