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06 Nov 09 visit Three Teens Drowned In Jingzhou Three reports from Xinhua, Southern Weekend and Tianya Forum about the tragic case of three university students who died while trying save others.
31 Oct 09 visit The Case of Reporter Yao Haiying Changjiang Business News reporter Yao Haiying reported on a case about the leaking of business secrets and finds himself the target of an investigation for graft. In frustration, he publicized his case on the Internet and got justice (more or less).
28 Oct 09 visit Donald Tsang Blames The Media For His Troubles Hong Kong SAR Chief Executive lashes out at the media for biased media coverage. Here are the front page stories in Apple Daily, Oriental Daily and The Sun over the past two weeks.
25 Oct 09 visit The Shanghai Illegal Cab Entrapment Case When 18-year-old Sun Zhongjie was 'entrapped' by a 'righteous hitchhiker,' he got so angry that he cut his small finger off with a chopper. Now his case is drawing national attention.
19 Oct 09 visit The Guanxian County Cyber Cafe Shutdown Cyber cafes in Guanxian county, Shandong province, have been shut down for more than two months. Could the reason be an Internet post about how the local family planning office forced a 9-month-pregnant woman to undergo an abortion during which mother...
18 Oct 09 visit The "Lift Lift Girl" of Shanghait An Internet post about a female protestor in People's Plaza (Shanghai) being carted away by the police drew plenty of netizen interest followed by censorship.
17 Oct 09 visit Chongqing Fisherman Buys Newspaper Ad To Thank Government A fisherman in Chongqing spent 100,000 yuan to purchase a full-page four-color newspaper ad to salute the anti-corruption campaign by the city government.
16 Oct 09 visit Should The White Haired Girl Marry The Evil Landlord? When a female university student said yes, a cultural debate ensues about social values, human dignity, freedom of choice, etc.
13 Oct 09 visit The Case Of Zhou Yongjun Western media coverage of the case of Zhou Yongjun is complemented with Chinese-language reports about him.
11 Oct 09 visit A Hot And Spicy Rape Case A Sichuan woman pretended to be a police officer and posted the details of a rape case on the Internet in a mocking manner. She is now in legal trouble with the real police.
08 Oct 09 visit On the "Complete Uselessness" of Democracy Translations of two essays: one about the "complete uselessness" of democracy and another rebuts it for being "neither here nor there."
26 Sep 09 visit Zhu Rongji and the Three Female Reporters Southern Weekend interviewed three female reporters who covered the senior Chinese government leaders and asked them for the past and present situations of reporting.
21 Sep 09 visit A Blogger Reflects On Blogging A continuously updated collection of random thoughts about blogging by this blogger.
17 Sep 09 visit Victims of Fishing Expeditions A white-collar driver in Shanghai picked up an ailing man who asked for a ride and was fined 10,000 yuan for operating an illegal taxi service. Chinese netizens reacted strongly against such entrapment tactics which sow social distrust.
13 Sep 09 visit More on the case of Yan Xiaoling Two Strait Metropolis Daily articles on the case of Yan Xiaoling, including about the netizens who are detained for making the Internet posts on the case.
09 Sep 09 visit Hong Kong Reporters versus "Shameless" Xinjiang Government Officials Xinjiang Government Information Office held a press conference to address the matter of Hong Kong reporters being assaulted last week.
07 Sep 09 visit Wal-Mart Workers Beat Customer To Death In Jiangxi province, a Chinese woman is stopped by five Wal-Mart employees after shopping for suspected shop-lifting. When she refused to cooperate with these five non-uniformed strangers, they beat her to death. Wal-Mart has made no comment more than...
05 Sep 09 visit The Legend Returns When a new version of the legendary online game Legend was released, players rebelled and paralyzed the game by standing at the city gates and blocking all other entrants.
27 Aug 09 visit These Photos Have Nothing To Do With News A newspaper photojournalist attempts to help a girl whom he met in Sichuan after the earthquake to open an online clothing store.
25 Aug 09 visit The Death of the Internet Addict Youth Deng Senshan Translation of the Southern Metropolis Daily article about the death of a young man at an Internet addict healing camping. This article got the editor fired from his job.
22 Aug 09 visit The Mysterious Village Surveillance Cameras A villager finds two security surveillance cameras aimed right at the front door of her home. Could it be because she had been doing petitions? Or is she just paranoid?
16 Aug 09 visit Surveillance Cameras in China: Privacy versus Security China has 2.75 million surveillance cameras installed already. Several of them were used to solve the murder of a female village official in Chengdu. What would the Chinese rather have? Privacy or security?
14 Aug 09 visit Yunnan Naked Girl Looks For Mother In order to get public attention about the injustices done to her and her family and also to search for her missing mother, a Yunnan girl posted nude photos of herself on the Internet.
06 Aug 09 visit 91 percent Of Rich People Are Children Of Senior Goverment Cadres Tracing how this apparently fake statistic came about and how it drew such broad citation.
