| Español: | China: Explosiona restaurante Xinjiang |
Beijing-based Twitter user Maggie Rauch had her camera ready when her local Xinjiang food restaurant exploded on Friday morning. “Could feel the explosion from my apartment,” she writes on her Twitpic of the blast. “Some of the guys who work there standing outside.” One week remains until the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China.
Tobias Harris from Observing Japan blogs about the Hatoyama government's attempt in building a transparent and open government.
ESWN translated a local news story about a female deputy editor-in-chief, Le Qian, being assaulted by an attacker in front of her home.
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