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.
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’ in: 中国是记者最大的监狱？ 监狱，还是桑拿中心？ ‘China is the largest prison for journalists?’ Prison? Or sauna center? BBC 最近一篇文章中说：”The media rights group Reporters...
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 of China, China Construction Bank). This time it may ask for a USD$100 billions tag!
China: Social harmony with one child policy?
Positive solution discusses whether social harmony is possible with one child policy.
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.
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 western Gansu Province where the principal was allegedly found to have drawn blood from scores of pupils over several years...
China: business social responsibility
Fang Jun at mindmeter blogs about China Entrepreneur Summit 2006. This year the them is “Chinese business ethics at the age of Globalization” (zh).
China: How to improve Beijing's quality of life
Will from imagethief have ten recommendations on how to improve Beijing's quality of life.
China: labour law
Law Prof blogs about the comments of Amercian Chamber of Commerce on the draft of Chinese labour law.
China: decriminalization of sex worker
Li Yin-he argues for the decrminalization of sex worker, including prostitutes and “second wives” (zh).
China: eating Chinese
Lyn Jeffery introduces great blogs and forums about Chinese food.
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 a bit disingenuous to accuse the Swedish Academy of bias against awarding Nobel prizes to mainland Chinese? Perhaps not, judging...
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 and China social movement. Zheng stressed that boycotting China product won't help the situation, NGOs should work on the protection...
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 results in a debate whether the ad has crossed the line of social standard. Joel also translated a post from...
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.
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 what China’s software industry might look like if piracy hadn’t killed off a viable, home-grown alternative to Microsoft?
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 translated into “racist park”; a fired chicken dish is translated into “government abuse chicken”; and the word “dry” in Chinese...
China: wikipedia access chart
Andrew Lih shows the distribution of wikipedia's access in China in a chart form.
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, Guangdong. Please let your frind know it: Boycutt Nokia Ivory Phone.
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 media and pursuing in court in order to expose the case to the public. Ken then suggested to him, why...
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. “
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