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Peijin Chen from Shanghaiists puts together some local reports about the first look discrimination case in China: A 23 year-old Henan woman named Qiu Zi (秋子) may become the center of China's first appearance-related work discrimination case after accusing a company of firing her because her head is too big.
Jeremy Goldkorn from DANWEI alerts the readers that Chinabounder (a blog recounting foreign guy's sexual experience with Chinese woman) is back and fighting back. He quoted a recent cold blood murder of a young girl in Hunan, and asked why didn't the netizens witch hunt the murderer.
Li Yin he will submit a proposal in the coming National people's congress on same sex marriage legislation (zh).
UDPS Liege writes (Fr): “A taximan was just cowardly assassinated in his own house, in front of his wife and children by the GSSP who had requested money from him. It is on Avenue Bikela in the town of Ngaliema, in UPN-Kinzonzi. This all happened around midnight.”
One of the most popular English newspaper in Cameroon, Eden, has recently established its presence online, writes Dibussi Tande.
This Is Zimbabwe writes about human rights abuses in Zimbabwe's informal gold-mining sector: “One has to look back a decade to understand the regime’s haphazard stance on gold panning, which has left the desperate panners confused and now threatened with violence and starvation.”
Bahrain blogger Esraa posts hilarious pictures of errors made in translations from Arabic to English and vice-versa.
As they say here, Morsy is the first presidential candidate ever to run for presidency against his will, and people...
What the f***? A african man again...why people want to deleted on the worldwide Africans or Black mens?!... Really outrageous. France is maybe...
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In my opinion, the only slang from this list which is falling out of vogue is the nickname of Medvedev...
I'm from Russia, use internet daily, and I didn't know half of these words. The other slang words are not...