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Taiwan justice minister resigns over death penaltyTaiwan News

http://news.bbc.co.uk

Does this sound familiar?

President Ma Ying-jeou: "death sentences had to be 'carried out according to the law'."

Taiwanese actress Pai Ping-ping: "Ms. Wang has deeply hurt Taiwanese people's feelings."

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BBC need not concern itself about Chinese aid to Sri LankaChina News

http://www.lankaweb.com

Sri Lanka is currently a hotbed of espionage; the place is teeming with US, British, Australian and Israeli spies operating, almost at will, under cover as journalists, aid workers, tourists and people with various business interests.

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Heiney
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Dalai Lama: China Aims to Annihilate BuddhismGeneral

http://news.yahoo.com

The Dalai Lama lashed out at China on Wednesday, accusing it of trying to "annihilate Buddhism" in Tibet and rebuffing all his efforts to reach a compromise over the disputed Himalayan region.

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The China BubbleGeneral

http://www.forbes.com The China Bubble

China's economy is humming along in high gear, thanks to a fast-growing pile of dicey debt. Such booms tend to end badly.

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ndmagxian
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3 days 10 hours ago Made popular 17 hours 3 min ago
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Contracts? Just a start..Warnings

http://newdynasty.com.cn Contracts? Just a start..

No matter how long I’m here, this will always be one of the things that I just can not stand. Maybe I am just too American. Maybe it is just that I hate negotiating the same thing over and over again, but I just hate this part of doing business in China.

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ndmagxian
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2 days 17 hours ago Made popular 17 hours 10 min ago
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China's oil demand increase 'astonishing', says IEAChina Environment

http://news.bbc.co.uk

China's demand for oil jumped by an 'astonishing' 28% in January compared with the same month a year earlier, the International Energy Agency (IEA) says.

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warped0ne
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2 days 1 hour ago Made popular 17 hours 12 min ago
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Sex in China – Top 10 reasons not to visit a prostituteChina Business

http://www.asiahealthcareblog.com Sex in China – Top 10 reasons not to visit a prostitute

There’s an awful lot of common sense reasons not to frequent prostitutes while going abroad. There’s quite a few more not to do it in a place where you don’t speak English. We just happened to be most knowledgeable about why one should not to do it while in China. Here is our top 10. Added suggestions are welcome.

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Damjan_D
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China. Do The Walls Have Ears?General

http://www.chinalawblog.com China. Do The Walls Have Ears?

I am convinced about 99.9% of all emails go through. But the way I interpret that is that at least one email I send per day will not reach its destination. If I do not hear back from someone rather quickly, I just assume they did not get my email and so I send it again. In other words, I assume the worst.

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ndmagxian
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2 days 16 hours ago Made popular 1 day 18 hours ago
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Eleven tigers starve to death at China zoo - mediaChina News

http://in.reuters.com

At least 11 tigers have died of hunger and malnutrition in a Chinese zoo so far this year, the Year of the Tiger in the lunar calendar, local media reported on Thursday. [...] The tigers, all from the Shenyang Iceberg Animal Zoo in Liaoning, northeast China, were confined in very small and wet cages.

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Heiney
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3 days 10 hours ago Made popular 2 days 7 hours ago
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Google Street View now live in Hong KongHong Kong News

http://thedarkside.hk Google Street View now live in Hong Kong

One of the worlds most amazing cities is now live on Google street view. Enjoy :)

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China orders reporters trained in Marxist theoryGeneral

http://www.ctv.ca China orders reporters trained in Marxist theory

China will toughen requirements for reporters by launching a new certification system that requires training in Marxist and communist theories of news, a media official said, citing problems with the current crop of mainland journalists.

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China's Bubble TroubleGeneral

http://www.realclearpolitics.com China's Bubble Trouble

The bubbly enthusiasm that many analysts express about the Chinese economy reminds me of the old-time variety show host Lawrence Welk, who banished worries each week with soothing sounds from his "Champagne Music Makers."

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ndmagxian
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3 days 10 hours ago Made popular 2 days 21 hours ago
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A European Crisis, Not A China Slow Down, Will Trigger A Global CollapseGeneral

http://www.businessinsider.com A European Crisis, Not A China Slow Down, Will Trigger A Global Collapse

Here's a curve ball for 2010 -- while everyone was fretting about China's freight train economy derailing, Europe could be the trigger for a reversal of the current global economic rebound.

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ndmagxian
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North Korea: China's Newest Full-Service Bona Fide Fully-Fledged ColonyChina News

http://www.adamdanielmezei.com

Does North Korea Make for Good Chinese Colonial Turf?

Rather than express my knee-jerk personal opinion – as in, who wouldn’t want to see the dismantling of the Kim Farm (i.e. DPRK) and its associated tyrannical structures and edifices – let’s enumerate the facts for y’all so that we can decide together, objectively-like.

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Chinese Professor Nabbed For Making Illegal DrugsChina News

http://www.bernama.com

SEOUL, March 10 (Bernama) -- Police has arrested a Chinese chemistry professor on charges of mass-producing narcotics at his lab and attempting to sell them online, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported Wednesday, citing officials as saying here.

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Heiney
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Bad Branding in China: Swissotel becomes Swish HotelChina Travel

http://daliandalian.com

After a prolonged court case with the Swissotel Group, the Swiss Hotel in Dalian has renamed itself 'Swish' Hotel, and in the process exposed a lot of what's wrong with branding in China, and being international in general: smaller Chinese companies are not good at internationalising, even when they have a running start.

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Nigerian sentenced to death for drug dealingGeneral

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn Nigerian sentenced to death for drug dealing

SHENZHEN: A Nigerian man received the death penalty Tuesday in Dongguan, Guangdong province, after being convicted of drug trafficking. Experts say it is the first case in the southern manufacturing city in which a foreigner has received a death sentence for drug trafficking. His sentence was handed down from the Guangdong Higher People's Court.

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China, The IntangibleChina News

http://www.theage.com.au China, The Intangible

From The Age: 'Barely a week goes by without another... reminder of the gap between the supply and demand of credible information and analysis on China. The information deficit is partly due to China's failure to improve the transparency and credibility of its statistics in line with the growth of its economy.

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China "Expects" Further Unrest in XinjiangChina News

http://www.todayonline.com

Last week a senior leader said that Xinjiang was stable. Now the province's highest Uyghur official claims otherwise while in Beijing for the National People's Congress. Who's right?

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Bo Xilai, China's most charismatic politician, makes a bid for powerGeneral

http://www.independent.co.uk Bo Xilai, China's most charismatic politician, makes a bid for power

The tall, dapper and smiling Chinese leader looked presidential as he pulled up at the front entrance of the Great Hall of the People, waving photographers and waiting reporters away. Senior members of the Politburo never enter through the front door. But this is Bo Xilai.

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6 days 17 hours ago Made popular 3 days 21 hours ago