By John Koblin 5/19/08 3:01pm

David Barboza Wins Internal Times Award, $1,500

David Barboza, the Times‘ business reporter based in Shanghai, has won the paper’s internal business award, the Nathaniel Nash Award. The award is named after Mr. Nash, who died in a plane crash in Croatia while on assignment for the Times. With the award, Mr. Barboza gets a check for $1,500!

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By Staff 1/30/06 4:14pm

International Usage Guide: “Gong Li”

A David Barboza business story in today’s New York Times, about difficulties surrounding the Chinese release of Memoirs of a Geisha, contains the following passage:

Although the film chronicles the world of Japanese geishas, it stars three actresses from the Chinese film world: Ziyi Zhang, who earned a Golden Globe nomination as best actress for Read More