Today's Links: Mozilla, Shanghai F1 and crazy Beijingers

• Mozilla coming to China, seeking talent
  "The Chinese government has been enthusiastic about open source software systems such as Linux, and it seems likely that the Chinese market will be receptive to a greater adoption of Firefox, where currently IE is the default browser."
• Google partner in China is accused of abetting piracy
  "We have been watching [Shenzhen Xunlei Networking Technologies] for some time and we have observed that like many file-sharing networks/enablers in China, the content available through them includes copyright-infringing versions of Motion Picture Association member company films."
  (tags: china google tech internet mpa mpaa filesharing p2p ip)
• China's taste for wine is growing: study
  "China's consumption in terms of revenue will still pale in comparison to global leaders like the United States, the world's largest market in 2005 with sales valued at 19.17 billion dollars."
• Bo Yibo, leader who helped reshape China's economy, dies at 98
  "As one of the elderly but immensely influential party veterans who hovered above the country's appointed leadership in the 1980s and 1990s, Mr. Bo helped Deng Xiaoping, the paramount leader who died in 1997, overcome elite opposition to capitalist-style economic reforms."
• U.S. families puzzled by tighter China adoptions
  "New York lawyer Meg Tolan is the mother of three adopted daughters, all of them from China, but if she wanted to adopt another, she couldn't. Beijing no longer considers her a suitable parent."
  (tags: china adoption us unitedstates)
• Shanghai to remove beggars from tourist areas
  (in Chinese) Love seeing beggars on Nanjing Lu, the Bund, or People's Square? Well, soon they will become a relic of the past.
• Guangzhou cops use cameras to bust violators of the motorcycle ban.
  (in Chinese) Ever since motorcycles were banned from the city center of Guangzhou, the cops of have been busy trying to enforce these laws. They've mobilized 200 cops and are fining people around 200 rmb for breaking the law.
• My Wife, the ‘Foreigner’ in China
  "What my wife found in China without me around to inhibit the other Chinese she met was overwhelming hostility, both to the US and to herself."
  (tags: china)
• Lonely couple in Wuhan wants to hire 'daughter'
  "More than 100 people have signed up to become the 'daughter' of a retired couple in Wuhan in Hubei Province, who are looking for someone to take care of them after their son emigrated to Canada."
  (tags: china wuhan odd)
• Metro goes underground to muffle row
  "Most of Metro Line 2's extension to Pudong International Airport will be built underground to reduce noise and avoid land disputes, according to the city's urban construction Website."
• Four weeks after quake China’s Internet still crippled
  "International websites are still accessible from China, much in the same way that a magazine at the other end of a football field is technically readable if you have binoculars."
• City punishes 72 bad cabbies in 5 days
  "Shanghai traffic authority has punished 72 cabbies and busted two unauthorized cabs amid its campaign to discipline drivers' behaviors since January 11, Labor Daily reported today."
• Japanese school officials' Shanghai tour sparks ministry probe
  "But some members took advantage of the cheap tour and brought their own children instead of their students. Others do not even work for the schools covered by the program, according to the sources."
• Motor racing-China F1 unaffected by Shanghai scandal - official
  "China's Formula One Grand Prix will be unaffected by Shanghai's corruption scandal and will go ahead as planned in October, state media reported on Wednesday."
• 20% of Beijingers Mentally Unwell
  "Of the 20% described as mentally 'sub-healthy', 3% have emotional handicaps and 5% are depressed. Because of the aging of Beijing's population, many of the problems relating to mental health have become increasingly grave. The rate of 'serious mental disorder' among the over-60s is estimated at 21.48%."
• Chinese Girl Scores in Global Photo Contest
  "A college student from the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou garnered the top prize of the 2006 Sony Ericsson World View photo competition."
• Beijing University denies golf range plan
  "A golf range was never named on the renovation list of the university's eastern sports ground," the spokesperson said. "We never expected such a huge social uproar over it either."
• Smoking in China, No Smoke-Free Zones
  "What blocks such moves in China is an insidious alliance between smokers and the government, which monopolizes cigarette production and makes millions on taxes. In some provincial areas, the money coming from cigarette taxes make up half the local government revenue."

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