It’s time for a backup of your Gmail account(s) if you live in China.
Google has announced it’s contemplating leaving China and the ramifications might well be that in doing so their Gmail service will become unavailable as well. There’s no certainty but don’t be naive and think it could not happen. Stranger things […]
The Chinese firewall had an active day. Twitter blocked, Flickr blocked, Microsoft’s new search engine Bing.com blocked.
In general the average Chinese user won’t give a a hoot. Twitter….. Flickr….. and that pancake search engine.
It’s mostly the foreigners here that will have to find other ways to express themselves. Should be good for productivity, although […]
Bill Gates, Microsoft Chairman and co-founder, who officially retired has made it into the Baidu Logo. Click the logo and you will get to his profile (in Chinese)
He is the second American who makes it to the top of the page of China’s most popular search engine. US Presidential candidate Barack Obama was the […]
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Google and Kingsoft launched today a free Chinese-English-Chinese dictionary.
Now go and read the Chinese bbs yourself to really find out what’s going on in China.
If you install it on a non-Chinese operating system you probably see a lot of weird symbols (not Chinese but more machine language like), on the first page of the […]
Update
Mystery solved, it was a typo and it has been corrected, see comment by ESWN.
While getting updated on the latest in China I visited the always very informative EastSouthWestNorth blog to read the translated essay by Huangfu Ping.
Suffering slightly from professional deformation I didn’t start reading the text of the article right away but looked […]
No matter how much I like Starbucks for their 12 rmb coffee of the day, how many people do they expect to type in this URL.
Source: ad in Cityweekend (Shanghai expat mag)
One of my favorite advertising methods in Shanghai is the advertising boat that pollutes my view when I have a coffee in Starbucks on the Lujiazui side.
As there seems to lack of number of advertisers a whole Haibao cartoon is shown these days. Haibao as you may have heard is the mascot of the […]
I got a comment in an old post, the one about the Internet Police, about being ripped off by a Chinese online shop offering electronic goods for great prices.
I don’t know the exact details but I did a quick search to see what info is available. It seems the commenter isn’t the only […]
Autumn is coming and you need some entertainment. You have seen all the dvd’s they sell on the corner, including the ones that halfway change into being dubbed in Russian. The local channels aren’t really an option unless you want to see for the umpteenth time another historical drama and the very national CCTV […]
Unsettling, and insistently gripping story of 3 generations of Chinese women
