Tim Collard's blog on (and off) the Daily Telegraph

This blog is based on the one I write on the Daily Telegraph website (blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/author/timcollard). But it also contains posts which the Telegraph saw fit to spike, or simply never got round to putting up.

I'm happy for anyone to comment, uncensored, on anything I have to say. But mindless abuse, such as turns up on the Telegraph site with depressing regularity (largely motivated my my unrepentant allegiance to the Labour Party), is disapproved of. I am writing under the name which appears on my passport and birth certificate; anyone else is welcome to write in anonymously, but remember that it is both shitty and cowardly to hurl abuse from under such cover. I see the blogosphere as the equivalent of a pub debate: a bit of knockabout and coarse language is fine, but don't say anything that would get you thumped in the boozer. I can give as good as I get, and I know how to trace IP addresses.

Thursday, 16 July 2009

A Chinese newspaper for Africa

With the Chinese presence in Africa expanding all the time, it is nice to know that the chaps aren’t short of reading material. Chinese entrepreneur Miles Nan, who has been beavering away in Botswana for ten years, has just started a Chinese newspaper for his exiled compatriots. It is called Chinese Expats’ Weekly, or, in more mellifluous English, the Oriental Post. It ensures that they are kept acquainted with the official view from home, and not flummoxed by confusingly diverse opinions on the issues of the day.

Though the Chinese Embassy deny any involvement on the editorial side, Mr Nan knows which side his bread is buttered: “Concerning Chinese politics, we shouldn’t, and we don’t, publish anything and everything. It’s just like that.” It is indeed.
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