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- No time to burn paper money at your relatives' graves? Pay your respects online: "Several cemeteries and funeral companies in China have heeded the call, establishing online memorial halls promising access to relatives within seconds, 365 days a year. Shanghai Funeral Service Center claims to have had 40 million visits from respectful relatives grateful to pay respects at the click of a mouse since the service was introduced in 2001."
- China would like some credit for its condoms.
- From Howard French: "What is left of old Shanghai is under imminent threat, and - like a rain forest whose perimeter has been logged, drying it out and degrading the ecosystem - extraordinarily fragile." Nothing new here, of course. But a message that deserves repeating again and again.
- United States, built by immigrants, wants its 39,000 illegal Chinese immigrants to get the f*ck out. (But they'd also like more Chinese to visit Hawaii.)
- Is Yao Ming getting married in Shanghai this summer?
- "They even threatened me with dirty words" ... and other reasons not to let strangers take your photo at the Bund.
- What's the 411 on new mobile phone digits? 159.
- Hu Jintao's daughter used the name "Mrs. David Mao" to attend the recent Armani show in Shanghai unnoticed.
- Super Voice Girls earned Hunan Satellite TV 100 million yuan last year. Meanwhile, He Jiong, the host of the show, has quit to focus on his music career.
- From Computerworld: "Yahoo Holdings (Hong Kong) Ltd. could face a fine, a civil lawsuit, or both if it is found to have illegally divulged personal data used to put a Chinese journalist in jail for 10 years."
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Well, Hu Jintao's daughter IS a Mrs. Mao. Hu Haiqing married Mao Daolin, Sina.com's former CEO and a Shanghai native, a little while ago. But I thought Mao Daolin's English name was Daniel... maybe it was a typo.
Well, that makes sense. Guess I need to study up on the first family.
"United States, built by immigrants, wants its 39,000 illegal Chinese immigrants to get the f*ck out."
The United States was built primarily by LEGAL immigrants. As someone who has worked to obtain a number of legal visas for Chinese to visit the US, and made sure that they stayed within their legal obligations while in the US, I can tell you that throwing out these guys is a generous fate for them. Allowing them to stay hurts those who want to visit the country legally by forcing immigration officials to deny many visas because they are not sure if they will return to China. If the officials were comfortable that those who are unable to follow the laws would be deported and not allowed to return, everyone could easily get a visa. As it is now, hundreds of thousands of honest hard working Chinese are denied the opportunity to visit the US because of those "immigrants" who failed to live up to their obligations. It's a huge problem and the misguided tongue-in-cheek criticism of actually enforcing immigration law your brief comment represents is harmful to both America and Chinese. To suggest that these people shouldn't be deported is to suggest that anyone who obtains a 30 day tourist visa to the US should be allowed to immigrate. If that were true, there would be no 30 day visas and America would truly be isolated.
Forget the Chinese illegals. The bigger problem here is the Mexicans. They should be focusing their resources on stemming the Mexican migration/"immigration" instead. There are millions of Mexican illegals swarming in. Why pick on a measly 39,000 Chinese?
The discussion on immigration issues in the US is much more complicated than could possibly be addressed here.
UC, agreed that illegal immigration hurts those aspiring to immigrate legally.
And Steph, what exactly do you fear from the swarming hordes of illegal Mexicans? First, although many of the illegal immigrants in the US are indeed from Mexico, they are not alone. Second, I'm fairly certain they are not after YOUR job. Illegal immigrants perform the dangerous, dirty, low-paying jobs that most Americans refuse to take. I'm not attempting to defend illegal activities. But the reality is if we deported all illegal immigrants tomorrow, the US economy would come to a grinding halt. No question. This is not so different from the situation in China. Would Shanghai have grown, or continue to grow, as it has without many illegal migrant workers from across China?