Shanghaiist (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
As reported over the last week , China's Ministry of Commerce and ad giant DDB have released their previously delayed public relations campaign touting products made in China. The ad, which you can watch here , shows a bunch of consumer goods with the tag line "Made in China with [insert expertise from the rest of the world here]." Paraphrased. As Malcolm Moore of the Telegraph points out,...
Danwei (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Southern Weekly November 19, 2009 The Southern Weekly , one of China's more aggressively investigative newspapers, were the only print media outlet to get an interview with Obama. Central government controlled Xinhua and CCTV did not get one-on-one interviews with the American president. The interview was published in this week's issue which came out today. You can read a translation into English...
Aftermath News (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
A Chinese official bizarrely claimed that Barack Obama should understand China’s opposition to Tibetan independence because he is a black president who understands Abraham Lincoln’s role in emancipating African Americans. Obama should understand Chinese rule in Tibet ‘because he is black’, official says Telegraph | Nov 12, 2009 By Malcolm Moore in Shanghai China insists that...
Shanghaiist (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
A recent prostitution bust in Henan has gotten netizens into a fury... against the police, who were videotaped interrogating a naked woman in an incredibly rough fashion. [ CNNGo ] We can't get enough of stories about the Chongqing corruption trials, so we're glad we get to hear two of our favorite China journalists, Paul French and Malcolm Moore, discuss "China's Chicago." [ Ethical Corp...
Asian Gazette (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Picture: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (standing) speaks during the business summit of China, the Republic of Korea (ROK) and Japan, in Beijing, capital of China, Oct. 10, 2009. On the picture, Premier WEN (M), ROK President LEE Myung-bak (L) Japanese Prime Minister Yukio HATOYAMA (R) How the East Asia Community will start and why this is epoch making Wen Jiabao, the Chinese prime minister, and his Japanese...
Shanghaiist (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
According to this website, Shanghai's planning on building a shanzhai version of the U.S. Pentagon before the World Expo. Like most weirdly shaped complexes in China, It'll be a shopping mall. [ 非常日報 ] People's Daily looks at the "Bund Origin" program and reflects on the Huangpu area's last 60 years. [ People's Daily Online ] Adam Minter interviews a migrant worker...
Big Cat News (Free subscription) | 09/05/2009
Bengal tigers face extinction after China rejects trade curbs India's tiny population of wild tigers could be pushed to extinction after China rejected a call to curb the trade of tiger products. By Malcolm Moore in Shanghai Published: 6:16PM BST 03 Sep 2009 The biggest threat to the 1,300 Bengal tigers left in the wild is a rampant demand from China for tiger skins, penises, teeth, whiskers and bones....
virtualreview: china|blogs (Free subscription) | 09/04/2009
The Telegraph's Malcolm Moore does a mini Twitter-survey about how Shanghai should be improved, and writes about the 45 billion dollar city beautification plan for the 2010 Expo, as well as its mascot Haibao: The goal is to wow visitors to the 2010...
Danwei (Free subscription) | 09/04/2009
The Telegraph's Malcolm Moore does a mini Twitter-survey about how Shanghai should be improved, and writes about the 45 billion dollar city beautification plan for the 2010 Expo, as well as its mascot Haibao: The goal is to wow visitors to the 2010 World Expo, a biennial boondoggle which the rest of the world tends to ignore, but which Shanghai is treating like it is the equivalent of Beijing’s...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 08/29/2009
She was on her first Telegraph assignment and only 26 when she spotted German tanks invading Poland. Now 97 Claire Hollingworth talks to Malcolm Moore.
US News & World Report (Free subscription) | 08/28/2009
David Wei, chief executive of Alibaba, tells Malcolm Moore how the ‘online shop’ that links Chinese businesses with each other and the West has been able to flourish in a downturn. In some ways, David Wei is exactly the type of boss you would expect to find [...]
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 08/27/2009
Li Fengjiang of Orient Homes is China's Mr DIY and he's riding high after China's economic miracle triggered a spectacular property boom. Malcolm Moore meets the man who wants to help fit out every Chinese home.
Aftermath News (Free subscription) | 08/26/2009
Beijing vows rain will not fall on its parade Beijing has declared its weather-fighting forces will ensure no rain falls on October’s National Day parade, which will mark the 60th year of Communist Party rule. Telegraph | Aug 25, 2009 By Malcolm Moore Zhang Qiang, the deputy head of the city’s “Weather Modification” office, told state media that [...]
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 08/25/2009
Suning China's largest electrical retailer is thriving. Malcolm Moore meets its founder Zhang Jindong who arrived by train and left by Bentley.
Danwei (Free subscription) | 08/21/2009
At the Telegraph blog, Malcolm Moore lists the activists, bloggers, lawyers, authors etc that have been arrested in recent times: Yesterday, it emerged that yet another leading intellectual, Mo Zhixu, has been put under house arrest. Mo is an author and the recently elected head of China’s PEN centre, a charity that defends the right to free speech. He is also one of the founders of Bullog.cn,...
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