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Chongqing fans, upset on a defeat, blocking a bus carrying Chengdu fans home, via rednet.com.cn
Read MoreMichael Zhao
Michael Zhao graduated from UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, where he produced an in-depth multimedia thesis on electronic waste dumping from the rich world to developing countries. He also made a short documentary on the same topic, available on his personal site. He now works at Asia Society's Center on US-China Relations as a multimedia producer in New York. Michael worked for the New York Times Beijing Bureau as a reporting assistant from 2003-2005. He graduated from the Beijing Language & Culture University with a bachelor's degree in English. He co-authored a book on learning Chinese language and culture, Urban Chinese: Mandarin in 21st Century China. Michael was born and grew up in Wuhan, China.
Government-funded courts find ways to deliver justice – Shanghai Daily
From Shanghai Daily: China Central Television recently reported a case in which 12 peasants won an administrative suit against Zhejiang Provincial Government. The issue of contention was a land requisition project in a village in Fenghua, Zhejiang Province. According to statistics from the Supreme People’s Court, over the past seven years courts in China have […]
Read MoreWannabe woman funded by transsex celeb – China Daily
From China Daily (photo: transsexual candidate Zhang Lei, via chinadaily.com.cn): A 24-year-old male Chinese, determined to become a woman, got financial support Sunday from South Korean transsexual entertainer Ha Ri-su to finance his gender alteration surgery, Qilu Evening News reported Monday. In 2005, Zhang told his parents about his transsexual plan, to his father’s fury […]
Read MoreEating Human Fetuses in China – ESWN
Cantonese are known for a penchant for exotic food, but this is much crazier, not verified by CDT. Translated by EastSouthWestNorth blog: According to a notice from the Obscene Articles Tribunal, an inspection of the content of Issue No. 304 of Taiwan’s resulted in the magazine being classified as Category III obscene due to the […]
Read MoreNailing nail houses – South China Morning Post
Nail house domino in the works? Here is another from Shenzhen, reported by South China Morning Post, via Simon World (photo: the Shenzhen nail house, via Simon World): Developers wanting to turn a Shenzhen site into the city’s tallest building are being blocked by an obstinate Hong Kong man whose building has become the mainland’s […]
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