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Remembering the 5/12 Earthquake Victims

By on Tuesday, May 12th, 2009 | Comments Off

It has been a long time since I last posted, for which I apologize. I won’t insult your intelligence by offering some excuses, but I will try to get back on a more regular schedule. I thank you for your understanding. If you would like to follow an unadulterated distilled real-time version of my thoughts, [...]

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China’s Telecom Shakeup And What It Means

By on Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 | 5 Comments

Several days ago, a different kind of earthquake happened in China in the telecoms field. Unlike the Sichuan earthquake which took so many lives and caused so much damage, this shakeup was not unexpected. It’s ramifications will be large, if not huge, and it’s worth going into some depth to get a deeper understanding of [...]

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Tianya BBS Provides Platform Connecting Sichuan Earthquake Victims, Volunteer Suppliers

By on Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 | 1 Comment

The Tianya BBS, as I have mentioned earlier, is one of the leading BBSes in China. It has now launched a special BBS connecting victims in the earthquake affected areas, with those individuals and companies wanting to voluntarily provide goods and services to help them. (h/t to to the Google China blog for mentioning this). [...]

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Google China’s Search Log Displays Moment of Mourning

By on Friday, May 23rd, 2008 | 15 Comments

Google China’s blog (in Chinese) mentions a Google search query log which dramatically shows the moment of silence and mourning on 2:28PM on May 19 for the victims of the May 12 earthquake in Sichuan. Apparently, even Google search queries fell off dramatically during that three-minute moment of silence where Chinese stopped everything they were [...]

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Let’s See How Many Ways We Can Get This Wrong

By on Monday, May 19th, 2008 | 46 Comments

Following the Sichuan Wenchuan earthquake, it has been very interesting to watch how the Chinese government and people have reacted, and how many western observers have reacted. For the first time in Chinese history, the Chinese government has ordered that Chinese flags have to be lowered to half-staff, for three days from May 19-21. What [...]

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How Chinese Websites Are Helping Donations For Sichuan Earthquake Victims

By on Friday, May 16th, 2008 | 6 Comments

There has been a strong outpouring of support in China for the victims of the Sichuan earthquake, and I thought it would help just to give those outside China and/or do not read Chinese a picture of what is going on in the online world in China. Tianya is one of the larger BBS sites [...]

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China’s Biggest Challenge for Developing the West

By on Sunday, March 30th, 2008 | 7 Comments

The Chinese government has done much to encourage the development of China’s west, particularly Sichuan province, which is the home to some 100 million people, making it larger in population than any single western European country, including Britain, France and even Germany. From a business and consumers’ point of view, the region holds tremendous promise. [...]

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