PR Newswire is seeking a leading business expert (company executive or academic) in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Seattle to sit on a panel. This person will address the need to improve communications in China in order to improve trade and understanding.

This expert may also focus on the Chinese economy and what it means to Western companies. The discussion will focus on media distribution, market overview, cultural expectations and differences, etc.

Contact David Korvah, David.Korvah (at) prnewswire.com. David’s deadline is August 29, 2007.

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On the front page of this week’s PRWeek there is an article about how Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide, through a joint venture with Tsinghua University in Beijing, has indirectly helped counsel government ministries and companies in China on communicating with various worldwide audiences about its recent spate of manufacturing debacles and product recalls.

How effective is the counseling when the former head of China’s top food and drug safety agency was sentenced to death this past May after pleading guilty to corruption and accepting bribes?

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It’s all how you spin things.

“A Chinese government official at a United Nations summit in Athens on internet governance has claimed that no Net censorship exists at all in China. The article includes an exchange by a Chinese government official and a BBC reporter over the blocking of the BBC in China.”

From the article: “I don’t think we should be using different standards to judge China. In China, we don’t have software blocking Internet sites. Sometimes we have trouble accessing them. But that’s a different problem. I know that some colleagues listen to the BBC in their offices from the Webcast. And I’ve heard people say that the BBC is not available in China or that it’s blocked. I’m sure I don’t know why people say this kind of thing. We do not have restrictions at all.”

How do you say Baghdad Bob in Chinese?

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