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- Hungry pandas a casualty of China’s quakes [Canada.com] "When the devastating earthquake struck Sichuan province last May, the natural disaster that befell the region’s best-known residents, the giant Pandas, paled next to the overwhelming scope of the human tragedy. Only one panda was confirmed dead and one lost, but great swathes of mountains crumbled, taking with them the bamboo forests that pandas feed on, leaving the fuzzy animals without their primary source of nourishment. Now, local Sichuan farmers are reporting pandas on their doorstep, begging for food."
- Green-Tech Space Race [The New Yorker] "After so many years of hearing about China’s horrendous environmental conditions and prodigious coal reserves, it might be startling to realize that China is far outpacing the U.S. on green-energy investment. But the details have now been laid out in unambiguous detail by Ben Furnas at the Center for American Progress."
- Name Not on Our List? Change It, China Says [NY Times] "For Ma Cheng and millions of others, Chinese parents’ desire to give their children a spark of individuality is colliding head-on with the Chinese bureaucracy’s desire for order. Seeking to modernize its vast database on China’s 1.3 billion citizens, the government’s Public Security Bureau has been replacing the handwritten identity card that every Chinese must carry with a computer-readable one, complete with color photos and embedded microchips. The new cards are harder to forge and can be scanned at places like airports where security is a priority."
- The Chinese government's smart media move [Telegraph.co.uk] "The Chinese-language Global Times may be an arm of the People's Daily, but it has become very influential as practically the only sharply-written source of international news. The English edition was launched with some fanfare, has 100 journalists and will print 100,000 copies a day at 1.5 yuan (15p)... I think that, when you compare the English and Chinese editions, it looks at first glance that the English version is a far subtler and more sophisticated beast."
- Ancestor of T rex found in China [BBC] "Uncovered near the city of Jiayuguan, the fossil finds come from a novel tyrannosaur dubbed Xiongguanlong baimoensis. The fossils date from the middle of the Cretaceous period, and may be a "missing link", tying the familiar big T rex to its much smaller ancestors."
- Understanding Chinese Web site names [Ryan McLaughlin] "And while the West has an ever-convoluted domain pool to deal with, the Chinese are not to be out done. What follows is my modest attempt to explain the meaning behind some of China's largest Web sites and their sometimes obscure domain names."
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