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- Bruce Lee's siblings authorize Chinese biopics [AP] "Bruce Lee's older sister and younger brother have authorized a Chinese company to make a series of biographical films about the late kung fu icon, saying they want to produce a historically accurate account of their brother's life. Phoebe Lee and Robert Lee appeared at a signing ceremony with J.A. Media in Beijing on Monday, 36 years to the day after Bruce Lee died in Hong Kong at age 32 from swelling of the brain."
- Chinese News Sites Go Down After Reports on Gov't Scandal [IDG News Service] "Two of China's most popular technology news Web sites went offline Tuesday after carrying news reports that linked the son of China's president to a corrupt African deal. The technology news sections disappeared for several hours from major Chinese portals Sina.com.cn and NetEase.com early Tuesday afternoon, when they started redirecting viewers to general news pages. Both tech sections had carried reports on a state-owned company accused of bribing Namibian officials in the last day, but those reports were missing when the Web pages reappeared."
- A Verdict in China Faces Court of Public Opinion [WSJ] "A local court Monday meted out a three-year prison sentence for Hu Bin, the 20-year-old Hangzhou college student whose reckless driving and reported lack of remorse incited outrage on Chinese Internet portals back in early May. Prosecutors elected to charge Mr. Hu with vehicular manslaughter... rather than “endangering public security,” a much more serious crime punishable by death. The three-year sentence was met by general cynicism (in Chinese) on one of China’s main Internet portals, with many anonymous postings claiming that justice had been bought rather than served."
- Unraveling how children become bilingual so easily [AP] "The best time to learn a foreign language: Between birth and age 7. Missed that window? New research is showing just how children's brains can become bilingual so easily, findings that scientists hope eventually could help the rest of us learn a new language a bit easier."
- It only matters what the machine thinks: getting diagnosed in a Chinese hospital [Danwei] "On July 20 The Beijing News printed a reader comment about the kind of medical service they received when they paid a visit to the ophthalmologist. The reader complained that the traditional ideas for diagnosis had been replaced by slips of paper that told you go get tested by a machine. One day after the letter appeared, the same paper ran another reader response: from a man whose wife had an urinary infection, and was told to have scans that an older doctor said were unnecessary. Both readers reflected upon often youthful doctors who don't ask many questions and does not really know how to diagnose."
- “Manufacturing” Abandoned Infants [Research-China] "Western readers unfortunately were only given abbreviated and redacted versions of the original news story, “Manufacturing” Abandoned Infants", that appeared July 1, 2009 in the Guangdong Newspaper "Southern Metropolis News". Research-China.Org has decided to present an English translation for interested readers. One will find the original story more detailed and compelling than later recountings."
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Now to be fair to Honoriffic Leader Hu's son, when was the last time you've ever read about a business venture by a Princeling gone bad??