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- Apple Daily strikes again - this time bringing us the CG video rendition of that off-duty cop who was killed by too much "ganbei" and declared a martyr by his boss. His boss has now been fired. [ESWN]
- Mark MacKinnon talks to Feng Zhenghu, the Shanghainese activist currently stuck in Narita Airport in Tokyo. [The Globe and Mail]
- The ongoing gangster trials in Chongqing have now extended to the gangsters' lawyers. One in particular, Li, allegedly demanded to be paid 20 to 30 million to help one man avoid a death sentence. [WSJ]
- Two Chinese reporters have gone all the way to Somalia to conduct what they call the first real interview with Somalian pirates. [ChinaSmack]
- World snooker champion Ding Junhui has donated 276 meat pies he was awarded for winning to his adopted home city of Sheffield. [Sports Yahoo]
- Xie Zhenhua, now China's chief negotiator in Copenhagen, had previously resigned from his position as head of the country's state environmental protection agency after an explosion at a PetroChina plant spilled chemicals into the Songhua River. [Bloomberg]
- Well, it looks like China's not the only e-waste receptacle in the world. Now North Korea is getting some of the stuff (from China) as well. [Shanghai Scrap]
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