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 […]
Thursday, August 28, 2008
*Update: See postscript at the end of this entry
After seven grinding exciting years of preparation, the Olympics are mercifully sadly over. So what did the foreigners think of it all? The “western media” are sometimes accused of prejudice against China, focusing too much on the negative and ignoring the positive. Not so Charles McGrath of […]
Thursday, August 21, 2008
One of the responses to Michael Phelps winning more gold medals than most countries is a joke that has been doing the rounds in China, roughly and partially translated below:
Everyone’s upset about Michael Phelps winning gold medals in the 100m, 200m, 400m and 1500m breaststroke, backstroke butterfly and freestyle. Each country has demanded that more […]
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Xinhua’s announcement of the death of Hua Guofeng is short and sweet:
Hua Guofeng, a former leader of the Communist Party of China (CPC), died on Wednesday at the age of 87.
Hua “died of illness at 12:50 p.m. on Wednesday in Beijing,” said an official statement.
Hua was “an outstanding CPC member, a long-tested and loyal Communist […]
It was a closely guarded secret that 9-year-old earthquake survivor Lin Hao would accompany Yao Ming in leading China’s Olympic delegation into the stadium at the opening ceremony. There were 32 children in Lin Hao’s primary school class in Yingxiu. Only ten of them survived. When Lin Hao escaped from the collapsed building, he carried […]
The jury is still out on whether western protesters benefit or harm their cause when it comes to China and the Olympics. The international torch relay exposed the enormous gulf in perceptions, with demonstrators seemingly unaware of how much they had solidified domestic support for the government here in China. But that’s not what this […]
Well, at least Huanhuan appears to have died happy, though also a little surprised. The creator of this piece must have read a recent article in the Wall Street Journal.
*Important Notice: This entry is intended for amusement purposes only. Black and White Cat does not endorse the murder of Olympic mascots, no matter how annoying […]