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Obscurity is here to stay for the residents of a distant northern Chinese town, it seems, judging from a post this week from Chongqing-based blogger-journalist Ran Yunfei. 中国的县之多，从未听说过某一县，当然不足为奇。比如山西的方山县，我就从未听说过。但最近这个县的县委书记张国彪来了个铁腕政策，打着为保护未成年学生的幌子，关掉该县县城所有网吧，干涉商人经商之自由，以及人们了解信息之自由。还被许多人赞美，这真是滑天下之大稽。 There are...
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Kaishin in Japundit reports that a samurai theme park is on sale now, and the price is roughly: USD$8,200,000.
One in four households in Japan have no savings, alexpappas blogs about a survey result.
BWG blogs a survey about how parents in Hong Kong react when they got frustrated with their kids' studies: Get out! go away! I don't want to see you anymore.
Ai wei wei discusses the way how the government deal with fairness and justice by presenting two legal cases: Let us discuss fairness and equality, the foundations for social morality. Democracy
and checks and balances are the basic conditions for guaranteeing fairness and justice. Short of these basic conditions, any talk of fairness and justice becomes self-deluding.
Wang Xiao-feng discusses about the fashion of “digital sex” writings and its potential impact on sex attitude in China (zh): some writers pretend to be experts in sex, but the writings are just pornographics.
Lyn Jeffery in Virtual China introduces a new website called “little fatty net”. It is a new generation youth website.
Valentine Michael Smith reports on a meeting convened in Bermuda to discuss the subject of independence, where 23% of the attendeed were “confused expats thinking they were attending a screening of The Sound of Music”.
I guess it has to do with humanizing a figure we prefer to see as super-natural. The almost funny thing...
people of maldives..you have to stop this civil war. its sad to see it in this state of affairs....
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I do not support capital punishment, in this instance there have no other alternative. What these killers have done is...