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Three years in China 2:25pm on 07 Jul 2009 I hope BBC's new guy in China does not practise "selective truth" reporting.
What really happened 3:35pm on 20 Jun 2009 On the subject of "mistake", I have the following story to tell.

BBC World News aired a report on Beijing's air quality on July 8th, 2008, exactly one month before the opening of the Beijing Olympics. The reporter, James Reynolds, with a hand-held equipment in his hand which showed a reading of 351 (micrograms/cubic meter), declared that Beijing's airborne particles (known as PM10) were seven times higher than WHO's air quality guideline for PM10. It was not a mistake. It was a "selective truth".

James Reynolds however did make a "mistake" in that he also wrote a piece on the subject in his blog titled "Testing pollution levels". In that article, he disclosed that he tested Beijing's PM10 for seven consecutive days from July 1st to 7th, 2008, and the readings for the seven days were 121, 172, 122, 351, 112, 27, and 242.
Conflict of party and private lifestyles 1:55pm on 11 Jun 2009 As far as I know, Bo never submitted any fraudulent expenses claim to China's NPC.
Conflict of party and private lifestyles 1:12pm on 10 Jun 2009 How come the Chinese internet comments sounded so English? I remain perplexed despite much thought.
Today's generation of young people 6:31pm on 03 Jun 2009 When the Chinese youths were not "quiet" and criticised the western media for the way they reported the Tibetan riots in Lhasa in March 2008 and the violent disruption of Beijing Olympic torch relay in some western cities in April 2008, they were "brainwashed" by the CCP.

The Chinese government should thank the western media for making the Chinese youths today very much more patriotic.
As if 1989 never happened 5:52pm on 03 Jun 2009 #49 tclim38

At the time, the Chinese government had neither crowd control experience nor equipment like water canon and tear gas.
Facing swine flu scrutiny 3:27pm on 02 Jun 2009 My post #13 quoted the comment of Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General of WHO, on how China responded to the swine flu outbreak.

How has it broken the House Rules?
As if 1989 never happened 2:39pm on 02 Jun 2009 Why has BBC started "commemorating" the event on June 1?
As if 1989 never happened 2:36pm on 02 Jun 2009 There were many western journalists at Tiananmen Square on June 3 and 4,1989. They published many pictures of the protests. Can they also publish pictures of the "massacre" (not just tanks rolling over barricades)?

There were eyewitnesses who gave different account of what actually happened on June 3 and 4.
When does old age begin? 3:52pm on 19 May 2009 When many people in east Asia including China are worried by the spread of Influenza A/H1N1 to the region, James wrote a piece in his blogg about the apparent absence of grey hair on the heads of Chinese leaders.

I do have friends in their 50s and 60s who don't have any noticeable grey hair on their heads too, and I know they don't use hair dye.

May be it's because they are not busybody? Or they don't spend most of their precious time looking for other people's faults?

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