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- Adam Minter discovers “belt tongues” that help disable your car's seatbelt alarm without you needing to put on your seatbelt. Jeez, it's like people want to die in a traffic accident here or something. [Shanghai Scrap]
- The heaviest snowfall in at least 54 years just hit Beijing, causing tens of thousands of people to be stranded on highways linking the city with Shanxi, Hebei, Liaoning and Inner Mongolia. Tragically, the snow also caused a primary school cafeteria's roof to collapse in Hebei, killing three children and injuring 28 others. [Bloomberg]
- An international human rights group is urging China to abolish its secretive “black jails,” a cottage industry created to keep petitioners from ever reaching their final destinations. They tend to become the most crowded at politically sensitive times... like, most likely, the upcoming President Obama visit. [Reuters]
- Over 41% of people in the Pearl River Delta have been made sick by the region's heavy pollution, developing symptoms such as coughs, sore throat, upper respiratory infections, depression and insomnia. [People's Daily Online]
- China Media Project talks of the two warning bells that harangued journalists this time around on Chinese Journalist Day. One: recent troubles at Caijing, and two: a speech by politburo member Li Changchun which “avoided all pretense of caring about the public's “right to know.” [China Media Project]
- Made curious about Lu Guang after seeing his “Pollution in China” photo project, which detailed families, farmers, industrial districts, and everything else affected by pollution across this country? Netease interviewed him. And ChinaHush translated. [ChinaHush]
- Is China's economic miracle nothing but a paper dragon? Three China bears argue that the country has dangerously overheated their economy by building and spending too much on things that there is actually no demand for... and we might soon see this bubble burst. [Politico]
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