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Danwei Noon Report
Three Gorges movie wins Golden LionPosted by Jeremy Goldkorn, September 11, 2006 12:02 PM
Danwei Noon Report is a daily roundup of new and old media coverage about China from Chinese and English sources. Today's report includes contributions from David Drakeford.
The director in Venice From ABC: The Chinese movie "Sanxia Haoren," (三峡好人) or "Still Life," on Saturday took this year's Golden Lion, the top award at the Venice Film Festival. Jia previous films have Amazingly enough, the award has not yet earned Jia a condemnation or banning order from SARFT. Jia became well known to China cinaphiles and art movie buffs after his first film Xiao Wu or 'Pickpocket'.
Xinhua, Beijing’s official news agency, on Sunday issued rules demanding international counterparts censor news and information distributed in China and barring them from dealing directly with local clients. For informed comment on these new old new regulations, see Silicon Hutong: Xinhua: Trying to Save a Dying Monopoly.
"I believe that once we establish freedom in this way, even after the delegates and the athletes have gone home, China won't reverse it and the Games will have a lasting legacy of opening China to the world" (link).
A Hong Kong-based non-governmental organization will launch China's first financial awards for research on homosexuality next year as part of its efforts to eliminate discrimination against gay people... Wife gets death sentence for murdering husband who asked for divorce
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