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Entries from Shanghaiist tagged with 'guardian'

August 12, 2008

From The Guardian: Spain's Olympic basketball teams have risked upsetting their Chinese hosts by posing for a pre-Games advert making slit-eyed gestures. The advert for a courier company, which is an official sponsor of the Spanish Basketball Federation, occupied a full page in the sports daily Marca, the country's best-selling newspaper. The advert features two large photographs, one of the men's basketball team, below, and one of the women's team. Both squads pose in full......

Continue Reading "Spain's Olympic Basketball Team: Racist? Or just stupid?"

April 5, 2008

Sina.com have officially entered the war of words over CNN's Tibet coverage with an online petition that is currently up to 1.14 million signatures. This latest development in the ongoing row over doctored and mis-titled photographs is breaking over on China Daily:The website's appeal read: "Violent crimes of beating, smashing, looting and arson broke out in Lhasa in early March, but Western media organizations such as CNN and BBC have churned out untrue and distorted......

Continue Reading "Tibet Update: Enter ... Sina.com"

April 2, 2008

Jonathan Watts, the China correspondent for The Guardian, has recently put in his year so far article about the internet here. It covers a lot of familiar ground and quotes Zonaeuropa and Danwei.org, among others, as sources. One of the most quoted facts in these kinds of articles is the world’s most read blog being “Lao Xu”. Lao Xu is the Sina.com blog of actress/writer/director Xu Jing Lei 徐静雷. So what’s going on at the......

Continue Reading "The Guardian's China web round-up"

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