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Extra! Extra! Seatbelt foilers, snowfall in Beijing, and Pearl River residents sickened by pollution

Extra! Extra! Seatbelt foilers, snowfall in Beijing, and Pearl River residents sickened by pollution

  • Adam Minter discovers “belt tongues” that help disable your car's seatbelt alarm without you needing to put on your seatbelt. Jeez, it's like people want to die in a traffic accident here or something. [Shanghai Scrap]
  • The heaviest snowfall in at least 54 years just hit Beijing, causing tens of thousands of people to be stranded on highways linking the city with Shanxi, Hebei, Liaoning and Inner Mongolia. Tragically, the snow also caused a primary school cafeteria's roof to collapse in Hebei, killing three children and injuring 28 others. [Bloomberg]
  • An international human rights group is urging China to abolish its secretive “black jails,” a cottage industry created to keep petitioners from ever reaching their final destinations. They tend to become the most crowded at politically sensitive times... like, most likely, the upcoming President Obama visit. [Reuters]

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By Elaine Chow in on November 12, 2009 6:30 PM

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So long and thanks for all the fish

The Yangtze River just can't seem to cut a break these days. Earlier this year we reported that the river was in its death throes and now it's being hit by droughts. This week the Yangtze River hit a 142-year record low, a plight expected to have some serious environmental and economic repercussion, particularly in our humble delta region.

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By Derek Sandhaus in on January 18, 2008 3:00 AM

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First there were cyborg-pigeons, now meet the flame-resistant kestrels

New Scientist recently reported on a record-breaking feat of a particular bird-of-prey population near Beijing. This news isn't something to celebrate, rather something quite worrisome. Researchers discovered that kestrels had record-breaking amounts of a PDBE chemical known as Deca in their tissues.

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By Tim Beckenham in , on March 3, 2007 5:24 PM

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Today's Links: PVG WiFi, Chiang Kai-shek and Jews


  • Chinese survey finds religion booming

    "Professors at East China Normal University estimated that about 300 million people - equivalent to more than 30% of the adult population - followed Buddhist, Taoist, Christian, Muslim or other beliefs."



  • YouTube - Baidu Movie

    "Baidu's movie relased before its landing on Nasdaq."



  • YouTube - baidu vs google

    "'Baidu PK Google, what will happen?"



  • List of Officials Who Kill Others or Themselves

    "Here is an unusal list of Chinese officials who are involved in muder or suicide cases, via Yulun Jiandu (translated by CDT)."



  • Another piece on the Shanghai saga

    "Really not much new in this story except for who got burned, which is very interesting. This list includes Saks, Disney, and Citibank. I think the only person who will really get into trouble is Vincent Lo."



  • Chinese Film Cleared for Berlin Festival

    "Authorities have approved a Chinese film about a massage parlor boss and one of his workers to compete at the Berlin International Film Festival after five revisions, the movie's producer said."



  • Taiwan revisits Chiang Kai-shek

    "Taiwan removed Chiang Kai Shek's statue from its military police headquarters, angering the Kuomingtang Party. Chiang's legacy of oppression and violence is being re-examined."



  • Racism row mars Hong Kong literary festival

    "With accusations of racism swirling around its board of directors, the sacking of its charismatic frontman and writers taking sides, the row has convulsed Asia's normally sedate literary scene."



  • Father convicted for forcing children to exercise

    "He then beat his son with a ruler for failing to conform to his daily exercise routine. ... He claimed he devised the exercise regimen as a means of 'family fun' and told the court it was for the good of the boy's health."



  • More unsafe products in China

    "China’s quality supervision bureau has suspended operations of two domestic cosmetic firms and halted sales of six of their lipsticks because they contained the industrial and cancer-causing Sudan I, II and IV dyes."



  • Shanghai Grand Mercure Going Chinese Five-Star

    "With a location near Duolun Road, you can shop for antiques and handicrafts when you get sick of swimming or dancing in the column-free ballroom. ... And it's probably bes to wait until it really turns 5-star."



  • China shuts Shanghai hospital over irregularities

    "Authorities revoked the licence of the Shanghai Consonancy Hospital after finding it had breached rules on medical treatment, equipment sterilisation and waste management, the reports said."



  • Reports: Shanghai bank bails out pension fund borrowers, amid calls for more transparency

    "Companies are turning to banks for loans to repay money borrowed from a Shanghai pension fund, reports said Wednesday, as city government advisers called for more public information to be released regarding a corruption probe linked to those loans."



  • Corruption crackdown targets Shanghai Inc.

    "The fall of Mr. Chen, who not only ran the city but sat in China's ruling Politburo, was China's biggest political shakeup in a generation. But more than the ouster of one official, it amounted to an indictment of the business model known as Shanghai Inc."



  • Shanghai may run out of water in a generation, climate change expert warns

    "Water shortages in China are reaching "incredible" proportions, a British environmental expert said Monday night, citing Shanghai as a particularly vulnerable location unless drastic action is taken quickly."



  • We have met the bathroom enemy and they are us

    "K. Wah Center has some idiosyncrasies, including apparently being named after some kind of hip-hop infant. Among these are the world's shrillest elevators."



  • Pudong airport WiFi

    "Sitting in the lounge at Pudong airport now, with free wifi. Just find the tp-link wifi connection and enter password tp-link. Always a good feeling when you can check an reply all your mails before boarding."



  • Xi'an To Become "Wi-Fi City"

    "Shaanxi Jialong Science and Technology subsidiary ALONG Mobile Technologies announced that it will deploy over 1,000 Wi-Fi hotspots in Xi'an this year and plans to develop Xi'an into a 'Wi-Fi City', reports 163.com."



  • China unblocks Taiwan newspaper Web sites

    "Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council said that users in the populous Pearl River Delta and other parts of China over the past two weeks had accessed previously blocked Web sites run by the China Times (news.chinatimes.com) and the and the United Daily News (http://udn.com/NEWS/)"



  • Villages to get broadband connections

    "Rural villages in Shanghai will be connected to the city's broadband Internet network within two years, Shanghai Telecom said yesterday."



  • Sold on a Stereotype

    "In China, a genre of self-help books purports to tell the secrets of making money 'the Jewish way.'"



  • China: why it is so difficult to get train ticket?

    "As the lunar new year is approaching, the spring travel started. The central government announced earlier that the train ticket’s price will remain the same. However, most of the tickets fall into the pocket of various ticket agents, and they sell the tickets to the black marketeers."



  • Internet Boom in China Is Built on Virtual Fun

    "No other Internet company in the world — not even Google — has achieved the kind of dominance in its home market that Tencent commands in China."


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    By Dan Washburn in on February 8, 2007 6:35 PM

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    Hot off the commuter press

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    By Micah Sittig in , on June 20, 2006 3:26 PM

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