Archive for July, 2010

Southern Weekend reports the reappearance of more melamine-tainted milk. The culprits, Dongyuan Dairy Products, have apparently been distributing the yet-to-be-destroyed raw materials from the 2008 incident.
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A musical parody of "Beijing Welcomes You" -- the official song of the 2008 Olympics -- sweeps the net, but the lyrics have been changed to address the fact that the city is, at the moment, basically on fire.
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Even as Evan Osnos was writing about the beating of Fang Xuanchang, an editor at Caijing magazine, renowned investigative journalist Wang Keqin was posting on his blog about the beating of another Chinese journalist, this time a CCTV reporter in Shanxi province.
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"In education, recruitment, employment and various other sectors, the pattern of power-retention by the powerful is solidifying, yet the rights of the lower classes often suffer encroachment. The hardening of the hierarchy is right before our eyes. The channel of upward mobility for the lower classes is narrowing by the day."
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On June 28th three netizens were sentenced to jail terms between one and two years for libel in their appeal trial in Fuzhou in what was the latest ripple effect of the mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of Yan Xiaoling in February 2008.
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Just when you thought the Western press was getting better, the Washington Post publishes a really, really misleading op-ed about last year's Xinjiang riots.
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A quick-and-dirty look at the media treatment of the Urumqi Riots Anniversary.
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Some updates on the situation at ChinaGeeks HQ. Why are there Freedur ads? Why does ChinaGeeks suddenly offer "services"? Get the truth, inside.
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Baidu has taken a lot of heat for its censorship policies and its misleading advertising. How much of that is really fair?
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