Xili Bro is with his family finally, after 0ver 10 years of separation. Gone is the days when he has to drift on the streets, feeding from foods in garbage, and more importantly being teased as amusement. This post is a throughout introduction about this seek-after figure on Chinese Internet.
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(Reuters) - Sweden has sentenced a Uighur man to a year and four months in prison for spying on a community of Uighur refugees and passing information to agents for the Chinese state, a court document showed Monday.
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China will prosecute 23 people for a blaze at its new state television headquarters that engulfed a hotel, killed a fireman and left a 24-million-dollar clean-up bill, a court official said Tuesday. An official at Beijing Number Two Intermediate Court confirmed 23 people had been charged in the incident, but said the hearings had not yet begun.
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I just tried out Zuosa today. In many ways it is a Twitter-clone. The idea, design and even the colors are much alike, but like any good clone, it has grown apart from the original in many ways. Here are some things that are different:
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The Ministry of Public Security in China has launched a six-month campaign to clampdown on online poker and gambling according to China Daily.
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This is an interview with Jim Rogers about opportunities in China and his free-market financial philosophy.
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The honesty I found very funny. If I told someone here that they are going to get fat, they might hit me. In fact, Zhifang tells me often that she is fat. She tells me about different friends that are also fat. Its not that she is trying to be rude. It seems in China, that if you are over weight, you should already know this. It is more a matter of fact.
read more »China's Tengzhong said Thursday it withdrew its offer to acquire the iconic Hummer brand from General Motors because it could not obtain regulatory approval from Chinese authorities, reported AFP.
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When Chinese farmer Ding Guangyan married his fiancee last year, local officials quickly seized on the event's propaganda value. Mr Ding had only just arrived in the area after being forced to move with his family to make way for a massive engineering scheme.
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The ability to wage war on credit gave the West an insurmountable advantage over the East. The West’s credit, however, has now turned to debt and the West has lost its advantage. But the return to parity will not be easy. The three hundred year economic expansion fueled by debt-based capital markets is coming to an end and with it, the hegemony of the West over the East.
read more »Over the past couple of years we've written a lot about China and its seemingly endless stream of skyscrapers that are sprouting up. There's plenty of growth there, industrialisation is happening, the population is moving from the countryside to the city but is that all? What else is behind China's skyscraper boom?
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Until just over a year ago, Gong Kangshun spent much of his life trekking over the mountains around his remote village in south-west China. It isn't easy to make a living in Xiuxi, a tiny settlement of 58 families deep in Aba county, Sichuan. Gong grows crops on a small plot and sells rare fungi found on the steep slopes nearby.
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Kill tally: At least 3,000 killed in experiments at the Unit 731 biological weapons facility. Approximately 200,000 killed in field tests of biological weapons. Between 20,000 to 30,000 Chinese killed when plague-infected rats are released from Unit 731 at the end of the Second World War.
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A kindergarten teacher admitted Thursday pricking 63 "disobedient" children in her class with an empty syringe in court in southwest China's Yunnan Province. The trial of Sun Qiqi, a teacher with the Xihu Nursery, was held at the Jianshui County People's Court.
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Technology, declining fertility and ancient prejudice are combining to unbalance societies. Gendercide—to borrow the title of a 1985 book by Mary Anne Warren—is often seen as an unintended consequence of China’s one-child policy, or as a product of poverty or ignorance. But that cannot be the whole story.
read more »These two men were charged with murder by stoning and yet this case will receive very little media interest. Their story, however, highlights just how serious Xinjiang is in preserving a different set of its minorities.
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What would it take to get you on a bike in Shanghai? How about 800 rental stands outside Metro station exits and 2,700 more in residential areas in the next two years? Shanghai’s state-owned bicycle company, Forever, is working together with the government...
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Archaeologists are currently excavating further areas of the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, the first and most infamous Emperor of China. The site, where the magnificent terracotta warriors were discovered relatively recently - 1974 - contains the undisturbed tomb of the Emperor. With rumours of flowing mercury and incomparable treasures, the question on everyone's lips is - what's inside?
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What economic crisis? After a blip last winter, China is growing at more than 8% a year, and the scale and speed at which the country is building a modern infrastructure are mind-boggling.
read more »In 1999, the government began a push to expand college education — once considered a golden ticket — to produce more professionals to meet the demands of globalization. This year, more than 6.3 million graduates will enter the job market, up from one million in 1999. But the number of high-skilled, high-paying jobs has not kept pace.
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