Friday, September 12, 2008
New advert for language classes joins older government health warning:
“Teacher Hu’s English CAN SPREAD AIDS“
(h/t Hecaitou)
Friday, September 12, 2008
Another 9/11 anniversary. Three thousand dead. A terrible tragedy. A horrific crime.
Five and a half years into the invasion and occupation of Iraq, a million dead, give or take a hundred thousand or so. So much destroyed, so many dead they have to be counted by survey like voters in an opinion poll. No […]
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
On Monday, Hong Kong’s media were busy fussing over trivialities after Sunday’s Legco elections, getting bogged down in irrelevant details like names of candidates and parties; who won, who lost; turnout down to 45% compared with 55% in 2004 etc, etc.
But Network News Broadcast - the authoritative voice of reason that unites the […]
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
On August 13, ITN’s John Ray was arrested while covering a protest in Beijing:
Police in Beijing roughed up and detained a British journalist after he covered a Free Tibet protest close to the city’s main Olympic zone earlier today.
The incident appeared to be the clearest breach yet of the host nation’s promise of free media […]
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
In 1965, Beijing demolished its ancient city wall and turned it into the 2nd Ring Road. More useful than a wall, perhaps, but not so pretty.
However, according to the February 1931 edition of Modern Mechanics, the KMT government had much bigger plans - to turn the Great Wall of China into the Very Long Road […]