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06 Sept 05 : 53 | China: Iphonegirl a planned beauty? Local media yweekend did an investigative report on the Iphone Girl issue and it is yet a mystery whether the story is a public relation plan. ESWN has translated the local report. Source : Global Voices Online 23 hours ago |
05 Sept 03 : 27 | China: True or false? A fugitive sergeant’s diary Scheming frame-up, unlawful arrest and bitter escape journey, it’s not the story line of the new season of Prison Break , but a Chinese Police Sergeant’s unbelievable experience against his corrupt superior officer. Since the end of August, a post named “A fugitive sergeant’s diary” has... Source : Global Voices Online |
04 Sept 17 : 31 | Costa Rica: Lack of Transparecy with China Dean Córnito of La Suiza Centroamericana [es] criticizes Costa Rican president for the relations with China and the lack of transparency with some of the financial agreements, which includes the construction of a new national stadium. Source : Global Voices Online |
06 Sept 17 : 50 | East and South Asia: Suicide By Pesticide Ingestion Common As World Suicide Prevention Day approaches on September 10, a new study reaffirms that suicide is frequently committed by ingesting pesticides in many Asian countries. The study analyzed preferred suicide methods across the world to help policy makers devise the best strategies for suicide... Source : Global Voices Online 11 hours ago |
04 Sept 04 : 57 | China: Antimonopoly proceedings against Microsoft? Donald Clarke from Chinese Law Prof Blog looks into the argument concerning the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC)'s investigation on Microsoft's monopoly in China. Source : Global Voices Online |
04 Sept 04 : 57 | China: The Fictive Wu Jinglian Spy Case ESWN translated a Caijing report explaining how the Wu Jinglian Spy story got spread around from Internet news source to mainstream newspapers. Source : Global Voices Online |
04 Sept 04 : 51 | China: LV tatooed pig exhibition Kenneth Tan from Shanghaiist reports about an upcoming art fair in which a pair of pigs tattooed with Louis Vuitton logos will be exhibited. Source : Global Voices Online |
02 Sept 06 : 22 | China: Collective Punishment Michael from the Opposite end of China highlights the human rights report about collective punishment practice in parts of Xinjiang. Source : Global Voices Online |
01 Sept 13 : 58 | China: Cannot criticize the national soccer team? Angrychinese blogger quoted from sources said the Chinese Central Propaganda Department has issued instruction to prevent criticism against the national soccer team. Source : Global Voices Online |
01 Sept 11 : 30 | China: Yang Jia given death penalty in problematic trial After going to court last week, cop killer Yang Jia's first trial concluded today with the handing down of the death sentence. Yang has ten days to appeal for a second trial, which if he does will be followed by a review at the People's Supreme Court of his having been given the death penalty, to... Source : Global Voices Online |
28 Aug 04 : 59 | China: Iphone Girl Dedric Lam from Shanghaiist reports on how the Iphone Girl story has been traveled back to China. Local netizens have created a website for her, iphonegirl.cn, and urged netizens not to human-flesh search and publish her personal data. Source : Global Voices Online |
29 Aug 04 : 37 | China: The Cost of a Gold Medal Zhaomu re-posted a forum article which calculated the cost of a gold medal exemplified by the Olympic shooting team. It is estimated that a gold medal costs between RMB30 - 80 millions (around US4.5 - 10 million). Source : Global Voices Online |
28 Aug 04 : 59 | China: Translating New York Times Olympic Report Black and White Cat shows how the Xinhua has translated the New York Times Olympic Report into Chinese. Source : Global Voices Online |
27 Aug 06 : 44 | China: Cop Killer's Case The Shanghai Cop killer's or Yang Jia case was on court on yesterday (26 of Aug). Both Shanghai citizens and reporters were not allowed to attend the trial as all the seats were booked by local police. Liu Xiaoyuan pointed out that such kind of arrangement is de facto secret trial. Source : Global Voices Online |
25 Aug 11 : 03 | Nepal: India, China and the Maoists Nepali Netbook on the dynamics between India and China and how it affects politics in Nepal. Source : Global Voices Online |
26 Aug 05 : 04 | China: Olympic Regrets Chen XueLei reflected upon his Olympic experience since 7 years ago when Beijing applied for the hosting city. Now that the Beijing Olympics has obtained great success on stage, the blogger wonders if it is really a success for the majority of Chinese people. Source : Global Voices Online |
25 Aug 09 : 50 | China: Brain Damaged Netizen Syndrome WangXiaofeng listed out 13 symptoms for indicating whether a netizen is suffered from brain damage. The symptoms include a compulsion to read and comment posts even they don't really understand the texts; there is only right and wrong in their world view, and of course they are always on the right... Source : Global Voices Online |
21 Aug 16 : 18 | Morocco: China in the Olympics Innocent Whispers remarks upon China's role in the Olympic Games. Source : Global Voices Online |
21 Aug 06 : 42 | China: Sportswear Sponsor Xueyong noticed that Liu Xiang's withdrawal from Olympics has resulted in the loss of 3 billion yuan for his sportswear sponsors. The blogger pointed out that the focus on one or two sport stars reflected that the development of sport in China is driven from the top, not from public participation. Source : Global Voices Online |
