• the Nobel Prize? [UPI Asia] “Chen Ning Yang, the Chinese-American Nobel laureate in physics in 1957, remarked during a symposium at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2000 that Nobel prize-winning achievement will emerge from the Chinese mainland in 20 years time. I would like to pour cold water on Chen’s crystal ball gazing. Not only has China not accomplished anything close to a Nobel Prize, but also the time horizon for bagging it could be longer, if the country’s education and science and technology system continues to operate at its current standard.”
  • A North Korea that’s hard to get to know [Danwei] “Premier Wen Jiabao was recently in North Korea to broker deals about North Korea’s nuclear weapons program. Chinese media was there during the Premier’s trip, and included in the entourage was Rose Luqiu Luwei (????), who is an executive news editor for Hong Kong’s Phoenix Satellite Television. Rose Luqiu Luwei’s series of blog posts came up on the liberal blog aggregator that she set up, my1510.cn, and her own Phoenix TV blog.”
  • It’s tricky for wikis and online encyclopedias in China [CNN] “When Jimmy Wales visited the headquarters of Hudong.com last month, he had one question for its founder: is it possible for Wikipedia to be the number one online encyclopedia in China? “Absolutely not,” was the response of Pan Haidong, head of Hudong.com, the world’s largest Chinese encyclopedia website.”
  • Gold medals and golf: What Olympic inclusion means for the game in China [China Sports Today] “In a country where the Olympics are seen as the summit of sport, the ramifications of last Friday’s International Olympic Committee (IOC) announcement that golf and rugby sevens are to be included in the 2016 and 2020 Games will be huge. Golf, in particular, has had a short and startlingly fast development path in China.”
  • Third Tibetan-language satellite TV channel to be launched in SW China [Xinhua] “An 18-hour Tibetan-language satellite TV channel is expected to be launched on Oct. 28 in southwest China’s Sichuan Province, a local official said Thursday. The channel is the third Tibetan-language satellite TV channel in the country after two similar channels in Tibet Autonomous Region and Qinghai Province, where most of 5 million Tibetan minorities live, said He Daxin, head of the Sichuan Provincial Administration of Radio, Film and Television.”
  • Xinjiang Regimental Commander and his Wife both Fired [ChinaHush] “Responding to the incident of “Regimental Commander’s wife at Mogao Caves” couple days ago, on October 10th, the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps press office (?????????????) said that the recent spread of the post “the regimental commander and his wife used government vehicles for traveling during the holiday, and had conflict with the staff at the tourist attraction” on the internet has attracted the attentions of leaders of the Military Corps. The Crops has instructed the relevant department and units to investigate the matter, and will announced the result to the public timely. Thanks for netizens’ concern and support to the Military Corps.”

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