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Today's Links: Big rogues, top jokes and child prostitution


  • Olympic Games will take place in Pékin and not in Beijing

    “The French have committees for everything. … After much discussion, the geographers and linguists of the CNT have decided that the rest of the world has it wrong. ‘Beijing’ must be spelled ‘Pékin’.”



  • China anti-graft Web site felled by “too many hits”

    “A Chinese government Web site encouraging citizens to report corruption crashed on its first day under the weight of too many hits. China’s National Bureau of Corruption Prevention … launched its official Web site (yfj.mos.gov.cn) on Tuesday.”



  • Totally Shanghai Magazine Website

    Has anyone heard of this magazine? And if they were going to choose to steal a website’s design, why would they choose That’s Shanghai’s?



  • Report: Apple, already looking at China, now in talks to launch Phone in Japan

    “Apple Inc. is negotiating with Japan’s top mobile phone carrier to launch the iPhone in Japan, though the cut of subscriber revenue that Apple wants has been a sticking point, according to a report published Tuesday.”

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    By Dan Washburn in on December 19, 2007 5:46 PM

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    Today's Links: Stocks, migrants and dancing gangs


  • Chinese man dies during gaming session

    "The 26-year-old man, surnamed Zhang from the city of Jinzhou, died Saturday after a marathon gaming session from what a doctor said was overwork and obesity."



  • Tom Online apologizes to The Beijing News for copyright violation

    "Tom Online apologized to The Beijing News for republishing articles from the paper without authorization between 2003 and 2006 and will provide compensation, Tom Online said in a statement."



  • China Confirms Human Case of Bird Flu

    "In the latest case, in coastal Fujian province, Xinhua said a 44-year-old farmer with the surname Li was diagnosed on Feb. 18 after he developed a fever and began coughing."



  • China stocks rebound 4 pct from Tuesday's plunge

    "China's main stock index, blamed for a global market sell-off, rebounded 4 percent on Wednesday and erased nearly half of the previous day's losses as investors saw no fundamental reason for the turmoil."



  • DiCaprio to join hollywood version of "Confession of Pain"

    "The Hollywood Reporter says that William Monahan, the screenwriter for "The Departed," is writing a script for the new film."



  • Taxi ad ban suggested for disturbing passengers

    "Tang said passengers pay fares for riding taxis rather than watching ads, and taxi companies earn money from these ads while passengers' fares are not reduced."



  • Gang arrested for sexy shows

    "Police said the dancers posed suggestively in almost transparent clothing and invited some audience members on stage with them."



  • City busts dancing porn ring in Pudong

    "Tickets of the show were not sold in public and the audiences were induced to buy tickets at 40 yuan (US$5.16) for each show. The ballroom staged six to eight half-hour shows every day. The audiences were mainly middle-aged and old men." Induced.



  • Fujian on high alert after human case of bird flu confirmed

    "Local markets for live fowls and processed fowl products have been suspended of trading since a new case of human infection of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu virus was found in Jian'ou, a city in east China's Fujian Province, late last month."



  • China's migrants face widespread abuse, report finds

    "China's migrant workers are becoming an "urban underclass," held down by economic exploitation and residency rules that deny them access to medical, housing and education benefits, Amnesty International said in a report released Thursday."



  • China May Fight England, U.S. to Host 2018 World Cup

    "You can already see what they did with the women's World Cup, they turned it into a great show,'' Blatter told reporters today in London. "But I'm not a prophet. I can't see where the World Cup is going.''



  • China seeks to slam brakes on bicycle thieves

    "People who provide the police with clues resulting in arrest of more than 15 bike pilferers and seizure of over 50 stolen bikes will, as of Wednesday, be awarded a maximum of 5,000 yuan ($625)," Xinhua news agency quoted Ma Weiya, an official with the Ministry of Public Security, as saying.



  • Shanghainese spend 14,762 yuan per capita

    "Shanghai citizens' living expenditures reached 14,762 yuan (US$1,905) per capita last year, growing 7.2 percent from a year earlier, the National Bureau of Statistics said yesterday."



  • China selloff shows rising global status

    "Even though it is difficult for foreign investors to penetrate the Chinese markets, there are still 295 stocks from the greater China region that trade on the New York Stock Exchange."


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    By Dan Washburn in on March 1, 2007 6:44 PM

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    140 Mistresses ... and other Shanghai scandal news

    The Telegraph, relying on reports out of Hong Kong, provides us with the latest news and gossip on the seemingly unstoppable Shanghai corruption scandal. Qiu Xiaohua, the implicated former head of China's National Bureau of Statistics who we told you about briefly last week, is said to have taken more than US$6.5 million out of Shanghai's pension fund and given it as a "gift" to his "secret mistress and their daughter." How did this generous offering come to light? It was "found recorded in a ledger kept by the head of the pension fund"! How's that for transparency?

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    By Dan Washburn in , on October 24, 2006 1:15 PM

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    Shanghai graft scandal keeps going and going and ...

    UPDATE: "Former head of China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) Qiu Xiaohua is suspected of involvement in the Shanghai social security fund fraud."

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    By Dan Washburn in on October 19, 2006 3:40 PM

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    The men who die in China's coal mines

    This photo gallery of Chinese coal miners really puts a face on the plight of these laborers. Unsafe work conditions kill them by the hundreds every year. Thirty black and white photos by a Chinese photographer, online monicker k6688, commemorates lives lost in a 2004 coal mine accident in Henan. k6688's photo blog is here (in Chinese).

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    By Zat Liu in on December 7, 2005 6:12 PM

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