Posts Tagged ‘china’

Chinese social media debate rages over US ambassador photo

Wednesday, August 24th, 2011

An exclusive story that broke and was spread by social media last week has sparked debate. A seemingly benign photo of the US ambassador to China buying coffee whilst carrying a rucksack has attracted widespread praise of Ambassador Gary Locke, in contrast to the lavish displays often seen by Chinese public servants. Chen Weihua writing [...]

China’s Online Gold Miners

Thursday, June 2nd, 2011

It has come to my attention that some enterprising (see: exploitative) prison staff in China have departed from the normal modes of punishment and are now forcing prisoners in labour-camps to generate currency in World of Warcraft…