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On Friday, China Central Television’s sports channel, CCTV-5, held a ceremony to launch its new name: The Olympic Channel. But the revelry ended when Beijing TV host Hu Ziwei, the distraught wife of top sports anchor and sports department head Zhang Bin, walked up to the podium, grabbed the microphone, and accused her husband of [...]
A memorial is being held next week for the life of journalist, editor and author Kevin Sinclair. It will be a big one. The doyen of Hong Kong’s press corps was the last upholder of the tradition of China Coast journalism, standing in the lineage of men like Richard Hughes, Graham Jenkins and Austin Coates. [...]
AFP/Getty Images We’ve updated the story of Chinese dissident Hu Jia and his wife Zeng Jinyan a few times over the past year, including some happy news for the couple last month, the birth of a daughter. But 2007, which saw Zeng named to TIME’s list of the world’s 100 most influential people in May, [...]
It seems impossible that Beijing traffic could actually get worse–and crazier–than it already is but now we’ve shifted from something like 1000 new cars on the streets every day to 1500, believe me, it is getting worse by the week. No news there, except I still do wonder sometimes why the city government doesn’t just [...]
Financial markets in China are again rife with rumors of an imminent, one-off, significant revaluation of the renminbi. That a recent editorial in the Economic Observer Online made the case for just such a move is interesting. It’s a responsible, sober site, and this clearly added to the chatter in the markets. I personally remain [...]
A holiday greeting of sorts, from China’s good buddies in Tokyo… http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Japan_Test_Fires_Its_First_Raytheon_Built_Standard_Missile_3_999.html
Well, you saw it here first. Despite much gloom and predictions that the project would go ahead anyway, it appears as though the revolt of the middle classes in Xiamen (see post below) has triumphed. The following item appeared in a regional Chinese paper today: South Daily, Dec.20, Fujian provincial government and Xiamen city government [...]
While walking through the Wangfujing shopping district in central Beijing this weekend I noticed a couple long lines of people snaking across the pedestrian mall. Not an unusual sight, but the people’s motivation for standing in the cold was interesting. They were there to be in an advertisement. The ad is one that anyone in [...]
If you ever needed proof of the capricious nature of politics (I’m sure you don’t, but allow me the gambit) take a look at the amusing exchange that took place recently between Hong Kong’s Secretary for Home Affairs Tsang Tak-sing and the de facto opposition leader Anson Chan. Tsang accused Chan of being a “sudden [...]
