· October, 2006

Stories about China from October, 2006

China: water in Beijing

Joel Martinsen in DANWEI translates a discussion about water conservation in Beijing, one of the measure is a ID system for water consumption.

23 October 2006

China: Botched jobs

‘Yes, journalists in China do have it rough,’ Bullog blogger Siyi says back to a recent BBC article, ‘but we're not all the innocent victims that you seem to think’...

21 October 2006

China: Agricultural bank of China

Logan Wright points out that Agricultural bank of China is following the bailouts and the overseas listings of the other large state-owned banks (Bank of China, Industrial and Commercial Bank...

20 October 2006

China: Satiric SMS or libel

Joel Martinsen in DANWEI translated an article from Nanfang daily on a prosecution resulted from a political poem in Chongqin.

20 October 2006

China: censorship

Brian Chan in China Media Project reports on another censorship case. This time it is about a ban on all coverage of an incident at a county school in China's...

19 October 2006

China: labour law

Law Prof blogs about the comments of Amercian Chamber of Commerce on the draft of Chinese labour law.

19 October 2006

China: Where my Nobels at?

When one of the best writers in the country flees, is asked not to come back and then wins a Nobel prize in literature while in exile, would it be...

18 October 2006

China: labour and organization

Zheng Jinyan blogs about her workshop, “understanding China”, in Thailand. One of the session is on labour conditions and organizations in China (zh), it touches upon the relation between Africa...

18 October 2006

China: incestuous ad?

Joel Martinsen in DANWEI puts together some discussions about a recent skin-care adverstisment with the actress’ son saying that he wants to marry his mother when he gets old. It...

17 October 2006

China: shooting in Tibet

The opposite end of China puts together some Youtube videos on the recent shooting of Tibetian refugees at the Nepal border by the China PLA.

17 October 2006

China: piracy as microsoft marketing

Diligence China points out that when local software China Star sells at 10RMB while Microsoft Window sells at 500RMB, without piracy, Microsoft won't have a market share like today: Imagine...

17 October 2006

China: translation for Olympic

In order to prepare for the Olympic, the Beijing city has to double check its English signposts and other instructions. Sohoxiaobao has posted some translation jokes(zh): “folk culture village” is...

17 October 2006

China: nokia ivory cell-phone

Insertia from Taiwan calls for a boycott on Nokia's cell-phone: I Can't believe it. When most countries in the world forbid ivory trade, Nokia sell ivroy mobil phone in China,...

16 October 2006

China: blogging for justice

7 years ago, the girl friend of ken's friend died in the hospital probably because of the misjudgement of the doctor. All these years, he had been contacting lawyers, mainstream...

16 October 2006

China: tourism

Imagethief blogs some of his observation on tourism in China: “the Chinese like their tourism like their restaurants: well serviced, loud, sociable and smoky. “

16 October 2006

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Oiwan Lam
Oi wan Lam is the North East Asia editor. Email her story ideas or volunteer to write.