This post is from our coverage of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing China, curated by John Kennedy and sponsored by Reuters.
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Life 2.0 blogger Isaac Mao has compiled a list [zh] of news websites that were unblocked this past week for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games. Many are wondering how long they will remain unblocked; Mao writes: ‘hurry up and subscribe to them.'
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A fire burned down a hotel in a small town in An Hui province, 1 dead, 3 seriously injured when jumping down. It grabs the attention of blogsphere, however, not because it being thought as a tragedy, but that the 4 are all local officials long living there. It’s questioned whether that is a waste of public money for their living in the luxury hotel every day.
Chinese blogger Yang-zhizhu (杨支柱) sighed for the tragedy that a pair of parents choked their daughter so that they can have a boy under the cap of birth control in China, railing against the policy as forcing people to abandon “excessive” girls. In Chinese tradition, boys are much weighed over girls.
sad. just sad.