Sexy Beijing: Weddings Gone Wild – Danwei TV
From Danwei TV: In this episode of Danwei TV series Sexy Beijing, Su Fei puts on her bikini and heads to Qingdao for a holiday. But the beach is full of nuptial surprises. [Click to see the video] ©...
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After Car Killing, Qingdao Media Muffled – Reporters Home
From Reporters Home section on Xici.net, translated by CDT: A car killing spree claimed the lives of a newly-wed couple and injured another in Qingdao on the night of Nov. 26. But when local netizens...
View ArticleChina Sacks Qingdao City Communist Party Chief – Reuters
From Reuters via Guardian Unlimited: The Chinese government has sacked a senior Communist Party boss from the booming northern coastal province of Shandong for “serious discipline violation”, the...
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Car Model Craze in China – Li Qian
From China Daily: At auto shows in China, it’s not the sky-high priced luxury cars that attract the visitors, but the models standing by the vehicles. …Men are attracted to beautiful women, but what...
View ArticleVideo: Eviction on National Day Holiday? – Radio Free Asia
From RFA Unplugged blog: This rather shaky video was taken on Danxian Road, and appears to show the authorities removing banners attached to the roof of the apartment building. More than 200 residents...
View ArticleChina Says Senior Communist Gets Life Sentence For Graft
From AFP: The former number two of the Communist Party in one of China’s most populous provinces has been sentenced to life in jail for massive graft, state media reported Wednesday. Du Shicheng,...
View ArticleAlgae Bloom Turns Olympic Sailing Waters Green in China
From AFP: China’s pledge of a “Green Olympics” has taken on a worrying meaning at the sailing-venue city of Qingdao, where an algae bloom has coated the coastline, according to witnesses and Chinese...
View ArticleChina Beach
Susan Spano reports in the Baltimore Sun, from Qingdao: I had been trying to learn Mandarin at Beijing Language and Culture University and still had about 3,500 Chinese characters to memorize with two...
View ArticleVideo: Chinese Rock N Roll!
Here is a documentary about the rock scene in China, which interviews with and footage of several bands, including Tookoo, and foreigners working in the industry: Part One: Part Two: Found via Andy...
View ArticleChina Unveils World’s Longest Sea Bridge
The Daily Mail reports on the new longest sea bridge in the world in Qingdao. The bridge straddles the Jiaozhou Bay and is 26.4 miles long: With an overall length of 42.58km, the route between Qingdao...
View ArticleChina Opens World’s Longest Bridge: Would You Cross If You Came To It?
A bridge that links the port city of Qingdao with an offshore island Huangdao opened today in Shandong province. The Jiaozhou bridge, which spans 26.3 miles, cost reportedly $2.3 billion and is the...
View ArticleSensitive Words: Detainees, Activists and Fugitives
As of April 7, the following search terms are blocked on Weibo (not including the “search for user” function): Hot Keywords: Xiāo Yǒng [肖勇]，Ōu Róngguì 欧荣贵，Yáng Chóng [杨崇]，Liú Shānjuān [刘珊娟]，Huáng...
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Diaoyu Dispute Sparks Anti-Japanese Protests
Anti-Japan protests swept across China on Sunday, after Japanese activists landed on the Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea and unfurled Japanese flags just days after Japan detained a group of...
View ArticleCensorship Vault: Beijing Internet Instructions Series (21)
In partnership with the China Copyright and Media blog, CDT is adding the “Beijing Internet Instructions” series to the Censorship Vault. These directives were originally published on Canyu.org...
View ArticleAlgal Bloom Turns Yellow Sea Green
The New York Times reports on this year’s summer algal bloom in the Yellow Sea, and the Qingdao tourists who seem to be enjoying the colorful shoreline: In what has become an annual summer scourge, the...
View ArticleWanda Founder Aims to Create Chinese Hollywood
Chinese property and entertainment conglomerate Dalian Wanda Group has announced plans for an $8.3 billion, 3.7 million square meter mega entertainment center in Qingdao. At a launch ceremony on...
View ArticleCensorship Vault: Car Explodes in Qingdao
Censorship Vault features previously untranslated censorship instructions from the archives of the CDT series Directives from the Ministry of Truth (真理部指令). Qingdao Municipal Party Committee Propaganda...
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Censorship Vault: Seaside Villa
The following propaganda directive was first published by Reporters Without Borders. Qingdao Internet Information Management Office: Delete the post “Daughter of former deputy general secretary Lu...
View ArticleAt Least 35 Killed in Pipeline Rupture in Qingdao (Updated)
[See updates below] An explosion outside a petrochemical plant on the outskirts of Qingdao has killed three people and injured 48. From the South China Morning Post: Three people have been confirmed...
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Minitrue: Qingdao Oil Pipeline Explosion
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. Central Propaganda Department: All media must strictly control the proper...
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