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- Building of dams goes on despite halt order [SCMP] Construction had continued on two highly controversial hydro dams on the Yangtze River in Yunnan province , despite orders from the mainland's top environmental watchdog for the projects to be abandoned, state television reports. The two dams are being built by power giants China Huaneng Group and China Huadian Group, which together produced a fifth of the mainland's electricity last year.
- Peking Opera troupes take bold steps to be profitable [China Daily] "The China National Peking Opera Company, China's top operatic troupe, entrusted Beijing Guoyishengping Culture Development Co, Ltd to manage the theater and make it commercially viable one and a half years ago. Zhang Delin and his wife Yu, a famous BTV anchorwoman, own the Beijing Guoyishengping. That move marked a turnaround for the State-owned firm used to government funding to run its operations. An opera ticket at the theater is priced between 2,080 yuan to 50 yuan."
- Study: Beijing's air worse than at past Olympics [Associated Press] "Beijing's notoriously dirty air was cleaner during last summer's Olympic games, but pollution levels were still much worse than at recent Olympics, despite a massive Chinese cleanup campaign, a new report said."
- Is Google Being Evil in China? [Lost Laowai] "From the CIIRC’s condemnation, the situation escalated quickly this week, with the Chinese government clearly unleashing the hounds on Google, with all national media - which are, with no exceptions, state-controlled - running the story of how Google is polluting China’s youth with its lewd search suggestions and pornographic links to foreign websites. Thus, Google has been bashed by national and local TV and newspapers for three solid days."
- Tens of thousands of Chinese fight the police in Shishou [Telegraph] "Tens of thousands of rioters torched a hotel and overturned police cars, after the authorities allegedly tried to cover up the murder of a 24-year-old man as a suicide. The deceased, Tu Yuangao, was the chef of the Yong Long hotel. According to the cops, he committed suicide by jumping off the roof of the building and left a note. Witnesses said there was no blood on the scene and Tu's body was already cold just after it hit the ground. His parents were surprised at the suicide note, since he was allegedly illiterate."
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The PLA is now an attractive option, since China jacked up the salaries and perks for the PLA. IUn the past, poor pay and equipment deteered many qualified from joining. Now there are even stories of parents bribing to get their kids in. LOL! Yes, PLA need a lot of college graduates for their officer corps. You also need the tech-savvy young grads to lead and run the PLA's increasingly sophisticated weapon systems.
PLA units are paid very unequally, the HK garrison is the best equipped, best trained and by far the best paid unit, however, they get very little liberty to keep their thoughts pure for killing uppity Honkies and the armed and SWAT equipped HK police.
Units near Korea, the Taiwan Strait and spec op units near India get decent pay and training, but the units in the interior still get shit everything, just a bunch of knucklehead villagers. And girls still don't want PLA guys.
PLAP!
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