What we’ve been reading recently:
FT.com / Asia-Pacific / China – Beijing outlines Olympic protest rules – The Olympic guide to protesting – you can’t just turn up with your placard | china olympics protest
Beijing’s Anti-Smog Efforts Failing, Independent Readings Suggest | Wired Science from Wired.com – More confirmation that Beijing’s promise of clean air for the Olympics isn’t working out | beijing olympics pollution wired
Ben’s Blog…..小本的博客 » The Foreigner Card, Don’t Leave Your Home Country Without It – Using foreigners as loss leaders… an interesting business model (h/t Danwei) | foreigners fuzhou beer
New York Times exposes their own ‘anonymous’ source – How not to quote anonymous sources | nyt journalism beijing uighur
Nightly News video : Reporters struggle to scale China’s ‘Great Firewall’ – Danwei.org’s Jeremy Goldkorn on whether journalists are just whining about internet restrictions (answer: yes). H/T to internet gfw olympics danwei.org nbc
The Beijing she knew is gone; in its place, the Beijing she loves – Los Angeles Times – LA Times staff writer Ching-Ching Ni reflects on the new Beijing and the new China as she prepares to leave the country once again | Beijing Chairman Mao
Olympic shames for mascot makers | The Sun |News – Not a bad piece of journalism by any means, but indicative of the treatment China can expect while under the wider and more intense media spotlight that accompanies the Olympic Games | china olympics mascots journalism labor
Beijing lifts loan quotas to boost slowing growth – SMCP.com | china business economy PBOC banks lending
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