Describing it as a "popular Chinese daily newspaper," Xinhua has announced that the Global Times is now available in the US, in both English and Chinese. Take that, China Daily! The Global Times said the U.S. edition would provide readers with sharp reporting and perceptive analysis. It seeks to cover world events from a Chinese perspective, and introduce a dynamic, complex and changing China to the world i ...

In March, the e-commerce site Living Social found that Chinese tourists were the second-worst in the world, behind only Americans. While these surveys are usually hopelessly flawed -- does any country produce good tourists? -- China Daily ran a cover story yesterday on this subject, specifically how various organizations are trying to "instill better behavior among Chinese tourists." It's a fine Sunday read ...

We haven't talked about China Daily in a while. The November 16-22 issue of its European Weekly marked the 100th issue of the periodical, and it wanted to publicize this milestone via a small graphic on the front page. This is acceptable, of course, and not just relative to China Daily's previously egregious front-page decisions. But as Sam Geall, a China lecturer at the University of Oxford and executive d ...

Oh lord fucksticks. Could the Internet be totally free and should it be? The recent turmoil in the Arab world caused by a contentious video denigrating Prophet Muhammad shows the United States, which is busy promoting global Internet freedom, has paid a huge price with the lives of its diplomats. That's the first paragraph from this China Daily column today by Andre Vltchek, identified as an "American novel ...

Journalists are fed a lot of crap by the world. Specifically by public relations flacks and sources, but really, the world at large, because we're surrounded by crap, by fetid logs of horse and other rancid mammalian shit dripping with stupidity and awfulness. It takes a decent journalist to filter that shit and present it in a way that is digestible to a halfway intelligent and educated human being. It mea ...

No one would confuse China Daily for a real newspaper -- the kind that doesn't write "A Friend's Departure" on its front page when North Korea's leader dies -- but the company undoubtedly has real journalists on staff, veteran reporters who quietly toil within China's noxious media environment to produce respectable work, and it's those journalists I currently feel for. In yesterday's edition of China Daily ...

Image via here. In a story about ejaculation -- featuring a heavy dose of it as the centerpiece, anyway -- China Daily chose to go with the non-descriptive headline "Molesting suspect held by police," not sure why. (I know why.) The story: The woman passenger, who was wearing denim shorts, said she suddenly felt something hot falling on her leg when the crowded subway was approaching the People's Square Sta ...

[caption id="attachment_3169" align="alignnone" width="480" caption=""If you call me, you're gon' have a bad time.""][/caption] Thanks, China Daily. Thanks for embedding a reporter deep inside the septic tank that is the Sanlitun Police Bureau and telling us it's a lustrous fishbowl with that most exotic of exotic creatures, the officer who cares. This piece, in which reporter Cao Yin is a ...

Via China Daily (H/T Tom Lasseter) Once again, the full quote: Cut off the foreign snake heads....foreign spies seek out Chinese girls to mask their espionage... that foreign bitch. ...

Let's play a guessing game. What kind of website would host a series of pictures such as the above? Cracked.com? (Too classy, probably.) Bro Bible? Frat House Sports? Slingshot? Surely one of those sites with features like "The 50 Bustiest Girls on Facebook" and pop-up video ads. One of those sites in which a new tab opens with every click, leading you on a Möbius strip where dozens of pretty faces beg for ...

By TAR Nation Ed’s note: You might remember TAR as the guy around these parts who likes French people. He’ll be swinging by every weekend to fill you in on the week in Chinese media. The Top 4 Bullshit Editorials This Week | March 24-31 4. Heritage threatened as tomb-sweeping goes online Global Times | March 29 Tomb Sweeping Day is a yadayada bollockybollock from the reign of emperor Bull Wangle during the ...

Via CCTV special about Marbury I'm sure we all remember the post-game fracas in Taiyuan, Shanxi after Sunday's game, so we'll jump straight to Stephon Marbury in his own words in his weekly China Daily column: I couldn't believe this. Yes, I had experienced opposing fans throwing stuff at us before while on their home basketball court. But, I never thought this would happen during a CBA semifinal game. I wo ...

[caption id="attachment_1309" align="alignnone" width="529" caption=""All together now: Cheeeese!""][/caption] This is so rich. ...

[caption id="attachment_1245" align="alignnone" width="420" caption=""Merciful God, kill me now.""][/caption] More Faces of Near-Death -- all via China Daily -- after the jump. ...

Perchance, might I ask, how does he lead? By being dead? By making everyone feel inferior at the feet of his boundless magnanimity? With puppy-like, blind devotion? By making evangelists of us all and self-subjugating to a symbol and a spirit, when in fact that symbol and spirit is a myth written by people as real, flawed, proud, sinful and duplicitous as the rest of the human lot? I think it's safe to say ...

More than an hour after we published the latest edition of Yishus, in which Lola B wrote, "Chinese students go to art school to make money," but the "the main path, if not the only path, into a top art school is through the art gaokao (college entrance exam) that judges technical skill alone," China Daily published a cover story on essentially the same subject, except its approach -- as the headline will su ...