This post is from our coverage of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing China, curated by John Kennedy and sponsored by Reuters. · All posts
ChinaBounder, the country's first major (English-language) male sex blogger, is back after a prolonged blogging absence with a China-bashing book, excerpts of which will be released each day from now through to the end of the Olympics. See Jeremy Goldkorn's post at Danwei for more revealing info.
Adil Najam discusses about a recently released list of 8000 persons including the president of Pakistan and 34 Pakistani politicians who have benefited from the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO), promulgated by former president Pervez Musharraf on Oct 5, 2007. This ordinance “grants amnesty to all those against whom politically-motivated cases were registered between Jan 1, 1986, and Oct 12, 1999.”
A female student Wang Zifei, who sat behind Obama when he delivered his speech at the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum, has become a Internet celebrity. Local media recently found out that her boyfriend actually paid 100,000 yuan to hire a Beijing Internet promotional strategy company to use the opportunity of Obama's speech to hype up the ‘Obama girl.' (via ESWN)
Xue Ying from CNreview reports on a tech conference in Beijing concerning the development of microblogging in China.
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50 Reasons Why China May Never Be Great by chinabounder? you gotta be f* kidding me! I mean, come on – is this guy serious? I would probably buy his “50 ways to get laid in China” rather than this one. If i want to know 50 Reasons Why China May Never Be Great, wouldn’t I get a book done by prominent economist or politician?
So question for the book buyers, why would you trust a d1ckhead for his political and economic views (in buying his book) when he is only famous for his d1ck?