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Yahoo China has taken a jibe at its arch-nemesis in the search arena, Baidu, with new banner ads featuring a bald big-bellied man peering out into the distance with a telescope and a tagline that says "If you can search only 100 degrees, you might as well search 360 degrees with Yahoo" (搜索只能搜100度，不如雅虎全能搜搜360度). Baidu's Chinese name 百度 means, literally, "100 degrees". According to this report at least, several webmasters have complained that their websites...
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Alibaba.com, China’s largest B2B commerce site is going public in Hong Kong in a few weeks. With the current frenzied market back drop, and Alibaba’s tremendous earning power (Goldman Sachs’ analyst pegs the site will earn a net profit of USD $83.8 million this year, up 186 percent from last year), the IPO will no doubt be a roaring success.
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"A massive 1.7 billion yuan (about 217 million U.S. dollars) of unwarranted school fees have been charged to unlucky parents since 2002, the top corruption watchdog said here on Thursday."
"Where Manchester’s worker dissidents of the early 1800s had the works of Percy Bysshe Shelley to urge them to 'rise like lions after slumber', China’s modern equivalents have World of Warcraft and dissident bloggers."
"The site and the deluge of complaints were sparked by last week's decision by regulatory authorities to classify a university student journal as 'indecent.'"
"Christian mission groups from around the world plan to quietly defy the Chinese ban on foreign missionaries and send thousands of volunteer evangelists to the 2008 Beijing Olympics." Another reason to avoid Beijing next year.
"Athletes staying in the Beijing Olympic village in 2008 can stretch out in beds 10 centimetres wider than those that were provided in Athens for the Summer Games, according to the Beijing News. But there won't be a lot to do in the room besides sleep."
"The new cocktail of iced green tea laced with Scotch -- or maybe the other way around -- seems to have taken off as China has become one of the top 10 consumers of Scotch."
"The 10 day holiday, priced from £1758 departs on the 3rd November 2007 and spends two days in Guilin which is the central backdrop to the epic Hollywood adaptation of the classic 1920’s Somerset Maugham love story." Ugh.
"Yahoo China, now China Yahoo, representatives have told local media that they changed the name to suit their localization strategy and improve each business department's marketing capability."
"Witnesses said two passengers including the victim surnamed Lu scrambled to get on the bus when it stopped near Jiangning Road and Wuding Road. The two men got into a fight and police were called in at 8am when Lu fell to the ground."
"Here's a set of photos from Moobol/Molive (a photojournalism website) showing a DIY car interior complete with laptop and GPS."
"A radio tower in Harbin City, China has installed a 700 foot swing. Swingers start at the peak of the tower, which is 1,100 feet off the ground. The tower is actually the world’s second highest steel tower ..." If by 'brave' you mean 'stupid'.
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"Drafting a new licensing rule for online magazines is on the agenda of China’s administration of press and publication, which will require online magazines to obtain license from the government before publishing, China Business News reported."
"To counter the trend, here's our list of Shanghai cafes that still keep the free wifi faith."
"Shanghai's efforts to build a city-wide taxi call center has suffered a body blow with the decision of Haibo, its biggest member company, to quit the 96965 hotline service, the Youth Daily reported today."
"Allowing street business on the two streets will not only affect tourists' impressions of the city but will also hamper traffic flow, the bureau said in a proposal about rules for street stalls, the Oriental Morning Post reported today. "
"The suspects range in age from 15 to 18 years old and all hail from Anhui Province, according to prosecutors. They allegedly couldn't find jobs in the city and decided to steal some money to return home."
"The ruling came amid U.S. pressure for Beijing to stop rampant copying of music and other goods."
"U.S. complaints to the WTO over commercial piracy in China will 'badly damage' cooperation, Vice Premier Wu Yi warned on Tuesday, insisting that China has made great strides in protecting patents and copyrights."
"China's chief censor has been been removed from his post, state media reported Tuesday, following an outcry this year over a reported decision to ban eight books."
"A Chinese college has introduced fingerprint scanners to stop students playing truant ... Meiya College of International Studies at Hunan University spent 250,000 yuan (16,000 pounds) last year to install the scanners in each of its 30-plus classrooms."
"Chinese authorities acknowledge the safety problem and have promised repeatedly to fix it, but the disasters keep coming."
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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?)
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