Tweeting Into the New Year
Ever tweeted at 00:00 01 Jan? We’re not even a hundred hours into the new year (2014) here in Beijing (a little less if you’re on the West Coast of the United States), and...
Category: China / Mainland China
China Railways’s Bewitched CAPTCHA
Here, the CAPTCHA appears still, but as of when this post was first published, moving CAPTCHAs could still be found. Whilst you may not need a PhD to buy a train ticket (even for...
The iPad’s Now Gone From Tianjin, Too
The iPad is now gone from many an authorized Apple retailer in Tianjin as well, after earlier reports that the iPad had disappeared elsewhere in China, including Shijiazhuang. Apple’s tablet, though, is still available...
Is Barack Obama A PRC Citizen After All?
The Chinese may have a PRC ID number already in store for President 2.0. This is a fairly scary bit of “the news” as of late: there’s this bit of “fake ID software” on...
Sina Head Editor: Censoring Tweets – What A Pain!
“Controlling content in Sina microblogs is a problem which is a very big headache.” There — we’ve tried our best at verbatim translation. On, of course, Chen Tong (陈彤), the head editor at Sina....
Forced Into World Cup Mania?
The year 2009 was the year the innocent Chinese populace were forced into all kinds of things — the year when the average soul in a nation of 1.3 billion were coerced into doing one...
Wifi Around China: Starbucks Capital Times Square
The Starbucks inside Capital Times Square is minimalist, but that doesn’t mean it’s not there. Just inside the back entrance of the Beijing Capital Times Square is this Starbucks, which apparently manages to place...
Wifi Around China: Costa Coffee Xizhimen
Ah, Xizhimen. It’s transit hell and heaven — two in one, at the same time. Where else can you link a railway station with a three-line Subway interchange? But then again, why’s everyone still...
PRC’s Secrecy Law Modification Raises Some Eyebrows
The modification of a 1988 law on state secrets, coming just about a year before the events that occurred a year later, made it an offence to release “state secrets”. Its modification in late...
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