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From the Guardian:
"Young girls are lured to the UK with the promise of lucrative, respectable careers. Some as young as 11, they arrive without passports or visas, some claiming asylum at British airports, having paid traffickers thousands of pounds for their transit."

Hong Kong-owned toy producer Smart Union Group has gone bankrupt, closing its factories in Dongguan and Qingyuan. Its 6500 employees in Dongguan were surprised by the closure. Some of the employees have not been paid since August.

Jason at Over And Out translates a QQ forward of a different sort - a Q&A with a young Chinese writer who is, of all things, speaking reason in these turbulent times.

A Next Weekly (in translation via ESWN) article by Steven N.S. Cheung, where he gives a bit of depth to some of Beijing's reasons for supression of free speech, and why in the end it will stop knowledge development - and in turn Chinese social development.

Following on the World Bank’s 2001 publication, China and the Knowledge Economy: Seizing the 21st Century, this book is another exceptional product I would like to recommend to the Chinese audience. The essence of lifelong learning is to provide opportunities for people to learn throughout their ...

Latest developments in the Sanlu milk powder baby formula with melamine controversy reveal that a Zhejiang man was paid to keep quiet about potential problems.

Great photo by Reuters' Daniel Aguilar of Chinese dancers performing the thousand hands of Guanyin at the Olympic Village.

990AM in Shanghai broadcast where someone criticized Shanghainese people for speaking their native Shanghai dialect in public areas to show their superiority.

Young Chinese girl meets 18-year-old young man on internet, soon forced to stay with him for over a year. Judge blames parents for not teaching her properly.