20 Aug 06 : 27 | China: Cheering for the race traitors Those thin-skinned cyber-mobsters must have heatstroke; Chinese coach leads US women's volleyball team to victory against China and gets dissed by a chess grandmaster, then: The majority of the netizens disagreed with his view. The American team led by Lang Ping was received with warm cheers of... Source : Global Voices Online |
20 Aug 01 : 33 | China: India-US nuclear deal While anticipating a question regarding China in Katie Couric's upcoming interview of American presidential hopefuls Barack Obama and John McCain, Out Of The Way blogger Ellaconic has instead opted to look toward India and a less-observed issue, and presents a lot of background which led up to the... Source : Global Voices Online |
21 Aug 06 : 42 | China: Earthquake 100 days Aug 19 is the 100 days of Sichuan earthquake, Wang Ning posted photos of Beichuan earthquake zone for memorizing the deaths. Source : Global Voices Online |
18 Aug 06 : 57 | China: Great pity for Liu's Achilles tendon The national hero, world champion of the 110-metre hurdles in Athens Olympics, Liu Xiang, quitted the game dramatically this morning due to his inflamed tendon. BEIJING (AP) — Defending Olympic champion Liu Xiang of China pulled out of the 110-meter hurdles Monday, walking away from the blocks... Source : Global Voices Online |
18 Aug 04 : 19 | China: Minority Terrorist Michael from Two opposite end of China puts together news concerning bombings in Xinjiang and the Chinese official attitude towards minority. Source : Global Voices Online |
19 Aug 03 : 04 | China: Photos of empty seats and Beijing streets Wandering Light photoblogger Kevin German is in Beijing attending the Olympics, looking closely at ticket scalpers and empty seats and writing very poignant posts about the city, but the photos he's been taking, wow! Source : Global Voices Online |
18 Aug 04 : 19 | China: Audience A BBS thread at ifeng has a debate on the Chinese audiences' performance, some criticized that Chinese audiences shouldn't have booed the Japanese team during the volleyball match. Some defended that cheering and booing in ball game match is normal. Source : Global Voices Online |
15 Aug 14 : 58 | China: Fake news plagues Chinese sports reports So much speculation these past few days on the ages of some of the girls on China's Olympic gymnastics team, specifically He Kexin and a fair amount of references to keep it going. Famous Chinese sports writer and Bullog blogger Wang Xiaoshan has posted a dramatically-titled, ‘Fake news kills', in... Source : Global Voices Online |
15 Aug 03 : 37 | China: Olympic cheerleaders~ Via the Time China blog we find Youtuber selegant's footage of the cheerleading routine during yesterday's USA-Nigeria football match. One commenter writes: “That's the Sichuan Cats. You need to win tough competitions to volunteer at Beijing.” Do check out the Related Videos there. Source : Global Voices Online |
14 Aug 07 : 31 | China: Opening ceremony deceptions continue to disappoint This is starting to get a bit brutal; news today that the children seen in the harmonious 56 ethnic minorities—China's version of a multicultural policy—portion of the Olympics opening ceremony were actually all Han. Writes Twitter user @FrankYu: “China's Opn Cer. is facing a loss of... Source : Global Voices Online |
14 Aug 04 : 43 | China: Olympics as mass ritual, rite of passage, or just one big party? Is Zhang Yimou China’s Leni Riefenstahl, or an artist who has turned mass spectacle ritual into a modern art form? Haiyan Lee delves into this question, and others, at The China Beat. Source : Global Voices Online |
12 Aug 23 : 28 | China: Faking the Olympic opening ceremony, at what expense? Faked, harmonized, prettified, just when everyone seems so into the Games, out comes the news that two of the highlights of the opening ceremony were not what they appeared: production of a made-for-tv version of the footstep fireworks that walked across the sky from Tiananmen Square to the Bird's... Source : Global Voices Online |
12 Aug 04 : 53 | China: Flawless Girl at the Olympic Opening? China Digital Times translated an interview with Chen Qigang, the General Music Designer of the Opening Ceremony, who revealed that the that the voice everyone heard singing at the Opening Ceremony was actually a pre-recording of another child. Source : Global Voices Online |
14 Aug 14 : 35 | Jamaica, China: Masters of the Universe? She makes you think and she makes you laugh! Jamaican Annie Paul's post on the Olympics is a must-read. Source : Global Voices Online |
14 Aug 04 : 43 | Hong Kong and China: Pillar of Shame Exhibition During Olympics The Time Square in Hong Kong is having an art exhibition during Beijing Olympics until Aug 19. Two of the artworks look like the Pillar of Shame, an artwork to memorize the June 4 massacre. Local art group invited Szeto Wah to give a radical interpretation of the artworks, esp. the two pillars at... Source : Global Voices Online |
13 Aug 06 : 35 | China: Olympic Volunteer Guideline Alice Xin Lui from DANWEI translated a Caijing article which disclosed some Olympic volunteer guidelines: Watch out for drugs, bombs and journalists! Source : Global Voices Online |
