Today's Links: Xinjiang and Beijing clocks, Web users and the government, and Bill Gates and TB all square off

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  • NBA, Tsingtao team for cheerleading show [Hollywood Reporter] "Seven months after inking a multiyear partnership, the NBA and China's Tsingtao Brewery have something to cheer about. The U.S. basketball league and Chinese beer giant are poised to launch a cheerleading competition show next month on China Central Television's sports channel. Winners will travel to the U.S. to train with an NBA dance squad."
  • Clocks square off in China's far west [Los Angeles Times] "In Xinjiang province, the Muslim Uighur minority makes a point of observing its own time, not that of local Han Chinese, who adhere to Beijing's imposition of a single time for all of China."
  • China Web users turn keen eye back on government [Reuters] "A pair of receipts from an upscale karaoke club sparked the latest Internet-led furor over government corruption earlier this month, ending the career of a mid-level bureaucrat from Liuyang, in southern Hunan province. Scanned and uploaded by a nameless surfer, the dockets listed 47,000 yuan (nearly $7,000) worth of dining, massage and other services, prompting Internet users to ask how a public servant in a local media watchdog could stretch his meager government salary so far. The Liuyang scandal followed a string of similar media storms in recent months, triggered by the Internet exposures of officials enjoying luxury overseas holidays in the name of "study" trips, or photographed wearing expensive-looking watches."
  • No one keen on the top jobs in pit city plagued by disaster [SCMP] "Shanxi province is having a tough time filling top posts in Linfen, as candidates turn down job offers over fears about a stream of deadly accidents and a complex local power struggle, state media reported. Linfen has been without a Communist Party secretary and a mayor for more than six months since a dam in Xiangfen collapsed, killing 276 people and injuring 35 others in early September, The Southern Metropolis News of Guangzhou reported."
  • China detains man compiling list of quake victims [Reuters] "Police in southwestern China have detained a writer who was trying to compile a list of children killed in schools that collapsed during a devastating earthquake last year, an activist group said. ... Tan Zuoren wrote a proposal this year, called '5.12 Student Archive', to ask web users and people who lost their children in the quake to help set up a detailed database of the victims."
  • Gates Gives $33 Million for Tuberculosis in China [PC World] "Bill Gates announced a $33 million grant from his charity foundation to help fight tuberculosis in China on Wednesday, deepening his organization's involvement in the country. New tests and treatments for TB will be offered in China under the joint program between the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Chinese government"
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By Elaine Chow in on April 1, 2009 7:30 PM Comments 3 Likes Likes

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