CHINA - Behind The Reporting On The Case of Chen Liangyu
“Even though a ban might be appearing, the reporters continued to collect information and check out the evidence. This went relatively smoothly. After all, we are a specialized financial newspaper and we are experienced in investigating wealthy tycoons.”
CHINA - Blogger Wang Xiaofeng sticks it to the man
“Wang is not afraid to poke fun at sacred cows or to curse China’s excitable young Internet users. His acerbic style and sense of humor have made him your correspondent’s favorite Chinese blogger. In person, he does not disappoint.”
CHINA - Playing straight sometimes misses bottom line
” “I’m telln’ you. You know what you need to do? Make it 10 times that. But when you come to sell me an ad, give me 50 percent off first of all. Then, give me a massive kickback, and I’m gonna book ads like crazy.” He’s like “That’s the way it works, works, don’t you know?”
CHINA - Beer in Shanghai, part 2: challenge
” I defy the most sophisticated beer taster to tell any of these beers apart from any others in a blind taste test. It would be like picking up a slice of Wonder Bread and guessing whether it came from Orlando or Dubuque.”
THAILAND - The 10 Commandments of Thai love
“The wonderfully caring Ministry of Culture has just launched ‘10 Commandments of Love’ in an attempt to prevent teenagers getting too carried away on Valentine’s Day and getting up to hanky-panky in short-time hotels.”
THAILAND - Valentines curfew to stop teen sex
“A third of Thai teenage girls think Valentine’s Day is an excellent time to lose their virginity, and police in Bangkok are out to stop them. Police in the capital, famous around the world for its fleshpots, will enforce a 10 pm curfew on February 14.”
NORTH KOREA - Could hawkishness help North Korea?
“If the deal yesterday is implemented, then the world will be better off than after 1994, because the Yongbyon reactor and all other facilities will be dismantled, not just frozen. If it isn’t, then that just proves the neocons right - that Kim wasn’t to be trusted.”
CHINA - And the Oscar goes to…
“when Awards season comes around, all the rules go flying out the window. It starts when the guy selling pirated discs at the entrance to the subway out of an open suitcase on the sidewalk has a copy of every film that’s been nominated for a Golden Globe. And from then on, I’m able to buy a clear copy of every movie nominated for an award no matter how recently it’s been introduced to theaters. All one has to be able to do is accept the notices scrolling across the screen that say “Property of Rupert Murdoch” or some such thing.”
INDIA - Political, religious hardliner groups protest Valentine’s Day
“n Rajasthan capital Jaipur, Bharatiya Kamgar and Students’ Federation of India, organisations affiliated to the Shiv Sena and CPI-M respectively, said they would “blacken the faces” of those making public displays of affection.”
The Colbert Report’s Chinese New Year special report is indeed some of the best television reporting we have seen on China in some time.:
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