· July, 2007

Stories about China from July, 2007

China: Dispossessed farmers beaten

  21 July 2007

The local government wants to build a new administration tower, 240 farmers in Jiangxi province claim, but they don't even have enough to pay us back for the land it will be built on. On July 20 the developer moved on in and the villagers got in the way.

China: More about fake buns story

  20 July 2007

ESWN translated a Southern Metropolis Daily story that gives some background about how people figure out that the cardboard baozi (or buns) was a fake story.

China: Funny Typos

  19 July 2007

ESWN translated a blog post from Sohoxiaobao on some funny typographic mistakes that have political implication.

China: Fake News On Cardboard Buns

  19 July 2007

Last night, Beijing News Channel reported that the Cardboard Buns was a faked news directed by one of their reporter who made a public statement that he had paid the hawker to make the cardboard Buns or Baozi. However, Nu Qui Lu-wei from 1510 wondered whether the statement of the...

China: Stock cheat's blog and Internet regulation

  18 July 2007

Maya from DANWEI reported on how the investigation of a cheating investment blog ended up in a call for internet regulation. The blogger rightly pointed out that: Pioneer Eldest Brother exploited this combination of investor naiveté and information vacuum, but scouring the Internet for charlatans is not the best way...

China: Nanjing forced out by Transformers

  17 July 2007

A serious documentary film Nanjing was forced out from the theater by a commercial movie Transformers, Joel Martinsen from DANWEI translated a few pieces that addressed the issue.

Japan: Asia-Pacific Internet Usage

  17 July 2007

Nicholls from Japundit reported on the first comprehensive review of Internet behavior covering 10 countries in the Asia-Pacific region released by comScore: The average person in the Asia-Pacific region visited the Internet on 13.8 days in the month and spent 20.2 hours viewing 2,171 pages.

China: Rodent population problem

  16 July 2007

A lake swells and two billion rats flee into farmland, destroying many crops. A massive extermination campaign is launched bringing in ninety tons of rodent in less than a month and leaving bloggers questioning, of all things, their eating habits.

China: Olympic is not everything!

  16 July 2007

Zheng jinyang blogs a letter from a friend working in the human rights field who gave a urgent call to her colleagues: The grave human rights violation in else where China, especially Shanghai has not been addressed because we are so dam focus on Only Olympic and Beijing! When so...

China: Architecture Website

  16 July 2007

Jason Li introduced a Beijing based architecture firm, Atelier fcjz which takes up projects from all over China. The designs are showcased in their website.

China: 750,000 annual pollution deaths

  12 July 2007

750,000 premature deaths each year from air and water pollution—a statistic the Chinese government sought to keep secret for fear of social unrest should that be publicly known. Word's out now, and people aren't happy about having been lied to.

China: NGO website shut down

  12 July 2007

Jeremy Goldkorn from DANWEI gave more background about the shut down of NGO website, China Development Brief: Young commented that he had initially wanted to stay hush hush and try to sort the problem out. But someone posted information about the police raid to the ChinaPol listserv yesterday, which is...

China: Information flow

  12 July 2007

Postive Solutions rightly pointed out that: There is a huge thirst for information about China from within and from overseas, but no-one has the resources/inclination to sate it themselves and instead everyone is quite happy to use second, third and fourth-hand information.

China and Taiwan: Presidential House Debate

  12 July 2007

William long blogs a recent debate between China and Taiwan netizen on the marking of presidential house in google map (zh). Some mainland netizens marked the building “Fake Presidential House” and resulted in a debate among netizen across the border.

China: Black cotton factory

  11 July 2007

Wang hao fung from moobol posted a report and photos of an illegal black cotton factory in Wuhan city (zh). Workers were working in a terribly polluted environment.

China: Indifferent society

  11 July 2007

Lui qui lu wei from 1510 criticized the Chinese society being too indifferent and cruel(zh). Recently a young person was drowning in the flood, more than a thousands onlookers surrounded the scene. A year ago, some secondary school girls were forced into prostitution by their teacher, who were not charged...

Hong Kong: Interview with Zoula

  10 July 2007

The English version of the interview with Zoula (the so-called first blogger journalist in China) concerning his idea about citizen reporting, his observation of the 10th anniversary of reunification in Hong Kong has been posted at interlocals.net.

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