Clarification on writing credits

Just a note of clarification on writing credits here. All the recent news summaries are written by Shantou J-school students — not by me, as the photo and the title “author” on its side might suggest.
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Happy Chinese New Year 2008

It’s a bit late to give our new year’s greeting here, but late is better than never! We wish all our blog readers and visitors enjoyed the New Year vocation and ready to welcome a fantastic 2008.
There were a few changes in Myshantou...

English Journalism in Shantou

…As in English-language, not England. Thanks to the Li Ka Shing foundation, Shantou University has engaged in a great deal of reform in the last few years. One of the schools that has changed a lot is the one I work for, the Cheung Kong journali...

A new look, a new start

Hey, how is Myshantou’s new look, like it? We have been using the old template since the beginning and it’s time to fresh up with a new one. I have spent my whole day twisting with it. Most of the work are done but there are still a bit mo...

MyShantou.net will continue

As stated in the previous post, Maggie is going to leave Shantou very soon. It’s a sad news for this blog as she has contributed a lot to this blog. As a friend and a co-founder, I would like to thank her for supporting and writing for us since ...

Maggie’s resignation

I think now is a good point at which to formally announce that I shall be leaving Shantou at the end of July, and not coming back. Very probably not coming back. It’s been a nice three and a half years, but the world is big and I’m going...

Why this site is in English

One of our readers, Jianfu45, just left a comment that I think it’s worth to put it as a new post because it shows readers’ opinions about this blog. This is very encouraging when I heard from our visitors or readers. Thanks for your opini...

The Interview

Finally managed to convert the interview and upload it here.
To be honest we were originally wanted to say about this blog, but after meeting us with us, they were very much impressive by Maggie’s Chinese and decided to move the angle to h...

Hello, again!

Still, the most powerful media in Shantou is TV. We are lucky enough to get such a good PR from Shantou TV station. This can be proved by the number of emails I’ve received, comments in this blog, and dramatic increasing page view after the prog...

We are back & On TV!

I didn’t know the earthquake broke down the Internet for such a long time. If you read about the news (1, 2), you will know what happened. After I wrote about the earthquake, the next day I started having difficulties accessing this blog, because it...