04 Aug 09 visit Is Zeng Yike A Happy Girl? Zeng Yike may have been eliminated in the Happy Girls song contest, but she leaves behind many controversies even as she moves into a possibly brilliant future.
02 Aug 09 visit The Social Mosaic of Shishou The primary evidence in the case of the suicide of Foxconn worker Sun Danyong, including the mobile phone SMS, Internet chat questions and television surveillance tapes.
24 Jul 09 visit The Suicide of Sun Danyong The primary evidence in the case of the suicide of Foxconn worker Sun Danyong, including the mobile phone SMS, Internet chat questions and television surveillance tapes.
17 Jul 09 visit The Shaoguan Mass Incident A race riot between Han and Uighur workers in a toy factory located in Shaoguan, Guangdong. This would be the cause for the Urumqi riots on July 5, 2009. This post is continuously updated as more become known.
17 Jul 09 visit The Case of Yan Xiaoling When 25-year-old Yan Xiaoling died, her mother said that it was murder by gang rape but the police said that it was complications from an ectopic pregnancy. This case has resulted in the arrest of at least five persons for contents published on the...
05 Jul 09 visit The Urumqi Mass Incident A mass incident occurred in Urumqi (Xinjiang) on July 5, 2009. This is a continuously updated post.
04 Jul 09 visit Super Girl Li Yuchun's Family Planning Ad A Chongqing town family planning department used an unauthorized photo of Super Girl winner Li Yuchun and created an Internet storm.
23 Jun 09 visit The Incomprehensible China And Its Difficult Problems Translation of a blog post about how a Chinese tries to understand China.
21 Jun 09 visit The Shishou Mass Incident In Shishou city, a man died under suspicious circumstances. The police came to seize the body for immediate cremation but thousands of citizens took to the streets to repel them.
07 Jun 09 visit The "Virgin" Schoolgirl Prostitutes of Kunming Twists and turns in the case of the two elementary school girls who were arrested as prostitutes but later tested to be "virgins" (or maybe not).
05 Jun 09 visit The Chengdu Bus Fire Spontaneous combustion or planned arson? Graphic photos from the fire on the Chengdu bus.
27 May 09 visit An Investigation Into The Jiangsu Hospital AIDS Rumors A pretty female pharmaceutical company sales representative, bribery, wanton sex, doctors and nurses, AIDS and human flesh search came togehter to become AIDS Gate at the Jiangsu Province People's Hospital.
25 May 09 visit Yu Qiuyu's Earthquake Essay On The Anniversary of the Wenchuan Earthquake Chinese writer Yu Qiuyu offers a controversial response to criticisms about his activities around the first year anniversary of the Wenchuan earthquake.
25 May 09 visit The Yingde Mass Incident Overseas Chinese from Vietnam protested government corruption in Yingde city.
11 May 09 visit The 4.25 Anchu Traffic Accident When the request came to delete an Internet post that questioned how the traffic police handled/caused a traffic accident, the local Yunnan forums rebelled and refused to comply.
08 May 09 visit Female Sports Reporter Files Libel Case Famous sports commentator Huang Jianxiang made a blog post to say that the national soccer trainer had caused a top female reporter to have an extra-uterine pregnancy. Now the purported subject Lu You is suing him for libel.
06 May 09 visit Thirty-Year-Old Execution Photos The reason why 30-year-old execution photos of a corrupt government official is very red-hot on the Intenet today is because people hate corruption and demand decisive, powerful and public actions now.
30 Apr 09 visit Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China Reacts Differently To Jackie Chan's Comment Southern Weekend reviews the different responses in Hong Kong, Taiwan and mainland China to Jackie Chan's comments.
27 Apr 09 visit What Did Jackie Chan Say? My transcription of what actor Jackie Chan said at the Bo'ao Forum. You can decide for yourself what the context is.
21 Apr 09 visit Xinjiang Newspaper Gets Privately Banned A newspaper is suddenly banned from entering the properties managed by a large corporation, which had recently gotten negative press from that newspapers. All sorts of explanations were given.
17 Mar 09 visit A Visit To Chen Guangcheng's Family Investigative journalist Wang Keqin details his failed attempt to visit the family of blind human right activists Chen Guangcheng.
17 Mar 09 visit A Female BFSU Student Blogger In Trouble A female Beijing Foreign Studies University student blogged that she was forced to quit school after blogging critically about the Ministry of Education.
21 Feb 09 visit Eluding the Cat A man dies in a Yunnan province while playing a blindfolded catch game, which the netizens found to be an unbelievable explanation. So the Yunnan government invited a netizen committee to investigate on site and issue a report without interference.
19 Feb 09 visit The "Bad Things" About Democracy Translation of a blog post about how a Chinese house church that advocates freedom and democracy will not practice freedom and democracy itself.
14 Feb 09 visit The Shoe Thrower In Cambridge yWeekend interviewed a Chinese student who sat right behind the person who threw a shoe at Premier Wen Jiabao during the Rede Lecture at Cambridge University.
14 Feb 09 visit A Photo Play Of The CCTV FIre A series of high-resolution photos of the fireworks that eventually set the CCTV building on fire.

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