Stories about China from April, 2007
China: Rat Poison
Tim Beckenham from Shanghaiist puts together reports on recent rat poison incidents which caused hundreds of illnesses in northern part of China.
Japan: Number 1 Language of Bloggers Worldwide
It will likely come as quite a surprise to the English-speaking world that the number one language of bloggers worldwide, in terms of number of posts, is not the “language of international communication”, as English is typically regarded. Nor, before the Chinese chime in, is it the language of the...
Brunei: Anti-China Demonstration in Japan
The blogger at Daily Brunei Resources, currently on an official visit to Japan encounters demonstrators protesting against the visit of Chinese premier in Tokyo.
Sudan: Khartoum Explosion, Death By Stoning, Tortured Journalist & Chinese “Musical” Diplomacy
Sudan has been witnessing interesting developments in the past few weeks. The most recent one is the Khartoum ammo truck explosion, which Mimz blogged about: A little over 24 hours ago a series of extremely boisterous explosions took place in one of the military sites availed for storing ammo, in...
China: Nailhouse questions remain
With all the blogging and reporting that's been done on the now-infamous nailhouse, Davesgonechina takes a long look back—two, actually—and still finds many unanswered questions.
China: Shanghai correspondents gather
In an age of declining numbers of English-language foreign correspondents, the few remaining in Shanghai are making the most of the moment, the latest in a series of related posts from Shanghai-based Dutch China consultant and China Herald blogger Fons Tuinstra.
China: Losing the lottery
Via China Digital Times, Roland Soong at EastSouthWestNorth translates a report from Southern Weekend looking at the spread of the illegal “Mark 6″ lottery throughout Southern China.
China: The lives of retired athletes
Professional Chinese athletes are known to undergo some of the toughest training regimens in the world, but does this prepare them for post-competition careers? Roland Soong at EastSouthWestNorth translates a recent post from marathoner-turned-blogger Ai Dongmei, “If my child wants to be an athlete, I'll break her legs first.”
China: Google playing dirty
Google got some positive bloggage of its recently-released Chinese-language input software, and then Chinese bloggers discovered some impropriety in the program code, leading to Google's apology.
China: Blogger to hang up column
Imagethief blogger Will Moss writes of plans to end his career as the Little Red Blog columnist for tech news website CNET next month: “China geeks with a writing jones who are interested in carrying the torch should get in touch.”
China: Renewed unrest in Dingzhou?
Pro State In Flames blogger Moogee writes yesterday of a freeway roadblock in Hebei province's Dingzhou village which allegedly lasted forty minutes, led to a 500 vehicle-long traffic jam and disrupted train service. [zh]
China: Queer Tibet
Did you know Lhasa, capital of Tibet, has its own gay bar? Gay bloggers too. Via Jeremy Goldkorn at Danwei, that and more from Fridae.com correspondent Dinah Gardner.
China: On Wang Xiaobo ten years later
Blogger and Life Weekly editor looks back at another renowned cultural critic—Wang Xiaobo, on the tenth anniversary of Xiaobo's death, how he relates to works from someone a generation older than him, and how Xiaobo ended up on the cover of Life Weekly. [zh]
China: Greening rock ‘n’ roll
Kaiser Kuo, strategy director at Ogilvy China blogs on a recent meeting with two stylish Greenpeace campaigners and their plans to “promote green consciousness” at the Midi Music Festival in Beijing next month.
China: Memedia Issue 3: New century for grassroots media
Another benchmark for the vibrant Chinese blogsphere, key bloggers and big names have come together to form Memedia, home to a collectively-written weekly roundup of the biggest stories from the Chinese blogsphere. Writes Virtual China's Lyn Jeffery: Coming from the combination of three terms, Me/Meme/Media. Memedia will provide interesting things,...
China: Inner-city toxics plant protested
In November last year, construction began on a chemical plant in Haicang district, located on Xiamen island in the capital of Southwestern China's Fujian province, slated to produce the solvent toluene, terephthalic acid, benzene and, for example, an expected annual output of 800,000 tons of the toxic para-xylene which, according...
China: Comment on Nail House
Hegelchong translates parts of a comment written by XiaoWu on the Nail House report: Imagining the victim as a heroine of human rights is only a wishful thinking of ordinary people. … …
China: Though I am Gone
Yunnan Film Festival was suspended because of the nomination of documentary “Though I am Gone” (我虽死去). Danwei contacted the organizers of the festival: they said they did not yet know when they would be able to reschedule it. However, the entire film is on youtube now.
China: Timely Sand Storm
Rosu blogs photos of a sand storm interrupting the speech of the vice minister of the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) during a tree planting event.
Northeast Asia: Toxic Sandstorm
Pauken from Ohmynews writes about the toxic sandstorm in Northeast Asia: Floating dust carrying heavy metal materials from Chinese factories are invading the lungs of people from the Asia Pacific.
China: Implications of the “Nail house” case
China Media Project has a nice round up on the media discussion concerning the implications of the Nail house case.
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