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Image of mass games in Pyongyang from wkenney.

We just came across a report about foreign inmates in a Shanghai prison taking the HSK test, commonly known as the Chinese TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language). Many of Shanghai's foreign prisoners are kept in Qingpu, which has now become the first prison in Shanghai, and probably China, where the foreign inmates are allowed to take Chinese classes and then participate in the test. This time around, the inmates that took the test hailed from countries such as Australia, Korea and Singapore.

Video clip from ttudou.com

The Chinese have always enjoyed a bit of schadenfreude at US President George W. Bush's expense, and the China Daily is no exception. Take a look at the picture above, the first of a series of movie posters that have been spoofed to illustrate the big news stories of 2005 (this one from the Jay Chou movie, Initial D (头文字D). Other news stories covered were the July 7 London bombings using the US television show 24 and the China's diplomatic efforts during the six-party talks with Stephen Chou's Kung-Fu Hustle. (Typical of China to use the only non-satirical spoof poster to toot its own horn). Shanghaiist also likes the second poster, which has Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Cuban President Fidel Castro, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Noam Chomsky. (Circle the one that doesn't belong in a group with the others.) Anyway, we don't get why they're bustin' W's balls. After all, he did get elected President of Iraq in the country's first free elections.