Danwei Noon Report is a daily roundup of new and old media coverage about China from Chinese and English sources. Bill Zhang contributed to this report.

Oriana Fallaci meets Deng Xiaoping in 1980 - see Xinhua story

If at first you don't succeed... Bruno Wu, head of the Chinese media empire Sun Media, admits to meeting "my financial Waterloo" at the hands of Rupert Murdoch. Several years ago, he spent $100m (£53m) trying to make a success of his satellite television channel, Sun TV, but couldn't knock the US tycoon's Star TV off the top spot in China.

Instead of getting mad, Wu decided to get even and in 2004 he came up with a new five-year plan ("in China we do everything in five-year plans," he jokes). This one, he hopes, will eventually crown Sun Media as China's number-one company in new media. If he cannot rule the airwaves at home, he fully intends to rule the internet instead...

...Sun Media, which owns a number of newspapers and magazines, made its biggest internet push in February with the launch of the "Her Village" online community. Aimed at blue-collar women, links to Her Village appear on hundreds of websites in China....

...At the same time, Sun Media launched an online community for business people on the back of its financial newspaper, the China Business Post. Another two million have signed up. (Link)

Xinhua: Oriana Fallaci obituary
Oriana Fallaci (June 29, 1929 – September 15, 2006) , Italian journalist, author, and political interviewer died in her native Florence, Italy. She was 77 years old and had been suffering from breast cancer for some 15 years.

She was called "our most celebrated female writer" by Ferruccio De Bortoli, former director of the newspaper Corriere della Sera. Decades ago, the Los Angeles Times described her as "the journalist to whom virtually no world figure would say no"

She interviewed Deng Xiaoping in 1980 shortly after China's reform and opening up to the world. (See Xinhua report in Chinese, The Guardian)

Keeping Mao fresh
Ching-Ching Ni of the Los Angeles Times reports on the changing of the Mao portrait that hangs on Tiananmen:

Because the portrait is hung outside and exposed to the elements, it can easily fade and crack. The image is covered with gesso so a new one can be painted on top. When it is removed for repainting, it is replaced by an identical Mao portrait that has been freshened. The two portraits rotate each year.

The repainting takes place each August and September. The switch typically happens a few days before the Oct. 1 national holiday, when China celebrates the birth of the nation. (Link)

New China news aggregators
On the heels of Yuehan, here is another China News Aggregator that includes headlines and thumbnails of China related content on news websites, blogs, Youtube, Flickr and Del.icio.us: it's called Virtual Review.

Man rejects penis transplant
The world's first penis transplant was successfully performed in China, but the recipient asked to have the new organ removed because of psychological stress the member was causing his wife. The Guardian has the story.

Shipbuilding in China
China Law Blog looks at China's increasing importance in the shipbuilding industry (link).