Latest posts by John Kennedy from August, 2007
China: Bringing blogging to the countryside
Three years ago this man shot to fame when he blogged a bloody murder that took place in broad daylight downtown Beijing and the botched police handling of the case. Now a veteran of the citizen reporter game, he's taking his blog on the road, to rural northern China.
China: Blogs deleted, barred and officially backed
An eventful week on the backside of the Chinese blogsphere with an entire blogging website desisted, one high-profile blog deleted and another put on the unmentionable list; two web 2.0 companies battle it out in the courts and one novice blogger tries to gain readers the nouveau-riche way.
China: Chongqing home buyers cheated
Don't mess with Chinese homeowners. A property development company in one central Chinese city tried backing out of an agreement which left empty-handed people who thought they had already bought a new home and led to angry and destructive retaliation, including clashes with police that netizens are saying turned violent.
China: One Olympics, One Voice?
European and American fighters for press freedom have infiltrated the capital, Canadian-Tibetan activists have gone underground and blogged from around the country about what's been called the Darfur Olympics, the...
China: Blogger goes to court
Back in late February, bridge blogger I, Yee wrote a post on the plight of Yetaai, an open source programmer in Shanghai who had noticed that a website of his...
China: Lost names of the brick kiln slaves
Following up on the horrific brick kiln slave scandal from earlier this summer, one journalist blogger has launched an online campaign to find the names and whereabouts of the more...
China: Bad time to invest West
“Timing is everything, seasoned investors tell us,” and EngagingChina blogger Geoff Nairn writes in ‘Bad Timing‘, “and the Chinese government's much-publicised recent decision to start investing directly in western companies...
China: Are aluminum prices fixed?
Lou Schwartz at the Asia Business Intelligence blog manages a very detailed and clear analysis of the fluctuations in aluminum prices over the last fifty years in ‘Price-Fixing in China?...
China: Baidu rolls out 1GB blogs
Chinese search engine Baidu has announced its Baidu Space bloggers now have 1GB of server space to work with, writes China Tech Stories blogger Mao Xianjia, making “hi.baidu one of...
China: Nokia's Creative Commons infringement?
“Everybody can freely use my Flickr pictures under the Creative Commons license, and because of that they end up on many websites,” writes Shanghai-based blogger Marc van der Chris in...
China: Net buzz trends for first half of 2007
Sam Flemming of the China Internet Word of Mouth blog has posted the first bi-annual review for 2007 from the consulting firm of the same name, noting a focus on...
China: $100 laptops made here, just not sold
The US $100 laptops are being made in China, writes Shanghaiist‘s Mathew Seigal, and two hundred million people in this country earn less than one US dollar a day, so...
China: Motorbikes banned in Dongguan
“Today is the last first day of a month that motorcycles can legally ride the streets of Dongguan,” wrote manufacturing executive and blogger A. Bryson on August first. “Come September...
China: Why not marry an Army man?
Bill Belew at PanAsiaBiz takes a look at the top five reasons China Youth Daily says two-thirds of Chinese women want to marry military men, the results of a survey...
China: A new way to send money
The American blogger at China Challenges posts a house ad: a new way of sending money to China.
China: Photos from a Chinese factory
The Responsible China blogger Erica Schlaikjer links to a “wonderful collection of photos and videos depicting the 24/7 lives of Chinese factory workers” in ‘Life in a Chinese factory‘.
Hong Kong: Queen's Pier protesters carried off
More than twenty-four hours after the hour the Hong Kong government was slated to begin destruction of the Queen's Pier in downtown Hong Kong, writes Sina blogger and Phoenix TV...
China: Literary review blog back
Staff writer at the Chinese media news blog Danwei Joel Martinsen is back from beyond the great firewall of China with Twelve Hours Later, the latest location of Martinsen's ongoing...
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