Here is a the front page of today’s edition of 南国今报, South China Modern Times, Liuzhou’s most popular newspaper. As you can see, there’s one large headline, a few minor headlines, then loads of advertising. Here is the front page of today’s edition of 广西日报, Guangxi Daily, the autonomous region’s most boring paper. As you [...]
Since yesterday evening, most (but not all) non-Chinese sites, including this one, have been unavailable here in Liuzhou and in many other parts of China, other than by using Great Firewall of China vaulting systems such as VPNs. Normally available sites such as the BBC, Hotmail, etc are now unavilable. Reports have been received from [...]
Headlines indicating that a new species of human has been found in Guangxi came as no surprise to me. In fact, I’m fairly certain I have met some of them. There are a lot of odd people around. Most of them teaching English! It turns out that examination of a number of fossilised skulls and [...]
My article on the river contamination and panic buying story has been published by Beijing based web magazine Danwei. You can read it here.
China’s State Council has drafted new laws for foreigners in China. These laws have been submitted to the National People’s Congress (NPC) Standing Committee, the top legislature of the country, for its first reading. In practice, this means the laws will be introduced; the NPC never votes against anything proposed. The laws are intended to [...]
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