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- China gets called up by the UN to defend its human rights record, but refuses to answer questions on the alleged mistreatment of dissidents and prisoners.
- Google China promises that it, unlike Baidu, will not manipulate its search results. Still, that doesn't stop Rebecca MacKinnon, former CNN China correspondent and a few educated others from musing, "Did Google sell out in China?" China also agrees today to give foreign financial news providers better access to information.
- The Wall Street Journal compares the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis to the 2008 crisis. China could be in a better position now than it was 10 years ago.
- Beijingers are starting to call the new CCTV tower the "Big Underpants". The local press instead suggests "Wisdom Window", which sounds better in English, but a lot more like "hemorrhoids" in Chinese.
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It's funny that the issue of Google China possibly seeling out the main results is coming up now.
I have a friend who works in Xindongfang school who told me they definitely do and that they buy several keywords then have to pay google per click. He said he knew this because he had been to a Google China 'thank you best clients' dinner.
So, I really pushed him about this insisting that it had to be google ads, or sponsored links, or anything but the main listings. He then checked back with the marketers and came back saying 'nope, deifintely main listings and it's being going on for the whole time'.
I gave this lead to Sha-iist a while back. I never called the school directly or google. But my friend who will not be named is the school.
Or then again, perhaps they are all just really confused?
Someone can go for the scoop if they want to.
I read in the New Yorker magazine in America, they are calling it "Big Shorts". That is a great name, and it really is what it looks like! Also, it really cracks me up to say it.
Here's a scoop: nothing is surprising once you've lived here long enough.
chen shun bien can die if he wants to, i wouldnt really mind
@ El Hefe
Yeah, that's more succinct way of putting it.
I noticed with great interest how bbc had tried by any mean not to zoom out and show the whole picture of big shorts, when reporting an opportunitist american there showing free tibet sign during olympic game. its long-ready camera even dared not to show anything above third floor.
yes, because the locals are laughing enough already, no need to have Europe laughing too.
well, i remember it is originally an european thing which is so ugly that bbc dared not to show.
You don't actually mean CCTV threw money at some architects and said "here, throw something together", right?
big shorts were a ready-made european design finished somes years ago, not tailor-made for cctv. designers only found beijing as experiment ground while chinese paid them generously. only now i realized european taste is so low and style so kitsch and ugly. bbc had evry reason not to show it to europeans since it would make them so ashamed that they dont even dare to switch on light to see their blushing face at night.
The European designers wanted to get rid of the design so they told CCTV that "no one else has a design like this anywhere in the world! China would be the first!". hook, line and sinker.
@ eastman
"only now i realized european taste is so low and style so kitsch and ugly."
Prey tell, how would you describe Chinese taste? And please point to something designed by Chinese for reference? You really are a pathetic and racist little man.
to nanheyangrouchuan boy
--"European designers wanted to get rid of the design"
you finally posted something bright. and i can well imagine how big shorts always remind you of that patented full metal slips you are wearing as a shield against your classmates behind, lol!
to pubilease girl,
if i critised european taste and style of this big pants, it wouldnt neccesarily mean i admired chinese design. your life long logic problem seems to stay forever, you "pathetic and racist" little girl.
@ leastman
You seem to have a thing for a patented metal slip. Are you wearing one? Seems to have your sack in a pinch.
And since people are bringing up "pants" in relation to this building, to me it seems to resemble Homer Simpson's blue pants. Maybe someone ought to nickname it the Homer Simpson building and open a doughnut shop and seedy bar nearby (Would Kiwi Pete move to Beijing?).