From Shanghai Daily (link): BEIJING police detained Dou WeiÔºàÁ™¶ÂîØÔºâ, a Chinese rock ‘n’ roll pioneer, for alleged arson this morning after he went out of control in the newsroom of Beijing News yesterday, and set fire to a car in front of the office, media reported today. Dou is also well known for being the […]
Read MoreFrom the USA Today (link) The visit United States: The Bush administration says Hu is here for an “official” visit rather than a “state visit” ” the most formal and prestigious welcome. Hu is staying at Blair House, the guest house for esteemed visitors, and gets a 21-gun welcome. He won’t have a formal state […]
Read MoreFrom the Independent (link) State-run internet news sites have stepped up their attempts to guard the Great Firewall of China by responding to a call for tighter control of the web with pledges to “self-censor”. The websites of China’s main publications, including the state news agency Xinhua, China Daily and the People’s Daily, agreed to […]
Read MoreFrom Los Angeles Times (link): In little more than a year on the job, Stanley Cheung, Disney‘s chief in China, can lay claim to this: “The Lion King” is coming to Shanghai this summer. “We have got to get our stories out,” says Cheung, a Hong Kong native who previously managed the Chinese operations of […]
Read MoreFrom IBN Live (Link): The completion of the first railway linking Tibet to other Chinese regions could fuel the spread of rat-borne diseases such as plague that mainly affect remote areas of northwest China, the state media said on Saturday. The railway, which will link the Himalayan region with the rest of China when it […]
Read MoreSince the “Rules on the Administration of Internet News Information Services” came out last September, government control over online content has intensified. Following are three recent examples of how the local authorities have acted on the regulations, and the subsequent reactions from the website editors and supporters. Example 1: The popular “Aegean Sea” (Áà±Áê¥Êµ∑Ôºâwebsite was […]
Read MoreFrom Xin Jing Bao (Beijing News), partial translation by CDT (the original Chinese version is here): The State Administration of Radio, Film and Television issued the “Notice of Further Enforcing the Management of the Involvement, Sponsor or Broadcast of National or Inter-province (inter-city or inter-district) TV Contests of Radio or TV Organizations” on Mar. 15, […]
Read MoreFrom The Financial Times (link): (registration required) When Mark Kitto received a draft contract late last year from Wiley, the US-listed publishing house, he had every reason to feel confident that his book about doing business in China would soon be released for sale.With China’s rise gripping global business, the British entrepreneur had a topical […]
Read MoreZhou Shengxian, head of SEPA, has been popping up all over the media landscape after making a statement to the 10th session of the National People’s Congress about the need for more concentration on environmental issues. The latest from Reuters via Planet Ark (link): “Scientific approach to development” might seem like at empty slogan, but […]
Read MoreFrom the Wall Street Journal (link): Despite its claims to special status as the guardian angel of unfettered expression, the Internet industry’s commercial success–and indeed that of the Internet itself–depends crucially on including in its mantras a commitment to protecting the ideas of private markets and free trade, ideas equally responsible for the long-running success […]
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