· September, 2007

Stories about China from September, 2007

China: 17 Correlations for the 17th Party Congress

  20 September 2007

Wang Ling spoofs the 17 Party Congress in the coming October by listing out 17 correlations. For examples, 8 honors + 8 humiliations + harmonious society = 17; control the price of pork to 17 yuan per 0.5 kilogram; close 17,000 websites before the congress; etc (zh).

China: Netizen Juries Fighting For Justice

  18 September 2007

Wenbin in V360 posts a report about an injustice prosecution (zh): a young person (Pan Yue) helped bringing an old lady who fell down in the bus stop to a hospital in Nov 2006 in Nanjing. It turned out that the hospital fee was huge (RMB40,000) and the old lady's...

China: Web 2.0 Resists Brain Washing

  18 September 2007

Songsoa notices that Web 2.0 is not only a technological development, it has the power to resist brain washing propaganda of mass media. The appearance of mu zi mei, hu ge, and other seemingly immoral bloggers, signifies the disintegration of official propaganda (zh).

China: Hackers

  18 September 2007

Recently there are reports saying that Chinese hackers have been attacking foreign websites, some speculate that the hackers are government sponsored. William long recently also has the experience of being attacked with ARP poisoning and Trojan (zh). He feels that to some extends the Chinese government has to be responsible...

Hong Kong: Incredibubble!

  17 September 2007

David Webb has a analytical article on the China stock bubble and its impact and implication for Hong Kong: When the mainland bubble bursts, it will accelerate the onset of the first post-IPO banking crisis.

China: Has Crazy English gone crazy?

  17 September 2007

“Stand up, those who refused to be slaves……,” This is what Chinese national anthem tells. But in a class by Li Yang in Crazy English, over 3000 students kneeled down to their teachers. Is this a real thanksgiving or just a brainwashing of how to be a slave?

Hong Kong: Can Anson Chan Represent Pan-dem?

  14 September 2007

Anson Chan has announced that she will compete with Regina Ip on legislator's seat. The pan-dem tried to turn it into a battle for 2012 universal suffrage. Erynnyes wonders if Anson could really represent Pan-democratic force, as her image is more attached with former government official than a democratic fighter....

China: A Free Speech Court Case

  14 September 2007

Liu Xiao Yuan, a lawyer, blogs about his lawsuit against a blog hosting company, sohu.com, for deleting his posts. The court dismissed his lawsuit on Sept 12 and he called up several local mainstream media for news briefing, but none of the newspapers released the news (zh).

China: A Censored Lung Cancer Story

  13 September 2007

Minjian released an exclusive investigative story (as it has been censored by the Propaganda Department) about 4 mysterious deaths from lung cancer (zh). The 4 victims were workers in a pharmacy factory in Chongqin. One of the victims, Zheng, suspected that the cancer was related to chemical leaking as all...

China: Zhujian Delta Worker Band

  13 September 2007

Tang Wei Shan introduces a worker band, Green Band, in Zhujian Delta. The band was started 4 years ago in Shenzhen when two of the members were playing guitars in an open space. Their wish is to have singing tour around Zhujian Delta industrial zone. Their most recent performance was...

China: Survey On Foreign Magazine

  12 September 2007

Fons Tuinstra from China Herald discussed a survey by Interfax China on attitude towards foreign invested magazines in China in which 83% of respondents believed that foreign invested magazines are better. However, how many local Chinese can lay their hands on a foreign magazine? The blogger provided very good background...

China: Senior sues would-be Samaritan

  11 September 2007

An older woman is knocked down as she tries to board a bus and breaks her collarbone. A young man, the first to have just exited the bus, helps her up and takes her to the hospital. After she accuses and successfully sues him, a moral debate sweeps across the blogsphere: are we to still lend a helping hand?

China: How about SMS Spam?

  11 September 2007

The Chinese government started to censor SMS against harmful message, such as political “rumors”, including death figures in flood. However, when it comes to commercial SMS spam, it seems that no one is in charge. ESWN translated a blog post about a blogger trying to file complaint against annoying SMS...

Deforestation in Ghana & What China can learn from France?

  7 September 2007

In these times of globalisation and world trade, the challenge of how to protect the environment while ensuring increased economic growth appears to be a problem facing many countries. In this article we offer glimpses of this, first in Ghana through the post ‘Sweet ‘n Sour’, and in China in...

China: Banning Sexual Implication Content

  7 September 2007

Josie Liu from China in Transition blogged about the Chinese Government's effort in banning sexual implication content in T.V and radio broadcast. Despite the bans, there are more and more sexual implications in the media.

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