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Youtube remains blocked but nobody seems to care

So in the meanwhile, Youtube remains blocked. Shanghai blogger John Pasden of Sinosplice informs us that Youtube wasn't the only unlucky fella. Revver.com and Dailymotion.com also appear to be hit. And of course Google Video was never accessible in China to begin with, so that's a no-count.

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By Kenneth Tan in on October 23, 2007 1:20 PM

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Free Burma, YES, but is it right to blame Beijing?

So in the meanwhile, it's become kind of fashionable to blame Beijing for the mess in "Myanmar". Sure, Russia and India have gotten some of the blame for failing to rein in Burma's ruthless junta. ASEAN has also been put to shame for its impotence in handling Burma, and even Singapore's conservative Straits Times (subscription required) has begun to wonder aloud if it's not the right time to suspend Burma's membership in ASEAN, admitting that the "1997 Asean decision to admit Myanmar under the current military leadership without any conditionality was a mistake".

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By Kenneth Tan in on October 4, 2007 6:56 PM

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'Death Note' website shuts down; creepy Chinese youth seek new ways to be morbid

The novel tells the story of a teenage boy who receives a special notebook. Whenever he writes the name of an enemy in the book, along with a description of how and when that person dies, the enemy dies exactly as described.

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By Maureen O'Connor in , on July 22, 2007 4:48 PM

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Today's Links: Canada, chocolate and burning puppies


  • China is biggest espionage threat to Canada

    "Almost half of counter-espionage efforts in Canada target Chinese spies, the head of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service told a senate committee on Monday."



  • Songs, kisses and sweat on Labor Day of migrant workers

    "In the prosperous metropolis of Shanghai, migrant workers even joined in performances, singing and dancing and taking part in games to show their talents."



  • Hershey lures Asians with green tea Kisses

    "The century-old Hershey, synonymous with chocolate in the United States but relatively unknown abroad, must learn how to get products to shelves in countries where most shoppers buy from small family-owned grocers and street vendors."



  • FDA limits Chinese food additive imports

    "The Food and Drug Administration is enforcing a new import alert that greatly expands its curtailment of some food ingredients imported from China, authorizing border inspectors to detain ingredients used in everything from noodles to breakfast bars."



  • Underground sex parties rampant

    "A popular buzzword on the Internet these days is the Japanese phrase for 'orgy party' -- Google the term ranko party and you'll come up with hundreds of thousands of hits." NSFW.



  • Dog Rights VS Human Rights

    "An incident of burning dogs in the city of Nanjing drew nearly 17000 comments from web users on Thursday and triggered a huge debate about dog rights."



  • China Real Estate Laws, Part I

    "On March 16, 2007, China adopted a new Property Law, set to become effective on October 1, 2007. This post will be the first in a fairly long series of posts explaining China's real estate laws."



  • China's Stock Mania: The End is Near

    "The current stock market mania in China's mainland has as much in common with the Tulipmania of the 17th century, as it does with the Internet boom of the late 1990s."



  • "You Will Have To Die For Killing The Puppy!"

    "The dogs yelped in the middle of night and disturbed the sleeping humans. The problem can be solved by killing them."



  • Prison Break hero is coming to China

    "The Shanghai-based News Times reported Wentworth Miller as having been invited by Zhongbo Media Group, who have bought the rights from Fox to shoot an online video adaptation of the American hit TV drama."



  • Is China Slowly Poisoning the World?

    "It is probable that melamine is not the major or only culprit in the pet food illnesses and deaths. So then what exactly is causing the recent spate of pet illnesses and deaths?"



  • Something Stinks at 50 Moganshan Lu: It's the Artwork

    "One stroll through M50 leaves me marveling over Shanghai’s capacity to take a novel or original idea, and turn it into absolute crap."



  • China inaugurates 'world's tallest pagoda'

    "China has inaugurated what is believed to be the world's tallest pagoda, which at almost 154 metres reaches even higher than the Great Pyramid of Egypt, state media said today." It's in Changzhou, which we think is in Jiangsu.



  • China denies torturing Canadian

    "Canada's Foreign Minister Peter MacKay said he was assured by his Chinese counterpart Monday that a Canadian Muslim activist serving a life sentence in a Chinese jail for alleged terror links was not tortured."



  • China's children turn backs on proletariat: poll

    "Only one in a 1,000 children in China's financial hub want to grow up to be a common worker, once hailed as the vanguard of class struggle, a Communist Party newspaper said on Monday a day before the Labour Day holiday."



  • CHINA CYCLE 2007, leading bike show held in Shanghai

    "The 17th China International Bicycle & Motor Fair is scheduled on May 4-7, 2007 in Shanghai New International Expo Center. The theme of 2007 edition is 'Science makes dream come true, Innovation creates incentive'."



  • China bans trade in human organs

    "Any doctor found to be involved in such activities will have their licences revoked, while clinics or hospitals will be suspended from doing organ transplant operations for at least three years, it said."



  • School in China to Bear U.S. Law Firm's Name

    "Paul, Hastings, Janofsky &Walker is putting its stamp on China. Literally.The firm is paying at least $40,000 toward the construction of a facility in China's remote Longqui village that will soon bear its name: the Paul Hastings Hope Elementary School."



  • U.S. House members blast China

    "U.S. Congress members [criticized] Beijing's test of an anti-satellite weapon, its military buildup, its policy of forced abortion, its support of ruthless regimes, and its repatriation of North Korean refugees in violation of international law."



  • Passer-by shot in neck as police open fire on Macau protesters

    "The man, in his 50s, was reportedly hit in the neck by a bullet from a police warning shot as he rode a motorbike with his son 300 metres from the scene of the demonstrations Tuesday afternoon."



  • China's Alibaba to seek overseas IPO this year, website says

    "Alibaba, which is part-owned by Yahoo! Inc, plans to list its core business-to-business operation that helps match suppliers in China and elsewhere with purchasers over the Internet, the China Financial Online website said."



  • Asia struggles to stop relentless "pollution calendar"

    "After years of suffering, powerless 'victim' states have turned pollution forecasting into a fine art, setting up sophisticated systems to predict transnational pollution invasions."



  • Dr. Zhang explains table tennis styles

    "Dr. Zhang Xiaopeng, a leading researcher in world table tennis, explains the sport's playing styles ahead of the world table tennis championships."


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    By Dan Washburn in on May 2, 2007 6:03 PM

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    Extra! Extra! Asexual marriage, insecure billionaires, Bruce Lee

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    By Peijin Chen in on July 24, 2006 5:26 PM

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    Desperate millionaire in search of desperate girl (with light skin)

    Although it’s not first time for Shanghaiist to hear such an anecdote in China, we still wonder what’s the real motive behind the rosy advertisement? Do millionaires really expect a pure naïve girl who isn't trying to dig for gold after they flaunt how much they make a year in the advertisement? Or do they simply enjoy the feeling of having thousands of people chase after their millions?

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    By Zat Liu in on November 23, 2005 8:14 PM

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