http://www.zonaeuropa.com/weblog.htm Global Media, Culture and Politics en-us Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:00:05 +0800 http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20080727_1.htm Should Li Yapeng have assaulted the reporter who tried to film his daughter? Should the Beijing police have assaulted the Hong Kong reporters trying to cover the Beijing Olympics ticket sales? Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:00:05 +0800 http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20080726_1.htm At the scene of the Olympics ticket sales, the Beijing police manhandled Hong Kong reporters and got kicked in the balls. Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:00:05 +0800 http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20080717_1.htm#Weng2 China News Weekly reporter Wang Weibo reflects on his experience in Wengan as well as the information management processes in place at this time. Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:05 +0800 http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20080701_1.htm#Weng A Southern Weekend article describes the demographics and grievances of the people who joined the demonstration march from the riverbank to the county government buildings. Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:00:05 +0800 http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20080708_1.htm A female boasted about the benefits that she enjoyed as the kept mistress of a senior government official, and the human flesh search engines flushed out the wrong female. Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:00:05 +0800 http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20080703_1.htm Next Media boss Jimmy Lai is interviewed by Newsweek (USA) and also gets a 12-page front cover story in EastWeek (Hong Kong). Wed, 03 Jul 2008 00:00:05 +0800 http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20080702_1.htm This is the traditional ESWN post that records the various statistics related to the 7/1 march in Hong Kong. Tue, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:05 +0800 http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20080701_1.htm A collection of information about the death of a 15-year-old female student and the ensuing mass riot at government buildings in Weng'an county, Guizhou province. Mon, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:05 +0800 http://www.zonaeuropa.com/culture/c20080628_1.htm Here are three poems by Henry David Thoreau that Eileen Chang once translated for an anthology of American poetry. These translations are not well-known. Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:00:05 +0800 http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20080624_1.htm The string of political events this year is turning the website Xiaonei.com for Chinese university students into a political hotbed. Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:00:05 +0800 http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20080621_1.htm A review of the various twists and turns in the chronicle of the teacher Fan Meizhong who left his students and ran away first when the earthquake struck. Sat, 21 Jun 2008 00:00:05 +0800 http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20080618_1.htm This is an Economic Observer interview of Sima Nan about his essay arguing against the Nanfang Daily group editorials/opinion essays on behalf of universal values such as human rights, democracy, freedom and so on. Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:00:15 +0800 http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20080615_1.htm Partial transcript from the now famous Phoenix TV program with teacher Fan Meizhong, who dashed out of the classroom when the earthquake hit and left his students behind. Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:00:15 +0800 http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20080608_1.htm This is an interview with the Mianzhu Party Secretary who knelt down to beg parents who lost their children in a collapsed school building to stop a petition march. Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:00:15 +0800 http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20080604_1.htm A collection of Internet posts about an incident involving two male students, a female student and a Cadillac. Whose side are you on? The lovesick drunken ex-lover boy, or the rich son of a corrupt senior government official with the kept mistress. Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:00:15 +0800 http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20080603_1.htm Fan Xiaohua is suspected of misappropriation of a disaster relief tent and aggravated personal assault in Mianyang city, but the Chinese human flesh search engines went after Communist Youth League secretary Fan Xiaohua in Mianzhu city instead. Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:00:15 +0800 http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20080602_1.htm Who was responsible for the 127 deaths when the Fuxin Number Two Elementary School classroom building collapsed? School officials, government officials, architects or building contractors? Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:00:15 +0800 http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20080601_2.htm A case of apparent looting of disaster relief materials on the highway was solved by Internet users, a policeman and a newspaper reporter. Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:00:15 +0800 http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20080601_1.htm Fang Zhouzi reviews the subject of earthquake prediction. Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:00:05 +0800