Fons Tuinstra from China Herald blogs about the Shenzhen city government's policy in increasing the city size by revamping the registration system and allowing floating population to settle in the city.
Fons Tuinstra from China Herald blogs about the Shenzhen city government's policy in increasing the city size by revamping the registration system and allowing floating population to settle in the city.
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.
Indolent Indio from the Philippines looks back to the '80s for lessons on surviving the present economic slowdown.
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