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Wandering China: Taiwan Day 1
In this age of media tsunamis and the resultant information famines, nothing beats the primacy of first-hand experience to be informed of the ways of the world. Taiwan is the next stop in my travels...
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Wen Says China Should Allow People to Criticize Government [Bloomberg]
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao reaffirms his pledge that the Chinese people should be allowed to criticize their leaders during the State Council meet on Tuesday. His premise seems pretty clear – he...
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Chinese cities dim lights in environmental initiative [Xinhua]
Symbolism: 124 Chinese cities join in a global concert of nations in the Earth Hour ‘symphony’ to raise climate change awareness. Interesting enough, it’s interesting how Taiwan is ‘kind of’ claimed in...
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Chrysanthemum Flower Bed 菊花台by the People’s Armed Police men’s choir...
Here’s sharing a moving symphonic track if you have six minutes to spare! There might be some dissonance at first with the olive green uniforms. The People’s Armed Police is the paramilitary arm...
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The Inconvenient Truth Behind the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands [New York Times]
From the New York Times: putting the knee jerk to rest? The right to know is the bedrock of every democracy. The Japanese public deserves to know the other side of the story. It is the politicians who...
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Foxconn Plant Closed After Riot, Company Says [New York Times]
Taiyuan, Shaanxi province: On the back of a string of suicides beginning in 2010 that gave the Taiwanese-owned Foxconn (one of the largest employers of Chinese with more than 1.1 million of them on...
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Four-party academic forum on Diaoyutais opens in Taichung [Focus Taiwan]
Running since 2009 and jointly organised by the National Chung Hsing University and Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, this is one of Taiwan’s approaches to the East China Sea dispute – academic...
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Sophia Rd cafe cashes in on island dispute #Singapore #Diaoyu #Senkaku [AsiaOne]
AsiaOne: Cafe in Singapore rides the wave of the East Asian island dispute by reaching out through a true-blue Singaporean, if not their primary past-time – food. Singapore is multicultural by legacy,...
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Agencies to probe cafe over name [Straits Times] #China #Singapore #Diaoyu...
Wandering China covered this news story a little over a month ago – see Sophia Rd cafe cashes in on island dispute [AsiaOne]. Now it seems, three agencies in Singapore – the Advertising Standards...
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Taiwan regulators, feet to the fire, talk tough on China-linked media deals...
As two Chinas draw closer, the jostle for voice will be dramatic one. Though they share an eye on the economic imperative, cross-straits media ownership ideals do not match. - – - Taiwan regulators,...
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New policies to boost relations [China Daily] #RisingChina #CrossStraitsTies
Toward a Greater China stance. - – - New policies to boost relations By AN BAIJIE Source – China Daily, published June 17, 2013 The Chinese mainland will continue its “correct policies” to further...
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Wang Leehom | Full Address [Oxford Union/Youtube] #RisingChina #Music...
Bridging a great divide : American-born Chinese all-round entertainer Wang Leehom 王力宏 at the Oxford Union on Chinese soft power deficit in pop culture, identity and the East/West cross-pollinaton that...
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Agencies to probe cafe over name [Straits Times] #China #Singapore #Diaoyu...
Wandering China covered this news story a little over a month ago – see Sophia Rd cafe cashes in on island dispute [AsiaOne]. Now it seems, three agencies in Singapore – the Advertising Standards...
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