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Ho ho! Juicy! A Guangxi official was suspended from duties because his porn-filled sex diaries got leaked. And one person has graciously translated some excerpts for us. [Veggie Discourse]
Thirteen Chinese newspapers have jointly appealed for social reform, attacking the hukou system as outdated and unfair. Though their editorials were quickly scrubbed away, this is unprecedented. [Guardian]
Sure, Facebook's blocked here - but that hasn't stopped social game developers in this country from courting it. [Inside Facebook]

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Boy Killed Anally When Office Chair Explodes [Gizmodo] "Well, stories don't get much worse than this. A 14-year-old boy in China was killed when his chair exploded, sending chunks of metal into his rectum. The bleeding this caused killed him."
Is anything made in the U.S.A. anymore? You'd be surprised [International Herald Tribune] "The United States remains by far the world's leading manufacturer by value of goods produced. It hit a record $1.6 trillion in 2007 - nearly double the $811 billion of 1987. For every $1 of value produced in China factories, the United States generates $2.50. So what is made in the U.S.A. these days?"
More than 20 dead in N China coal mine accident [Xinhua] "The accident occurred at about 2: 00 a.m. Sunday at the Tunlan Coal Mine of Shanxi Coking Coal Group in Gujiao City near Taiyuan, the provincial capital, when 436 miners were working underground."

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Extra! Extra! Sex diaries, newspaper protests and Akio Toyoda apologizes to China