Extra! Extra! Money shots, gold farmers and panda biters

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  • Grainy images from Jackie Chan's "porn career."
  • SH magazine staffers choose the "ugliest buildings in China." Doesn't appear they've seen much of China.
  • In March, we told you about a "work in progress" documentary about "gold farmers" -- people in China who get paid to gather virtual assets for online gamers abroad. Well, Gold Farmers no longer appears to be a work in progress. Check out its website.
  • More on Wal-Mart unions in China.
  • Utne asks if China is "still the Kingdom of Bicycles"? And they direct us to a Sierra Club story called "Shanghai by bike."
  • Quotes from a drunk man who hopped the fence and jumped into the panda area at the Beijing Zoo, then woke up a panda, got bitten by the panda, kicked the panda, got bitten again and then bit the panda back: "I bit the fellow in the back. Its skin was quite thick. ... No one ever said they would bite people. I just wanted to touch it. I was so dizzy from the beer. I don't remember much."
  • The controversial would-you-choose-to-be-Chinese online poll we recently told you about has turned up in the mainstream media.
  • Northwest Airlines has emailed frequent flyers in a last-minute drive to win the coveted China route. NWA isn't the only one: We got an email from American Airlines yesterday.
  • Rupert Murdoch is bringing MySpace to China.

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Most of China's new buildings seem to have a phallic thing going on...makes you wonder, especially with the concurrent girl shortage.

Those unions in China are toothless and the employees know it, only foreigners have any real hope.

Perhaps its a good thing that poll is coming out, and Xinhua is clamping down financial news reporting, all of those blood flag waving panda huggers can't deny the truth anymore.

Rupert Murdoch is a punk.

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