12 Aug 21 : 32 | Brazil: Olympics Made in China Márcio Laurini [pt] explains why he is not following the Olympics: “There was lip-syncing in the Olympics opening ceremony, the fireworks were made by a computer, and sports are a dispute over the best doping. I'd rather read a book.” Source : Global Voices Online |
09 Aug 08 : 25 | China: More foreigners protest, aided by 2.0 tools One (possibly) last protest post before we get back on topic around here; first is the pseudo-guerrilla Exodus 8:1 mission of Christian activist Eddie ‘iamgadfly' Romero for human rights in China which has seem him paint murals on the walls of at least 2 rooms in upscale Beijing hotels and then go... Source : Global Voices Online |
07 Aug 21 : 47 | China: Second Olympic terrorism threat video released Following last month's Olympics terrorism threat/confession video claiming to be from a group called the Turkestan Islamic Party, another video has been released. Judging from the look of it, this clip will be even less convincing than the one before it. See the Xinjiang-based The New Dominion and... Source : Global Voices Online |
01 Sept 22 : 48 | Macau: Olympic winners parade Leocardo [pt] reports that the 63 Chinese medal winners have arrived today in Macau, part of a tour of China that, accorging to the blogger, made they look like “monkeys in a circus”: “Couldn't they have rested a few more days before this enormous embarrassment on the news across regional and... Source : Global Voices Online |
07 Aug 22 : 20 | China: Pollution levels around Olympic venues Off the Map blogger Sean Gorman and friends have taken Chinese government pollution data and made a mashup map of pollution levels in the areas surrounding Olympic venues in Beijing. Code to embed the map here. Source : Global Voices Online |
30 Aug 15 : 12 | Korea: Korean Mata Hari – North Korean Spy Scandal. While the Beijing Olympics was held, Koreans were excited about news of a series of medals. It even seemed that hot attention to political issues and arguments among the citizens since the inauguration of the new President have slowly diminished. The rate of support for the new President, which... Source : Global Voices Online |
29 Aug 03 : 00 | Costa Rica: President Arias Asks Dalai Lama to Postpone Visit Having to choose between two friends and which one to invite to a party is something awkward. This is what the Costa Rican president and Nobel Peace Prize Winner Oscar Arias Sánchez had to do recently. He asked the Dalai Lama to postpone his scheduled visit until next year, even when his visit was... Source : Global Voices Online |
28 Aug 21 : 37 | Georgia, Russia, Serbia: The Use (or Abuse) of Some Historical Facts? Serbian bloggers follow closely the situation in the Caucasus region. Many of them compared and analyzed the Kosovo issue and the newest opportunities in South Ossetia. Some of them were careful to express their own thoughts and mainly cited thoughts of politicians. Here is a post by Aleksandar T, a... Source : Global Voices Online |
26 Aug 23 : 06 | Macau: Crime rates on the rise Leocardo [pt] remarks that crime rates in on the rise in Macao: “In general, crime has increased more than 11% this year compared with the same period last year. We are exposed to professional thieves, many of them from mainland China, which makes it difficult to trace the problem. Authorities... Source : Global Voices Online |
26 Aug 01 : 35 | Syria and the Olympics Syria Comment discusses Syria's performance at the Summer Olympics, which just ended in Beijing, China. Source : Global Voices Online |
25 Aug 09 : 04 | Southeast Asia’s Olympic performance Southeast Asian countries garnered 12 medals in the recently concluded 2008 Beijing Olympics. Indonesia leads the pack with 5 medals: 1 gold, 1 silver and 3 bronze medals. Thailand bagged 4 medals. The most memorable victory was delivered by 33 year old boxer Somjit Jongjohor. “The former world... Source : Global Voices Online |
24 Aug 05 : 51 | Taiwan: Hopes in democracy in the midst of corruption scandal In the last two weeks, the Taiwan mainstream media has been occupied with the corruption scandal of the former president, Chen Shiu-Bian. According to the news report, a Swiss bank has spotted a large sum of suspected money (up to a billion Taiwan yuan) transfered from Taiwan to Switzerland and... Source : Global Voices Online |
20 Aug 04 : 19 | Silencing online speech in Tunisia Tunisia: More than just censorship Three more blogs have been blocked in Tunisia this week. These blogs, Mochagheb (Disturber) and Ennaqed (The Critic) and Place Mohamed Ali have all been particularly active in providing news of the struggle of The Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT), and... Source : Global Voices Online |
17 Aug 06 : 05 | Korea: Georgia Crisis See Global Voices special coverage page on the South Ossetia crisis. While Koreans enthusiastically follow the Beijing Olympics, they are also busy studying what’s going on between Russia and Georgia and what the attack means to world politics. It has been one of the main topics among bloggers. A... Source : Global Voices Online |
09 Aug 16 : 22 | Southeast Asia and Beijing Olympics Close to 200 athletes from the Southeast Asian region are participating in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The big news (as far as the region is concerned) during the opening ceremonies are the exclusion of Brunei during the event and the “improper” waving of the Singaporean flag by the country’s... Source : Global Voices Online |
