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- China announces first panda from frozen sperm [ KOLD News 13] "For the first time, a giant panda cub has been born in China after being conceived using frozen sperm, officials announced Friday — an innovation scientists hope will help the endangered species avoid extinction. The new cub's birth Thursday means breeders will no longer be forced to rely on semen from China's few virile males, and may even be able to bring in sperm from zoos in San Diego, Mexico City or elsewhere."
- 'You're just a pawn' [The Standard] "Hong Kong must give way to Shanghai in the nation's financial development, according to a top Beijing official, who sees the SAR role as being reduced to that of a "pawn." Xia Bin, head of the Financial Research Institute, which comes under the State Council's Development Research Center, also said there may be a change in the role of the Hong Kong dollar by 2020. "Shanghai's financial market must eventually surpass that of Hong Kong's," Xia told the China Economic Times."
- Meet John Doe. No, Really! [NYTimes] "First he turned “Jang” into “John.” Then, he talked his family into adding an “e” to their last name. He was concerned, he said, about razzing and wanted to make sure it would be pronounced like the “do” in “tae kwon do” and not the “do” in “hairdo.” He has been John Doe ever since. Airport security grills him every time he flies. “I have to sit in the office,” he said. “Every time.” Landlords and election inspectors view him quizzically, and prospective dates need more than a little assurance that he’s not hiding a dark past. “I say my name is John Doe and they say, ‘No, what’s your real name?’ and I pull out my ID,” he said."
- Size of deadly protest exaggerated: official [China Daily] "A spokesman from the steel plant in Jilin province that was the scene of a deadly protest on Friday has denied reports that 30,000 workers were involved. Zhang Zhidong, spokesman for the Tonghua Iron and Steel Co, said it would be impossible for the protest, which culminated in the beating death of an executive, to have involved 30,000 people, as was reported by Reuters and AFP."
- China’s Anti-Blogging Strategy: Tell the Truth, and Fast [NAM] "Two seemingly unrelated but notable events took place on July 24th in China. In the morning, the official news agency Xinhua published an article titled "Ten Suggestions for Local Governments on How to Respond to Internet Opinion." In a commanding tone, the article argued that local governments should release information early, "reporting facts fast, reporting causes with caution." Crisis management is actually "crisis communication management," it asserted. It cites that the "open government information regulations" require "being open as the principle, not being open as an exception."… As if it were a test of the government's new media policy, that same day, violence erupted in Tonghua, Jilin."
- Chinese Workers Say Illness Is Real, Not Hysteria [NY Times] "As soon as the Jilin Connell Chemical Plant started production this spring, local hospitals began receiving stricken workers from the acrylic yarn factory 100 yards downwind from Connell’s exhaust stacks. On some days, doctors were overwhelmed and patients were put two to a bed. A clear case of chemical contamination? Not so, say Chinese health officials who contend that the episode is a communal outbreak of psychogenic illness, also called mass hysteria."
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No wonder West media forever ally with Chinese mobsters whenever trouble occured. But it surprised me that in this case of Tonghua Iron & Steel, AP and AFP just allied with communist state-owned firm full of "iron rice bowls" lazy-bones and accused the capitalist privatization the West always lecture China to do.
Shanghai to take over financial center role from HK? In light of Rio Tinto "incident" and other such "state secret" situations and clamps on free flow of information by Xinhua?
Let me give a standard Chinese retort: LOL ha ha he he LOL