· December, 2007

Stories about Chinese from December, 2007

China: Pollution map of China released

Just days after organizers of next year's Beijing Olympics say the games might need to be rescheduled due to harmful pollution levels, prominent environmentalists release their China Air Pollution Map, showing how and where more than 4,000 corporations—multinationals among them—have left their toxic mark, names included.

17 December 2007

China: Mock Press Conference

Zhao Shilong blogs about a mock press conference organized by the Journalism department of Zhongshan University for training their students (zh).

17 December 2007

China: Fake Meat at University Canteen

Zhaomu blogs about the fake meat issue at Peking University's Canteen. Because of the rise of pork price, the canteen used bean fiber as substitution. When the issue had been...

17 December 2007

China: Public Opinion on Xiamen PX

Joel Martinsen from DANWEI reports on a public opinion poll on the construction of the Xiamen PX chemical factory. 55,376 of 58,454 votes were cast against the project. Lian yue...

14 December 2007

China: Forgetting Nanjing Massacre

Yesterday (December 13) was the 70 year memorial of Nanjing Massacre. The Chinese government is trying to downplay the historical issue by stressing that they don't want to stir up...

14 December 2007

China: Most Searched Questions

Keso compares the 10 most searched “what and how questions by Google (English) and Baidu (Chinese) and he finds out that Chinese speakers are more concerned with money and stock...

14 December 2007

China: Government Subsidy for China Petro

Izaobao wonders why Sinopec and China pectro are asking for government subsidy, on the other hand, investors are gaining huge amount of dividend from the companies profit (zh).

14 December 2007

China: Bullog's top stories of 2007

Is it top ten year-end list time yet? Bullog International blogger Song Shinan gives us eight choices [zh] in a vote for blog story of the year at Bullog, the...

13 December 2007

China: Please, Give Me a Job

Although there are almost half a year before graduation, the seniors in the universities of China have already thrown themselves into the cutthroat job-hunting war. Those ready-to-be graduates are busy running about the various job fairs, which can often attract tens of thousands of senior students flocking to seek their ideal work.

13 December 2007

China: Laowai Blog

Kenneth Tan from Shanghaiist translated a post from a popular local forum (zh) commenting on Laowai's blogs writing on China.

12 December 2007

Hong Kong: Tech-donation

Charles Mok blogs about the newly established project, Tech-donation, in Hong Kong (zh). It is organized by the Hong Kong Council of Social Service and Techsoup.

11 December 2007

China: Liberal Generation

Li Yihe expresses a wish that her generation can take the lead in setting the liberal tradition in Chinese politics (zh).

10 December 2007

China: WTO Consultation Website Closed

World Trade Organization's consultation website: http://www.wto-tbt.gov.cn/ (zh) has been temporary closed down by the Chinese government as the website has not reconfirmed its registration (Beian) in the information department (zh).

10 December 2007

China: A blow to citizen bloggers

Below is Zola's recount of what he's been through over the past few days and his abrupt conclusion. In a second blog post since his forced return earlier this week...

7 December 2007

China: Don't Go to Macau

The news about Mainland tourists beaten up by police in Macau has spread very quickly in the internet. William long blogs his own experience in traveling to Macau and urges...

7 December 2007

China: Tourists in conflict with Macao police

Mainland tourists broke into a conflict with riot police in Macao due to the controversy with local tour guides on excessive cost. It might reflect a troubling problem: how can tour guides earn what they deserve? By backhander, or by service?

7 December 2007

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