Posts tagged ‘natural disasters’

Jul 28

Sinica Week of Floods

This is the Sinica Week, a summary of the most important China stories from the last seven days. Sinica is a weekly podcast about current affairs in China, hosted by Kaiser Kuo and Danwei’s Jeremy Goldkorn.

On each week’s Sinica podcast, guests discuss and choose the top stories about China published in English over the past week. Read more

Jul 23

The Beijing deluge of 2012

Xinhua reported on Monday morning that the death toll after torrential rains pounded Beijing on Saturday had climbed to 37.

The report said that “Among the victims, 25 were drowned, six were killed in house collapses, one by lightening strike and five were electrocuted.” Read more

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  Model Workers 2012, our annual list of the best sites about China on the Internet

• China News from the Financial Times

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  Sinica is a weekly podcast  about current affairs in China, hosted by Kaiser Kuo and Jeremy Goldkorn with a variety of guests drawn from Beijing's resident and transient community of journalists, China scholars and industry experts.

• Danwei Classic Posts

  • Lisa Brackmann's Rock Paper Tiger excerpt and Q&A (2010.08): Lisa Brackmann has worked as a motion picture executive and an issues researcher in a presidential campaign. She has lived and traveled extensively in China. A southern California native, Brackmann in Venice, California, and spends a lot of time in Beijing, China. Rock Paper Tiger is her first novel.
  • Earth-shattering news and a faked interview (2010.01): Chengdu Business News and Global Times pair the devastation of the Google pullout with the Haiti earthquake.
  • A positive look at the Nationalist Party (2005.06): A book applauds KMT contributions to the anti-Japanese war effort.

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