“There are no real editors at Today, they are all a bunch of word processors. They send good reporters like Derrick Paulo and Ansley Ng to cover political happenings, then censor and rewrite everything to suit their political masters.”

“for most Chinese reporters, no matter on whose press conference they got a commercial envelope, it always equals to a Hongbao (Red Package in Mandarine), the most important source of their afterhours income.”

“Place ads in the paper, and also on the website. However, this is somewhat undermined by the fact that the website is ALSO recruiting. This means the China Daily print edition recruitment ad is buried deep underneath mangled layers of porn and Chinglish,

“Of course, a key obstacle in transforming China Daily is the continuing dominance of ideological correctness. As long as the Party holds the reins, CD, and other English-language Chinese media, will never garner much of a global audience”

“Will Microsoft ever exit the China market willingly? Not while they receive competitive advantages from CCP[?] interference in the marketplace. But they have learned the art of PR in the US and understand the need to shed a few crocodile tears to keep their critics at arms length.

“As of last count, Mr. Arroyo has filed 43 libel suits against journalists, quite a record for a single complainant”

“According to a research report, 90 percent of China’s billionaires are children of senior officials. There are about 2,900 senior officials’ children in China, with total wealth amounting to two trillion yuan.”

“…humiliate and discredit Kim Jung Il in the eyes of the North Korean elite by forcing him to give out home-baked fruitcake and hand-knitted scarves instead of Mercedes, Rolexes, and XO as Christmas gifts to his disgruntled followers.”