A group blog about Chinese tech, media and design
(This is the expanded version of a series of tweets I posted on Monday; they’re collected in a 88 Bar post here.)
Weibo pushes out about a dozen general news notifications a day about everything from trending topics to celebrity gossip to major world events. Monday afternoon, on my way…
Continue readingWatching the Election from The Post-Truth Future
Interlocals.net “is a platform for facilitating cross-border dialogue on critical issues
related to culture, gender, environment, social justice, peace,
global/local politics, media movement, social movement and
transformation.”
What makes it special is that it does so by providing the local perspective on each issue or news item. “For example, when Japanese prime minister Junichiro Koizumi visited the
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“The people’s heroes will never fade”
Chinese UN peacekeeper Lieutenant Colonel Du Zhaoyu was killed in Lebanon by an Israeli rocket on July 25, along with three other UN peacekeepers. China was already not supportive (to say the least) of Israel’s bombing of Lebanon and Lebanese civilians, and this death only adds fire to an…
Continue readingonline memorial for slain Chinese UN peacekeeper
The last stretch of the Qinghai-Tibet railway between Golmud and Lhasa has now been completed. The first train left from Goldmud, Qinghai on Saturday the 1st of July after president Hu Jintao cut the ceremonial ribbon. The day of the opening was the same as the 85th anniversary of the Communist Party of China.
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Continue readingRailway on the roof of the world