Extra! Extra! Magic pills, earthquakes and trains to Tibet

• Some 1,000 Chinese bloggers will soon begin earning 200 to 1,000 RMB a month by placing ads for antivirus programs on their websites. "These bloggers are not superstars," the story says. "They are mainly IT or finance professionals."
• "Beibei spent 3,000 yuan in total on the 'magic' pills, but it only left her with sore breasts and caused her an internal secretion disorder." Beibei is one of many women who believed that a pill could transfer fat from her hips to her breasts. More info here.
• Yes, but is your piano teacher government certified?
• Where to get your "dance on" in Shanghai.
• Foreign media in China also not allowed to report on "sudden incidents."
• Imagethief is wondering about Beijing's building codes, and rightfully so: There was a minor earthquake in the city yesterday.
• "China are crap at team sports."
• "Mostly [phrase books] are little marvels of pragmatic compression. But for that very reason, I like to find the occasional oddity-- sentences you can hardly conceive of ever using, little tidbits of inexplicability in an otherwise ruthlessly disciplined little work." That is the mission statement for They Thought You'd Say This. For the China section, however, we can envision all of the sentences being usable at times, except for maybe "I play the clarinet."
• A 26-year-old chimpanzee in Xi'an has finally quit smoking.
• The Urban Dream Capsule guys are finally finished. Most surprising part of the story: They have been doing this for 10 years.
• What did the Chinese know about bird flu? And when did they know it?
• Video of the Tibet railroad. Reporters' notes from the "first" voyage by train to Lhasa ... or is it?
• While we admittedly don't personally know many people who drive here, this is the first we have heard of someone getting a speeding ticket in Shanghai (through the mail no less).
• "We found you in a trash heap" ... and 99 other "sentences [Chinese] parents shouldn't say to their children."
• You'd be bored too if you were asked to sit though a 20-minute commercial break.

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