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March 2005



Olive Branch

Thursday, 31 March 2005 12:10 P GMT+09
April could be the month that the icy relationship between China and Japan begins to thaw a little, at least that is the hope of Japanese diplomats who proffered an olive branch to China earlier this week.During a meeting held on Monday, between Chin

The Rabbit Hole: The Refraction of Matter

Wednesday, 30 March 2005 12:17 P GMT+09
Down The Rabbit Hole: The Refraction of Matter     While the refraction of light is a well known part of the discipline that is sci

Word Games: Half a truth is better than none for Beijing

Tuesday, 29 March 2005 7:30 P GMT+09
Though many areas of the Chinese media have undeniably become more open during the last decade, claims that China is making strong and immutable progress towards a free and impartial media were dealt a sharp blow this month, when Beijing’s censors

Legal Smokescreen: China finds new ways to commit journalistic genocide

Monday, 28 March 2005 11:45 A GMT+09
March sees the introduction of newly tightened regulations to govern the conduct of journalists and publishing officials, and to increase the sanctions that can be used against them. A measure that has been greeted by some as a stepping up of the war

Burning Books: The Road to Ruin

Saturday, 26 March 2005 4:13 P GMT+09
When a book combines the Cultural Revolution, bizarre sexual fetishes, and Chairman Mao, there are two things that are guaranteed: That is will become a best seller, and that is will be banned in China. It appears that ‘Serve the People’, a sexua

花見 - Hanami

Saturday, 26 March 2005 12:18 P GMT+09
China is the plum blossom, the most enduring of all the blossoms.Majestic, wise, and ancient.Japan is the Cherry Blossom, the most fragile and glorious of all the blossoms.Brief, yet Fiery and beautiful.櫻 (Sakura), meaning cherry blossoms, are seen

National Cherry Blossom Festival: America

Saturday, 26 March 2005 9:00 A GMT+09
93rd National Cherry Blossom Festival: America

Driftnet lawsuit may open dangerous doors in China

Friday, 25 March 2005 12:56 P GMT+09
Beating the son for the crimes of the father has become a habit for China, and for many other countries with unnaturally long collective memories, but this old adage has take on new twist in the battle for intellectual property right in China, becomi

Mad dogs and Chinamen…..

Thursday, 24 March 2005 2:27 P GMT+09
Normally, when the phrases “Foaming at the mouth” is used to refer to something in China, peoples’ thoughts turn to Beijing, and its frequent apoplectic press releases to denounce Washington, Taipei, and Tokyo. However, in a rare turn around, t

Service announcement: Correction

Thursday, 24 March 2005 11:32 A GMT+09
Angry Chinese Blogger wishes to issue the following correction and to apologise for any inconvenience caused.Dangerous games: Taipei calls on Hong Kong to take to the streetsThe following paragraph is incorrect.  

Dangerous games: Taipei calls on Hong Kong to take to the streets

Tuesday, 22 March 2005 11:59 P GMT+09
NoteThis article has been corrected. The original article has been preserved, please follow link for details.In a move that some see as being more likely to be provocative than productive, President Chen Shui Bian, the elected head of Chinese Taiwan

Do not adjust your sets: Beijing gets a dose of its own media medicine

Monday, 21 March 2005 11:50 A GMT+09
Mainland Chinese residents were taken by surprise earlier this month when their regularly scheduled television broadcasts were interrupted by something decidedly ‘unhealthy’, a colloquialism often used in China to refer to pornography, acts of gr

Jouranlist Case File: Tao Haidong

Sunday, 20 March 2005 8:31 P GMT+09
Name: Tao HaidongAgency: FreelanceDate Imprisoned: 9 July 2002 (detained), January 2003 (Sentenced)Charge: Incitement, SubversionSentence: 7 yearsTao is a pro democracy activist and essay writer who strongly advocated for political and legal reforms

Service Announcement: New Poll Added

Sunday, 20 March 2005 2:11 P GMT+09
Angry Chinese Blogger has added a new poll asking for opinions on the impact of continued intellectual property right infringements in China.Readers suggestions are also welcomed for alternative poll answers.

Filling headlines and Turing stomachs: China’s fur trade is put in the spotlight once again

Sunday, 20 March 2005 1:59 P GMT+09
hina’s poor animal rights record was graphically brought to the attention of Pasadena diners this week, as activists from PETA, or People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, converged on Madre's, a California restaurant owned by Jennifer Lopez, t

36 dead, 190,000 stranded as blizzards tear into southwest China

Friday, 18 March 2005 12:14 P GMT+09
This month, Yunnan province, a region of south China that is usually known for its humid summers and mild winters, has found itself engulf by snowstorms and blizzard conditions more commonly associated with China’s northern most provinces, and cert

DVDs with Chinese Characteristics: Coming Soon. The ‘CCP-DVD’

Thursday, 17 March 2005 9:04 P GMT+09
Though China is better known for its pilfering of foreign intellectual property, and its violation of international patents, than its ability to come up with ideas of its own, it cannot be entirely cast as a parasite leaching off of foreign patents,

Service Announcement: Comments Re-opened

Thursday, 17 March 2005 3:27 P GMT+09
Closed comments have now been reopened. No readers’ comments have been removed or edited. Some responses are available and have been provided where they readers made their original comments.Responses have been provided for readersLeoMikeSteveLoonyJ

Stepping back from the Brink: Pandas return to Fengxian

Monday, 14 March 2005 8:53 A GMT+09
Hopes of a continued resurgence in the population of China’s most evocative non mythological animal were given a boost earlier within the last few months when reports were made, to a provincial wildlife station, of sightings of dung believed to bel

How can China expect the foreigners to respect its heritage, if it doesn’t?: 2000 years of history used to pave a driveway

Sunday, 13 March 2005 9:39 A GMT+09
Constructed in the Qin dynasty, expanded and reinforced during the Ming dynasty, and awarded world heritage stratus by the United Nations in 1987, there is little that symbolizes China and Chinese heritage more than the Great Wall of China.Having str

The Rabbit Hole: Sex Education

Saturday, 12 March 2005 11:59 P GMT+09
Down The Rabbit Hole: Sex Education     With the possible exceptions of evolution and home economics, there are few subjects in

5000 years of misrepresented history?: East Asia tells China to 'put its house in order'

Friday, 11 March 2005 11:59 P GMT+09
March has not been a good month for the image of Chinese history. both Japan and Korea lhave aunched scalding attacks on the accuracy of China’s history books and museums, calling on the Chinese government to cease state sponsored distortions of th

China spells Double trouble for Apple

Friday, 11 March 2005 3:42 P GMT+09
For Apple, it appears that an ill wind is blowing from the east, as a pair of patent lawsuits with Chinese characteristic, both involving patent infringements, look set to interfere with its two of it flagship products in the near future.Case 1: Whos

Stealing by Numbers: China, a patent lawyer, and a royal pain in the neck

Friday, 11 March 2005 10:53 A GMT+09
If you are one of the countless music fan who are taking part in the phenomena that is the Apple Ipod, and you take a close look at your’ record collection in a box’, you won’t see the name Hitachi anywhere on or inside the device. Instead thro

Journalist Case File: Yang Tianshui

Tuesday, 8 March 2005 8:02 P GMT+09
Name: Yang Tianshui Agency: Freelance Date Imprisoned: (Detained) 24 December 2004 Charge: Incitement, Subversion Sentence: Not yet available Yang was arrested at his home in Hangzhou, a city in east China’s Zhejiang province, on 24 December 20