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- Magazine's business chiefs resign [SCMP] "Top business executives at Caijing magazine, the mainland's most influential business publication, have resigned en masse, heightening speculation its ownership may change hands soon or that its managing editor and founder, Hu Shuli, may leave and start her own publication... Caijing general manager Daphne Wu Chuanhui and eight of her nine business directors have resigned, according to reporters briefed about the resignations."
- Can the Future of Western Newspapers be Saved by China? [Sino Tech Blog] "When looking at the Western and Chinese online newspaper landscape, many obvious differences are evident. There has been much written recently about the demise of the newspapers in the West as their circulation plummets and their online revenue models struggle to counter these losses in revenues. But what about the situation in China? Is the outlook as bleak? Is their similar trends and examples as there are in the US?… This is what I wanted to explore and understand more."
- Upgrade rather than cancellation for CCTV's concert series [Danwei] "The cancellation of CCTV's popular touring concert series, The Same Song (同一首歌), reported by the mainland media late last week and covered in this post, now seems to be little more than a rumor. The Beijing Times spoke to CCTV management and published a brief article on Saturday: 'Rumors have been flying saying that CCTV's flagship program The Same Song would be canceled after the National Day holiday. Yesterday, CCTV arts and entertainment center director Zhang Xiaohai said in an interview that no such cancellation would occur.'"
- China's "super-expensive-cigarette director" jailed 11 years for bribes [Xinhua] "A court in east China's Jiangsu Province Saturday sentenced a government official, dubbed "super-expensive-cigarette director", to 11 years in prison for accepting bribes. Zhou Jiugeng, former director of the real estate management bureau in Jiangning District, the provincial capital of Nanjing, was convicted of accepting 1.07 million yuan and 110,000 Hong Kong dollars in bribes from contractors, subordinate businesses and officials."
- China's reverse migration [BBC] "Li Ya Fang does not look or sound much like a migrant worker. For a start she has a college degree - she is wearing her university T-shirt when we meet. But technically she is a migrant working many hundreds of kilometres from home - three days' train ride from Shanghai, where she went to school. She is working as a teacher near Pu'er, in Yunnan province in the south-west of China. The Communist Youth League sent her here."
- Winemaker Has Right Vintage for China Success [WSJ] "China has been fermenting grains and fruits into "wine" since ancient times. But in the past 15 years, hundreds of vineyards producing Western varietal-grape wines have sprung up. Most are at an embryonic stage by European standards, though that doesn't mean they don't intend one day to rank among the world's great wineries. Grace Vineyard, in northern China's Shanxi province, has taken only a decade to start producing quality wines recognized at home and abroad. The winery was established in 1997 by Chinese-Indonesian businessman Chan Chun Keung, who invested 60 million yuan ($8.8 million) in the 200-hectare property, complete with a replica French chateau on site."
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