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- Girl dumps boy, boy posts naked pictures [Shanghai Daily] "About 30 pictures of a naked woman together with her personal information including her name, age and family address had been posted on a popular online forum by a person claiming to be her ex-boyfriend. The person, identified as "Garros," said that he had been recently dumped by the woman surnamed Yin after his business failed."
- Dongguan lifts ban on nightclub pole dancing [szdaily] "DONGGUAN lifted a ban on pole dancing performances at city nightclubs in a revised rule formulated to regulate local recreational businesses last week. The ban, which has been a controversial issue since it was listed in a draft rule, was groundless because of lack of legal support, the city’s cultural bureau told the Guangzhou Daily."
- Ted Turner: China a Good Example of Population Control, Despite Forced Abortions [Lifenews] "Billionaire broadcast magnate Ted Turner is causing guffaws from observers with his latest comment on family planning in China. He lauded the Asian nation for its population control program and said it was a good example even though it is rife with forced abortions and sterilizations. During an interview with the Diane Rehm Show gave China as a model for how to handle growing populations. “We do have the example of China, and they've done it without, uh, draconian, as far as I can see, draconian steps," he said. Observers of the quote are surprised that Rehm let it go unchallenged and without any mention of the human rights abuses that accompany the Chinese family planning program."
- Chinese propaganda: exercising the right to reply [Telegraph] "he Telegraph came under fire this week in the Chinese government's English-language mouthpiece China Daily for using the word 'propaganda' when referring to the Chinese government's "mass patriotic education campaigns" in the run-up to the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic. In an article headlined 'Who is spinning the propaganda?', Patrick Whiteley, an Australian columnist for the paper, attacks The Telegraph for 'constantly labeling' Chinese government initiatives as propaganda. This is factually incorrect."
- China's Zhao decries June 4 tragedy from the grave [Reuters] "Two decades after his downfall and four years after his death, reformist Chinese leader Zhao Ziyang has broken the official silence on the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown, denouncing the killings of protesters as a "tragedy". In memoirs recorded secretly under house arrest, Zhao has challenged China's cautious, current leaders just before the 20th anniversary of June 4, when troops crushed pro-democracy protests centred on Tiananmen Square in Beijing."
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Read the first link. It appears if you get done for posting porn on the internet in China, the severity of the punishment depends on page views.