Barely a week goes by without Western media reporting on the latest trademark, copyright or IP infringement coming out of China. Just today I read that Chinese companies are distributing fake Icewine. Touting it to the rising middle-class that are looking for ways to show off that don’t involve a Mercedes and 30,000 RMB dinners. …Read More
Skype, the internet telephony service and instant-messaging application, has been non-operational, globally, for the past 24 hours. It’s a massive outage: effectively crippling an entire company which was worth US$2.6 billion when eBay purchased it back in 2005. It also leaves the 8 million very regular users (though most newspapers are running with the “220 …Read More
As previously mentioned elsewhere, my brother was here in China for about a two week span. I live in Dalian, so we chose to spend the bulk of the time here. I’m not particularly fond of Beijing, but seeing as how one of the only things my brother knows about China and/or it’s culture is …Read More
Oh, sure, you may THINK that 2008 begins in just five months or so, but for 1/5th of the world (give or take), it all starts one year from now – as today Beijing’s Olympic Clock hits the magic 365 days number. Yee haw! Many have said that these Olympics will be “China’s coming out …Read More
Last week, Louis Vuitton opened its Nanjing store. It opened with all of the pomp and ribbon-cutting and champagne and full-page newspaper ads announcing itself that one would expect from LV anywhere in the world. What I didn’t expect, though, was the literal mobs of shoppers that rushed the store the second the doors swung …Read More
Nary a week goes by that the Chinese media doesn’t provide us all with something to chuckle at and re-enforce our “oh those crazy Chinese” mentality. This week’s big news flub comes right from the top, Xinhua. The State-owned mouthpiece’s English-language Web site ran a serious story about a breakthrough in identifying what causes multiple …Read More
For all those that missed the hoopla of the 2007 edition of the China Blog Awards, your chance to jump on the bandwagon has passed my friend. The awards are officially over. Chinalyst hosted the awards, with open voting during the month of July on any blog signed up in the Chinalyst system. The army …Read More
I love comments. Love how they add a depth of interaction with a readership that you could not have in traditional media. I think it’s awesome. However, net nannies of the world have a strong case for the need of an Internet tidy-up if you look at your average cross-section of comments on various China …Read More
Anyone that reads this blog often enough knows that I’ve no love for censorship. I down-right loath it. Freedom of speech is the apex of [*hr*]. There is not a situation I can think of whereby I feel a person should have their ability to speak on any topic they desire taken away from them. …Read More
I looked at the calendar today and realized that the end of July was fast approaching, and bringing with it a close to the 2007 China Blog Awards. So, if you’ve not gone already and cast your vote for us (or anyone else), be sure to do so! Also, there’s still time to submit what …Read More
About 10 days ago it was reported that steamed buns in China’s capital were being made with cardboard and pork flavouring. It was then announced earlier this week that the ‘cardboard baozi‘ story was a hoax created by a ‘journalist’ to up his ratings. While the many who touted it being a fake from the …Read More
Wait, should there be two free’s in that title? In a follow-up to the post from the other day, it seems the gears are in motion to get Oiwan the public support she so rightly deserves. Along with the Free Oiwan Lam Facebook group I made mention of yesterday, a new blog has been created …Read More
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