Michael from Two opposite end of China puts together news concerning bombings in Xinjiang and the Chinese official attitude towards minority.
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Michael from Two opposite end of China puts together news concerning bombings in Xinjiang and the Chinese official attitude towards minority.
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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