Today's Links: iPhone, Best Buy and rumors
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"Even though the official Asian launch date for the Apple iPhone is not until 2008, users of the China’s Taobao auction site can already buy the ‘revolutionary’ phone. No wonder Taobao could beat eBay in the China market ..."
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"Syphilis, virtually eradicated in China under Mao Zedong, has become a viciously-growing epidemic there, driven by prostitution, internal migration and poor health controls, a new study warns."
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"The State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) will crack down on vulgar reality shows in 2007, said Wang Taihua, general director of the SARFT on Friday."
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"Amid official silence over the graft case against Shanghai's disgraced Communist Party chief, unlicensed tomes are stepping into the void with what they claim is the inside scoop on his downfall."
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"China's breakneck growth took its worst ever toll on the environment last year, the state media said today quoting a report that revealed serious pollution spills are occurring almost every other day."
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"A video shows a single line of people slowly trudging up a snow-covered footpath. A shot is heard; the first person in line falls. A voice-over says, “They are shooting them like dogs.” Another shot, and another body drops to the ground. ..."
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"If Best Buy can maintain the quality and service level that they have in their Chinese flagship store as they branch out to more locations, then domestic home electronics and appliance retailers like Gome and Suning, not to mention a legion of computer a
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"Seismologists in eastern China's Shanghai have denied a rumor that the city will be hit by a strong earthquake and a tsunami this year, alleviating local worries."
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"TYPHOONS, scorching hot weather and other disastrous or extreme weather will be more common in the city this year than last, the Shanghai Meteorological Bureau forecast yesterday."
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"Organisers of a tobacco industry conference in Hong Kong are fuming after discovering it will be a no-smoking event thanks to the city's new smoking ban, a report has said." Hahahahaha.
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"J.C. Penney Co. removed some fur-trimmed coats from its racks around Christmas after animal-rights activists objected that the fur came from wild dogs in China."
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"Human rights conditions in China deteriorated last year even as the country sought to portray itself as an increasingly open, modern society ahead of the 2008 Olympics, Human Rights Watch said in a report."
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"A fatal virus has contaminated pork sold in Beijing. A big earthquake will rock Shanghai, causing a deadly tsunami. Sudden death was the common fear among residents of two cities over the weekend. And the source of the rumors in both cases was ..."
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"Chinese companies that supply U.S. retailers with billions of dollars worth of toys, furniture and other goods every year face a painful squeeze as the yuan rises, setting off a race to cut costs or find new products that Americans will pay more for."
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"Not sure how it is I never noticed this before, but just now realized the IP Dragon blog has an excellent and very long permanent list of China's laws in English, with an intellectual property (IP) slant."
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"In the last month of 2006, consumers spent more than RMB90 million on Taobao.com each day and the figure broke RMB100 million per day during the official three-day 2007 New Year holiday."
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"Although China's Ministry of Information declared earlier that the "15″ and "18″ number sections would be reserved for 3G use, a representative from Shanghai Mobile said that the new "158″ number section they were going to launch this time ..."
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"CineWiki (中文电影维基), an ambitious project that aims to be a Chinese-language encyclopedia of film, formally launched on 28 December, 2006."
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