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In this video Al Jazeera reports on two elderly Beijing residents who tried to organize protests against evictions in the capital. For these women, who are both in their 70s, this has had far reaching consequences.

Photo from Ryan Pollack

We were surprised to read from the China Briefing blog that ShanghaiExpat.com has been reported to the Chinese Network Security Police:

The social expatriate website Shanghaiexpat.com has had a legal case against it lodged with the network security division of the Public Security Bureau in Shanghai for libel and ‘disrupting social harmony’ it has been reported today. The site, which last year celebrated its fifth anniversary, has proved popular with local expatriates yet has consistently drawn criticism for its generally negative online forums and it’s sometime racist portrayal of Chinese nationals and the general living environment in China, it has been alleged.

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We had a good laugh when we saw this "patriotic" banner by Chinese blogger Xiucai ("秀才") which reads: "Joyfully welcome the 17th Party Congress, building a harmonious society together. Xiucai is a good comrade. This site has temporarily shut down comments and forum features." [h/t to Rebecca Mackinnon]

No, this is actually the Summer Palace in Beijing! But that hasn't stopped two laowai's from stripping down to their birthday suits five days ago and enjoying the last of the summer sun in Yihe Yuan (颐和园 or the Garden of Health and Harmony) -- oblivious to the curious stares of the tourists around them. Unfortunately, all good things, as they say, must come to an end. It was not long before some friendly neighbourhood Public Security Bureau guys came and escorted them away.

We love all these wonderful submissions that people are sending in to Youku. This pickpocket on Bus #2 in Fuzhou was caught in action and beaten up on the bus (though not very savagely). It remains unclear whether the guy beating him up was the victim or the bus driver (pretty unlikely). We can't quite hear or understand what is being said, although we think the poor pickpocket sure had an unlucky day! Some comments on the video found on Youku:

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What’s with all the Wangs? That is the question that is stumping the Chinese Government. For well over a billion Chinese people, only 100 surnames are used by some 85 percent of the population, not to mention the fact that many of these names are homonyms. What’s the solution? Well, according to a proposed law, two surnames.

Many of you might have read our post regarding the horrible mass-slaughter of dogs in August. Sadly, it seems we could be experiencing the third wave of the canine cull, based on this Economic Daily report (in Chinese) that says five major cities, including Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Guangzhou and Wuhan are going to address "dog problems".

When we posted just a short while ago about Yahoo China's becoming a community portal we didn't really know what this meant ... but now we have a better idea because we were just surfing Mop.com (猫扑), a website which claims to be China's first or number one interactive entertainment portal. In any case, while there we read about how Shanghai's finest plan on creating a system for monitoring migrant populations in Shanghai. Basically, non-Shanghai people (and by this they mostly mean migrant workers) are going to be registered in a new system that will allow them to know how many people are living in an apartment, even how many people are living in each room. (He meant this figuratively, right?)

OK, so it's a bit difficult to type like Elmer Fudd, but you can always find inspiration by trying Google in Elmer Fudd language.

Imagine Team America fights with Team China -- what would that be like? This Sino-America Police Sanshou Championship (中美警察自由搏击大赛) may offer us some answers. (Sanshou is a kind of hand-to-hand combat developed by the People's Liberation Army in the 1960s. For more info, go here.) According to the website of The Ministry of Public Security of People’s Republic of China (in Chinese), this championship, organized byMinistry of Public Security and Public Security Office of Hunan Province, is divided into seven classifications, two of which are for ass-kicking females.

Do you remember where you were on June 17, 1994 -- the day that O.J. Simpson was involved in one of the greatest high-speed (or was it low-speed?) car chases of all time? We're sure that most of you Americans out there do -- and what better way to celebrate this historic event than with a bonded nickel souvenir statue? More to the point: The Olympics are only two years away, and the Beijing cops are undergoing all kinds of special training for this event, much of it which involves possible high-speed chase scenarios:

The Guardian today reports on another riot in rural China:

After reports of 121 skulls being found in a remote ravine on the border of Qinghai and Gansu provinces, western China was already starting to look a little creepy, even if the skulls may have actually been a part of a Tibetan Buddhist ritual, as the unlinkable South China Morning Post reports:

And here's the kicker: The tops of their skulls were sawed off. Forensics experts are now trying to determine whether they are human or monkey skulls, but the unlinkable South China Morning Post story makes it seem like there is little doubt that these skulls are human, and that these humans died not too long ago.

This is a couple weeks old, but we just learned of it today. Thank God we managed to refrain from SMSing porn this month:

Not even 24 hours into 2006 and Shanghai had once again come up with something new: The country's first police museum. Shanghaiist would not have bothered reading this Shanghai Daily article had it not been for the pun-alicious headline: "Police Museum Drops Charges". Well, if you're more clever than Shanghaiist (and we'll give you the benefit of the doubt there) then you will have figured out that admission to this museum will be free for the first three days of January. Oh, shit. Only one day left folks. Take your kids to see the 10,000 "relics" of the foundation and development of the Shanghai police. And for all of you foreigners out there, check out your ol' buddies at the part of the museum dedicated to the friendly folks at the Entry-Exit Bureau.

Over the past two days, Shanghaiist spent time exploring Shanghai’s New Jiangwan City SMP Skate Park. A two-day event hosted the world’s elite skateboarders, inline skaters, BMX freestyle and motocross riders (Shanghaiist is not one of the elite ... yet). The SMP Gravity Games Showdown incorporated vertical ramp and street competitions -- held on each day.

Interfax is reporting that starting Sept. 1, all mobile phone and Xiaolingtong subscribers in Shanghai will have to register their numbers with their legal names. This directive from the Shanghai Communications Administration and the Shanghai Public Security Bureau extends to all current and future customers. All SIM cards purchased after Sept. 1 will require real-name registration and all pre-existing subscribers will be given three months to add names to their accounts at designated locations across the city. Users who fail to register will face "serious consequences," said Hu Yonglong, Vice Director of the Shanghai Communications Administration.