Results tagged “theus”

What's interesting is this: the headline says that there are at least one million female sex slaves in the US. And the first paragraph of the article goes on to say that these figures from the US Department of Justice (DOJ), which estimates that anywhere from 100,000-3 million underage people are somehow involved in prostitution in the US.

... There are no great or small rights but only democracy and totalitarianism. I say that in my vocabulary, there is no China versus outside but only justice versus injustice; there is no Chinese versus foreigners but only good versus evil. There is no inside or outside, no east or west. I will dedicate myself to pursue truth, goodness and beauty; I will oppose all that is false, evil and ugly. I will never compromise.

This Youku video shows some women offering old men massage hanky-panky, all out in the open in an unnamed city, for as low as RMB5! The world's oldest profession is alive and well in China, and it is everywhere.

As if Shanghai taxi drivers didn’t already have enough foolish foreigners to rip off, soon the most gullible of all tourists, cruise passengers, will be arriving. By the end of this year, a brand new cruise terminal will be opening at the northern end of the Bund. The US$260 million dollar site has been under construction since 2004 and is expected to hold up to three luxury cruise liners.

The US-based SCI FI Channel announced last week that George Clooney is producing a six-hour miniseries based on Neal Stephenson's best-selling 1995 novel The Diamond Age or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer. We have not read the book, but BoingBoing describes it like this: "The Diamond Age tells the story of a group of neo-Victorians who've embraced strait-laced ethics and craftsmanship as a response to the infinite possibilities of nanotechnology."

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Shanghaiist found itself out at the Qi Zhong Tennis Stadium yesterday, clutching a media pass for the final day of competition in the FINA 8th World Short Course Swimming Championships. Outside, the rain pelted down in sheets and the parking lots were awash with water. This seemed rather apt, considering that the organizers had taken the ATP Masters tennis court and turned it into a 25-metre pool. If only they'd turned the forlorn "Media Snacks Centre" into a Burger King.

Shanghaiist once visited Madame Tussauds in London after a big night of Theakston’s Old Peculier and, while sitting ashen-faced and stupefied in a chair, was mistaken for one of the exhibits by two elderly ladies. We’re not sure who they thought they were looking at, but it sure as hell wasn’t Brad Pitt.

The US top-level hand gesticulator, Donald Rumsfeld, is making the rounds in Beijing this week. Rumsfeld warned China that many in Washington are nervous about China's secretive modernization of its armed forces. Heeding Rumsfeld's word, China then invited Rummy to visit General Jing Zhiyuan's headquarters, where he apparently became the first foreigner ever to see a Chinese general's command post and sign a big empty guest book. Could this be a signal that General Jing's command center will be the newest stop for tour groups in Beijing?