Shanghai’s Blood Plasma Scare, Beijing’s Legitimacy
Last week, news broke that HIV antibodies had been detected in 12,229 bottles of a blood...
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Minireview: 2018 in Censorship (Jan-Oct)
This series is a month-by-month recap of censorship instructions issued to the media by government...
Vaccine Scandal Shows Public Distrust, System’s Flaws
The Wall Street Journal’s Fanfan Wang and Laurie Burkitt report that an ongoing government...
Minitrue: Don’t Hype Article on Illegal Vaccines
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Corruption Scandal Hits One of China’s Top Universities
An official at China’s prestigious Renmin University was recently detained for his alleged...
As Red Cross Probe Stumbles, Critics See Red
In response to widespread public distrust in the Red Cross Society of China after the 2011 Guo Meimei scandal and accusations of disaster relief fund mismanagement during the 6.6Mw Sichuan earthquake in April, a special...
Trial Begins for ‘Sex-Tape Official’ Lei Zhengfu
Former party secretary of Chongqing’s Beibei district Lei Zhengfu was removed from office after anti-corruption blogger Zhu Ruifeng leaked a sex-tape of the official and a young woman late last year which quickly went...
Discrepant Data Garners More Distrust for Red Cross
In 2011, Guo Meimei scandalized the name of the Red Cross Society of China at a time when many were already suspicious about the humanitarian NGO’s management of funds. After the devastating 6.6Mw earthquake hit Sichuan...
“I Thought I Could Do a Better Job,” Says Fake Official
Zhao Xiyong, the Shenyang man who had been posing as a departmental head at the State Council Research Office on various “official” trips since 2010, was declared an impostor by provincial and central authorities and...
Fake Minister Duped Chinese Officialdom
Both Yunnan authorities and the central government recently realized that for the last three years, they had been duped by a fake “minister”, talented impostor Zhao Xiyong. From Malcolm Moore at the Telegraph: For...
Wal-Mart's China Chief Resigns
A pork scandal forced Wal-mart to shutter more than a dozen Chongqing locations last week, and now its top China executive has stepped down. From Xinhua News: Ed Chan, who served as president and CEO of Wal-Mart’s Chinese...
Storm Over Canadian MP's Flirtatious Emails to Xinhua Reporter
Fears of Chinese espionage have been inflamed in Canada by the revelation of flirtatious emails sent by Conservative MP Bob Dechert last year to Shi Rong of Xinhua’s Toronto bureau. From The Globe and Mail: This all came...
More Questions About Chinese Gymnasts’ Ages
From AP, via The Seattle Times: Birth dates found in online documents have raised questions about the age of another Chinese gymnast – bringing the total to three, or half the women’s team expected to contend for a...
China Cracks Down on Market ‘Ratholes’
From the Financial Times: China’s securities regulator has banned one fund manager from the country’s capital markets for life and another for seven years in a warning to the industry to clean up lax internal controls. The two...
The Shanghai Cord Blood Scandal
From Caijing Magazine: On 14 December 2005, Lu Yi signed an agreement with Shanghai Cord Blood Bank , under the terms of which the bank would store umbilical cord blood of her soon-to-be-born daughter for twenty years in...
Southern Metropolis Daily offers rare perspective on China’s recent showbiz sex scandals – David Bandurski
From China Media Project: Over the last week in China two entertainment scandals have topped headlines and chatrooms. Today, in one of the first editorials approaching the scandals from a larger social perspective and pointing out blindness to more fundamental issues raised by the cases, such as sexual abuse and harassment, Southern Metropolis Daily criticized […]
Actress records alleged sexual harassment on blog – China Daily
From China Daily: China’s entertainment industry is facing another sex scandal as a 22-year-old actress claims a director of the China Central Television (CCTV) asked her to sleep with him in return for a role in the TV drama “Painter Village”. Xiao Qiong(ËÇñÁêº) said on her blog that director Yang Yichao hinted that she might […]
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