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Chinese Pirates in Spanish Waters
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Loading ...Spanish Police Crack Down on CD/DVD Piracy Operation Involving Chinese Labor
Spanish police have disrupted an organized criminal syndicate based in Madrid that was producing counterfeit CDs and DVDs on an industrial scale. The group operated burners that could produce 150,000 CDs and DVDs each day, worth an estimated €600,000 daily (US$ 920,577) or €219 million [...]
Chinese Corruption and School Construction — No Longer A Suitable Media Topic
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Here is Caijing magazine’s attempt to explain in English the causes of the collapse of school buildings during the Sichuan earthquake. Yes, construction standards existed, goes the article, but weren’t implemented. That English language translation — intended to be the magazine’s face to the world — appears to be a compilation of several [...]
Direct Flights from Taiwan to Mainland China
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...In the mid-1980s, Taiwanese businessmen, at least those of a cautious nature, were too frightened to participate in the triangle trade （三角貿易）. That business moved product under the radar from Taiwan into China, when direct trade was prohibited with major consequences for Taiwanese (imprisonment and fines) and Chinese (who knows? execution, probably).
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Chengdu Investment News: July 17
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...1. US Secretary of State Rice visited Dujiangyan
In response to the invitation of Chinese foreign minister Yang Jiechi, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice leading a delegation of over 60 members arrived in Chengdu on June 29th, and moved on to Dujiangyan for a visit, which was severely hit by the Wenchuan Earthquake. Rice is [...]
First-hand Account from Chengdu
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Editor’s Note: Tony (Yixing) Zeng, a Canadian student, has graciously allowed us to reprint his email below, originally sent to a friend from an internet cafe in Chengdu just after the first earthquake. Major foreign media have covered this story upside and down, with the American National Public Radio’s Robert Siegel and Melissa Block [...]
Photos of Sichuan Before the Earthquake
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...I spent much of 2005 traveling throughout China on a consulting contract, taking in the sights when I could. Let us not forget what Sichuan offers, once rebuilt. As a reminder to those focused on destruction, here are a few photos I took at 峨眉山 (Mount Emei) and the 樂山大佛 (the great [...]
Gray Market Imports — Recent U.S. Court Ruling
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...In law, are gray market imports equivalent to pirated works? [Read this journal article on the implications for American libraries of imported pirated works from China.] Gray market imports are lawfully produced with the permission of the copyright holder, sold to a customer in a foreign country and then imported into another, often [...]
Teach English in North Korea!
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...If I were in my 20s, I’d jump on this opportunity.
Visit this webpage of the British Council for more information.
English Teacher Trainers, DPRK-based Pyongyang, reference OA08007
Senior English Teacher Trainer – £29,361 a year
English Teacher Trainer (three posts) – £25,772 a year
Contract from 1 September 2008 to 31 August 2009 (with the possibility of extension)
Benefits [...]
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