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- Here's a 4-year-old girl who loves her beer [People's Daily Online] "A 4-year-old girl in Penglai, Shandong province, loves beer so much that she wants to have a glass of the alcoholic beverage with each meal. The toddler first tasted beer about a year back, and has since refused to eat if there wasn't a glassful beside her plate. Her careless parents are now desperately seeking help to get their daughter give up the habit."
- Kids Put The Heat On Police Exam Cheaters In China [CBS News] "Police officers contemplating cheating on promotion exams met their match this week in northwestern China _ 18 serious-faced fifth-graders walking the beat. The students were decked in blue and white school uniforms, and photos on the local government Web site showed them standing behind podiums and sauntering up and down aisles of various classrooms to monitor 265 police test-takers in Liangzhou county in Gansu province."
- Xu Zhiyong: Destined To Fight For Social Justice [China Digital Times] "It is very unusual for a human rights activist to be profiled by official media in China. The Economic Observer recently published a profile of Xu Zhiyong, a legal scholar and activist who relentlessly seeks social justice. Excerpts translated by CDT’s Linjun Fan."
- How To Avoid Getting Kidnapped In China [Forbes] "China Law Blog recently ran a chilling post about an executive who found himself held captive in a hotel until his company paid money it owed his kidnappers-even though his firm had declared bankruptcy. The article pointed out that holding executives until their companies pay up is not uncommon in developing countries; it advised that any business expecting to go into default get its foreign personnel out of the country first."
- Murder Bares Worker Anger Over China Industrial Reform [WSJ] "The fury unleashed in Tonghua has sparked an intense discussion in the Chinese media and among experts about how workers should be treated when control of companies changes hands. "This case rang a necessary alarm," says Li Xinchuang, vice chairman of China Metallurgical Industry Planning and Research Institute, a state think tank that helped draft the government's policy for the steel industry. Before the Tonghua riot, restructurings "were concerned only with benefits of local governments and companies," he says. "But the interests of employees should draw a lot more attention.""
- Let 1,000 Rural Banks Bloom in China [Forbes] "With 20 million unemployed migrant workers sent back home to rural villages worrying about how to fill their rice bowls day after day, China has an urgent need to channel more capital to its least developed areas to prevent the impoverished from taking their hatchets and hoes to vent their anger in riots. So the Chinese government is planning to increase the number of rural banks over tenfold to 1,027 by 2011."
- The Chinese car industry: The ambition of Geely [The Economist] "AT A time when most carmakers are struggling to cope with the worst crisis the industry has experienced in living memory, the ambitions of Geely, China’s biggest privately owned car firm, are breathtaking. The company is simultaneously developing six modern platforms—an astonishing number even for a global giant such as Toyota—and is committed to launching nine new cars in the next 18 months and up to 42 new models by 2015. Its technical director, Frank Zhao, claims that Geely will have the capacity to make 2m cars a year by then."
- China steps up fight against online porn [Xinhua] "China's ongoing war against Internet pornography and prostitution is to be ramped up, said the Ministry of Public Security Thursday. The crackdown during August and October will be conducted by nine government and Communist Party departments, involving police, publicity, health, information technology, banking, and radio, film and television. They will target porn websites which set up servers abroad and do business inside China, websites which organize pornographic performances and prostitution, as well as fake porn websites which cheat prospective subscribers."
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