Further to my post yesterday The Nation newspaper here is reporting this morning that office towers in central Bangkok were evacuated and staff sent home yesterday afternoon. Vibrations were felt and recorded at several places in the Thai capital.
[...] Spencer, who’s in Beijing, said he wasn’t surprised to feel the earthquake -until he released how far away the epicenter of the quake was. Apparently the quake could be felt as far away as Bangkok. [...]
David Wertime from the Tea Leaf Nation blogs about a serial rape crime committed by a local official in Henan province who had raped “nearly one hundred” young girls. So far the local police have identified a doze victims the youngest was born in 2001.
Fauna from ChinaSMACK translated a feature story showing German photographer Michael Wolf's collection of “Architecture of Density” which reflects the living condition of ordinary Hong Kong people in high-rises.
Storify user @Jaeminposted a review on the President's Barber, a movie which well depicted how ordinary people's lives suffered under a dictatorial military regime back in the 1970s and 80s in South Korea.
An atheist blogger who works as an English teacher in South Korea, Chris Hallquist wrote about some efforts made to strip evolution out of science textbooks. Based on his experience in South Korea which he defines as ‘a pretty secular country', the blogger commented on the Christian organizations' influence on publishers.
Again, a Chinese man was brutally killed on May 15 by dipper when he tried to stop his home from being razed by the government-employed demolition team in Heilongjiang province. (Ministry of Tofu has translated the news.)
Further to my post yesterday The Nation newspaper here is reporting this morning that office towers in central Bangkok were evacuated and staff sent home yesterday afternoon. Vibrations were felt and recorded at several places in the Thai capital.