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- The BBC, long blocked by Chinese web censors, appears to be following in Google's footsteps regarding the internet in China. Shanghaiist finds foreign news organizations self censoring more disturbing than search engines. Who is next?
- Wu Xianghu, the deputy editor of the Taizhou Evening News, "died of liver and kidney failure after he was severely beaten by police enraged by reports in his newspaper about their work." He was 41. ESWN has photos of the attack. Taizhou is in Zhejiang province.
- Another way of looking at coal mine accident stats in China.
- Gaaagle.com: "China's been Gaaagled. Don't Gaaagle free speech, free information."
- More information about Shanghai's "first AIDS restaurant."
- Google set to buy Bokee.com?
- Said Disney President and Chief Executive Officer Robert Iger: "On theme parks, we have ongoing discussions, ongoing and ongoing and ongoing with the Chinese government about a park in Shanghai." Hopefully Shanghai's park has better ticket policies than the one in Hong Kong.
- Xinhua reports: "China's financial center of Shanghai was hit by its first salinity crisis this year -- but tap water remained safe." Since when has Shanghai's tap water been safe?
- Wong Kar-Wai is said to be working on a Hurricane Katrina-based film set in New Orleans. He wants to cast Adrien Brody in the lead role. Also, The Lady from Shanghai, Wong's planned project with Nicole Kidman, may be put off indefinitely.
- Try not to sit next to this man at an awards show.
- The Zhanjiang Incident: China's latest village uprising "will probably be counted among the almost 100,000 mass incidents that have occurred or will occur in year 2006."
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