Our round-up of some of last week's highlights from China's English-language blogosphere:
China Blog Parade: July 8-15, 2007
Extra! Extra! Suicides, toilets and banks
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Damn you, China Telecom!
China's internet thugs are are it again, this time attempting to block popular internet telephony services, namely Shanghaiist favorite Skype:
The DVD Killer: Coming to a theater near you
According to ChinaTechNews.com, Zhang Baoquan, president of real estate giant the Jindian Group has said his company will invest RMB 3 billion ($362 million) in the "coming years" to open 200,000 digital EVD theaters in China. Shanghai will be the testing grounds with eight to 25 -- kind of a big range -- EVD theaters. The China Film Corporation and Huaxia Film will also be involved, the three-sentence "story" said. Other published reports showed that something called the Polly Culture Group is part of the plan, as well.

