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"If you can’t find a taxi driver whose political views match those of your readers, then just make one up. Call him Mr. Wang, inform your public that he only earns a hundred dollars a month, and they’ll believe any old crap you write."

"Focus instead on the fact that every time Jay Yang has taken charge of Yahoo!'s China strategy in the past, the results have been, well, considerably less than stellar."

"The meeting, chaired by Premier Wen Jiabao, decided to cover all needy people in rural areas across the country under the allowance program, including the aged, the disabled and those who are unable to work."

"With visions of the New York Stock Exchange dancing in our heads, many of us expected the Shanghai exchange to be an exciting place to visit and observe live trading. But when we were shown into the large on-site trading room ... it was eerily silent."

"In one of the most notable trade deals of the Bush administration, U.S. airlines got the OK Wednesday to ramp up service to China in unprecedented levels... The number of daily passenger flights between the US and China will more than double by 2012."

"News Corporation's Chinese version of its social networking site (SNS) MySpace China (Myspace.cn) recently spent one million Yuan to sign the Back Dorm Boys as spokesmen for the website, reports Donews quoting a rumor."

"Asian markets were marginally in red today morning led by China's Shanghai index following a warning from the former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan that the gains in the Chinese market were unsustainable."

"Chinese portal Sina.com, which has one of the "good," officially sanctioned video clip websites, is now holding a massive video blog 播客 contest which will end on July 15th."

"Shanghai's international motor racing circuit said yesterday that it will open the track for the first time to private cars for free on June 9 and June 10. But the test driving will be limited to Volkswagen sedan owners."

"Asia's tallest clock tower will fall silent from June 1 while it undergoes a four-month renovation program, the first comprehensive face-lift it has had since it first began to chime eight decades ago." Custom's House.

"The car ... caught the attention of police when it was doing 186 km per hour on the expressway at 10am. When it passed a charge window at the Nanxun exit in Zhejiang Province, data showed the car spent only 19 min to cover 84 km."

"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 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."

"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'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."

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

"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."

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

"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.

"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 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."

"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.''

"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.

"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."

"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."