· November, 2007

Stories about Chinese from November, 2007

Hong Kong: Street Market Festival

The last open space wet market in Central Hong Kong is about to vanish because of urban development. Citizen reporter gumpz reports on the recent street market festival for saving...

22 November 2007

China: Bullog International

The Chinese Blog Service Provider Bullog has been closed for more than a month by now and they are yet to wait for the official approval document for re-opening the...

21 November 2007

China: Loong not Dragon

Lanzhou city urged to standardize the translation of Chinese dragon into “Loong” as the two words convey very different imagine. Zishuo suggests to translate the word into “Yoooooog” as the...

21 November 2007

China: Mars Language

Lu ren is so frustrated about the sensitive words censorship that he starts to explore the application of Mars language (zh): a combination of Chinese words and Pinyin. For example,...

21 November 2007

China: Writing Together

Kuanfeng introduces (zh) a website 17xie.com that encourage users to write together. The website provides help to publication with real papers.

20 November 2007

Hong Kong: Pan Democrats’ Dark Day

The Pan democrats have lost a bitter battle in the recent district council election. Before the election, the pan-dem worried that they wouldn’t be able to keep all their seats...

20 November 2007

China: Social Stability via Negotiation

Sun Liping argues that it is rather unlikely for China to face major social turmoil nowadays (zh) because the market economy has divert social conflicts and there aren't any major...

20 November 2007

Hong Kong: Waterloo for Pan-dem

Yesterday was the district council election day in Hong Kong. The pro establishment party Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong has won 115 seats, while the...

19 November 2007

China: Professor Shot to Death by Police

Liu Xiaoyuan comments on a recent news about an assistant professor being shot to death in Guangzhou city by local police (zh). According to the police report, the gunshot was...

16 November 2007

Hong Kong: Uwants

Poon Wai Hang blogs about the most popular internet forum in Hong Kong, Uwants (zh). It ranks second among traditional Chinese language webistes, however, the sources of income are very...

16 November 2007

China: Doctoral Student Accuses SARFT of Movie Censorship

Dong Yanbin, a doctoral student in China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL), accused Beijing UME international movie theater and the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) of castrating Ang Lee’s blockbuster Lust,Caution, Jinghua Times reported on Wednesday. His accusation had inflamed a new tide of online criticism on SARFT.

16 November 2007

China: Democrat claims he was forced out of election

It's election season in China again, and so far that means at least one accusation of vote-fixing against independent candidates; this time it's a retired professor in eastern China's Shandong province who sought to run on the populist vote.

15 November 2007

Hong Kong: Putonghua is a Chinese Language

Diumanpark pointed out that Putonghua is just one of the Chinese Languages. He criticized the Hong Kong government language policy for equalizing Putonghua as “The” Chinese languages and killing all...

14 November 2007

China: Spicy Crayfish

Hegel Chong wrote the migration of Crayfish from Louisiana to Japan and then China (zh). Now it has become the most famous street food in major cities: spicy crayfish.

13 November 2007

China: Art of Censorship

Zhao Mu criticizes the head of CCTV, Yang Wei Guang, who described censorship practice as art in handling with politics (zh).

13 November 2007

China: Stock Market

Chong Nanhai from AQ weekly shows how the China stock market works by giving the Aeropace Communications Holding (600677) as an example [zh]. The stock price has been dropped from...

13 November 2007

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Oiwan Lam
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