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Bo Xilai outshone by “people’s judge” Zhai Shuquan 23 Aug 2013 | 11:06 pm
Yesterday, August 22nd, Bo Xilai’s trial got underway in Jinan, Shandong Province. Accused of accepting bribes, corruption, and abuse of office, Bo gave a spirited defence of himself while frequent po...
China’s two greatest Internet rumor mongers and “black PR” philanderers arrested 23 Aug 2013 | 01:44 am
Although the entire foreign press corps and many Chinese Internet users are focused on the trial of Bo Xilai right now, many newspapers and websites are devoting space to a news story and propaganda c...
Xue Manzi: How Chinese social media can be a force for good 20 Aug 2013 | 05:12 pm
Contrary to what some media outlets may have you believe, it’s not all economic doom, societal gloom, and underhand politics in China. The front page yesterday of the Hainan-based Southern Metropolis ...
Chengguan go easy on man who constructed Beijing’s “most awesome illegal building” 16 Aug 2013 | 11:04 pm
The news has been dominated in recent days with stories relating to the somehow sudden discovery of a three-story villa covered in shrubbery sitting atop a 26-story building in western Beijing. Now, a...
Job available: Sales Executive at Danwei 招聘: 销售主管 15 Aug 2013 | 06:29 pm
Position: Sales Executive 销售主管 at Danwei Beijing We’re looking for a Beijing-based sales executive to join our growing team and sell our expanding range of research products. Main Responsibility Dr...
“Cash and gifts” will get your child into the right class 14 Aug 2013 | 02:24 am
Last year the New York Times published an exposé on the culture of corruption in the Chinese schools admissions system, with rich parents able to buy their children into the best schools. But less wel...
The branded sex toy business – Zhang Xiaoyu 12 Aug 2013 | 07:27 pm
The BBC recently published a story titled Opening a sex shop in China, glossed as such: In China, sex is not a frequent topic of conversation, but one 23-year-old graduate in China is hoping to chang...
Portrait of a Chinese P2P lender 9 Aug 2013 | 11:48 pm
Peer to Peer (P2P) lending websites allow users to lend and borrow money directly to and from each other. China’s first P2P lending website, PPDai.com, launched in 2007. As of 2013, there are scores o...
“Are you still prostrating yourself before foreign milk powder?” 6 Aug 2013 | 05:16 pm
The vast majority of Chinese daily newspapers yesterday featured the massive New Zealand milk powder product recall as a front page story, most as either the leading headline or as a large and promine...
Is Shanghai’s current heatwave even hotter than the notorious summer of 1934? 31 Jul 2013 | 02:07 am
Talk about hot news, or: hot off the press. A dead heat has settled in, and images of fiery thermometers and children splashing in pools have cropped up on front pages of newspapers around China alon...
