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Coke and Huiyuan: Let the PR slanging begin

Posted Thursday, September 11, 2008 6:36 AM by will
Have a read of this post from the Wall Street Journal's China Journal blog on some of the communciation issues Coke is having around its attempted takeover of the Huiyuan juice company in China: More damaging may be the allegations that Coke is trying Read More...
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An angry-youth asks who you're calling brainwashed

Posted Tuesday, August 19, 2008 1:50 AM by will
Two or three weeks ago the New Yorker carried a good article by Evan Osnos on the phenomenon of China's "angry youth" ( fenqing ). Much of the article was a profile of one young man in particular. In truth, he sounds more passionate than angry. It's worth Read More...
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Is it OK to sing "Tibet" in a crowded Chinese theater?

Posted Tuesday, March 04, 2008 8:24 PM by will
Despite years as a college radio DJ, Imagethief has never had much time for Bjork. I find her pretentious to a degree not entirely compensated for by talent. But, then, I think the future of pop music died when Led Zep broke up, so you may want to control Read More...
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2007 best-of-Imagethief and statistics

Posted Tuesday, February 05, 2008 11:01 PM by will
There is no such thing as a dull year in China. 2008 is well underway and already looks like another whopper. We're only a month in and we've already had the biggest storms in half a century. The Olympics, the mother of all China events, is now a scant seven months off. God only knows what will happen in between. Read More...
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Notorious MDA: The Singapore government raps

Posted Sunday, November 25, 2007 3:35 AM by will
From time to time someone will ask me why I left Singapore for China. This is a fair question. I lived there for nearly a decade, Mrs. Imagethief is Singaporean, and I have great affection for the place. Usually I give some longish explanation about various Read More...
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