Timothy Lesle

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.

China’s Pollution Problem Goes Global – Jacques Leslie

The cover story of Mother Jones surveys the major environmental problems plaguing China. Anyone who has followed this issue won’t find much new (see CDT’s work on China’s Environmental Crisis). But the story has an engaging narrative thread, in which writer Jacques Leslie searches for signs of all of the above with a guide named […]

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A Toy Maker’s Conscience – Jonathan Dee

Business professor Prakash Sethi has spent the last several years monitoring the working conditions in Mattel’s Chinese toy factories. Jonathan Dee writes in the New York Times Magazine: If Mattel were simply a greedy or sloppy company that got caught doing something it shouldn’t and paid the price, its story, and Sethi’s, would be a […]

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Language Barrier Has Google Tongue Tied in Beijing – Bloomberg

Google as both brand and verb seems to be lost in translation in China, write Janet Ong and John Liu (via Ireland’s Independent): “G-O-O-G-L-E is not a normal Chinese spelling and people don’t pronounce it right,” Kai-fu Lee, Google’s president for Greater China, said in an interview in Beijing. “Most people call us ‘go go’.”. […]

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China, India Kick Off Joint Anti-terror Military Training – Xinhua

Xinhua describes the joint Chinese and Indian military operation “Hand-in-Hand 2007,” taking place in Kunming: [Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang] said that the training aimed to enhance mutual understanding and mutual trust between Chinese and Indian armed forces, strengthen their exchanges in the field of anti-terrorism, deter the “three evil forces” of terrorism, separatism […]

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Cinephiles Pack Your Bags – Howard W. French

While one frustrated fan has famously sued, many more movie-lovers have gotten around the censorship of Ang Lee’s award-winning film Lust, Caution by going to Hong Kong to see the full version. So writes Howard French in the New York Times: Travelers have made their way to Hong Kong to see movies before, of course, […]

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