In the south, this year’s winter is causing electric power supply problems and general discomfort (because, for reasons odd and infuriating, there is no central heating). In the north, it’s massacring animals. For the love of animals! According to Calum MacLeod of USA Today, about 180,000 cattle have died in the north due to the extreme weather.... Read more »
A remarkable message was published recently on Sina Weibo, supposedly written by a company manager who goes by @geniune_Yu_Yang — an account that has since been deleted. Prompted by perceived public misunderstanding of Sina Weibo’s handling of the Southern Weekly story, the writer posted a screenshot of text that illustrated the how and why of its... Read more »
Alright, before you panic: according to CRI, at least one of the dead probably didn’t die due to the flu alone, as she was a 65-year-old cancer patient. The other victim was a 22-year-old migrant worker, which is a little more worrisome, but she wasn’t exactly a model of health. There’s no need to go... Read more »
Fresh off his meth high and shooting spree (note: not really), Nicholas Kristof is really, really optimistic about China. Considering the type of China stories we usually encounter, let’s call this a breath of fresh air.
I’m picturing Nicholas Kristof, the New York Times’s Pulitzer-winning columnist, clutching an AK-47 a la Jason Russell while on the greatest meth high this side of Breaking Bad. Yes, that is what I’m picturing. Kristof:
The page editor at Southern Weekly, a Guangdong daily newspaper, left work two days ago thinking his section was set. The next day, he and everyone else discovered a pro-government introductory message in their paper, headlined “Pursuing dreams,” that no one had previously seen, according to SCMP.
