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Chinese netizens discuss a story about a man who has been married only for 1 year but has already been beaten by his wife 9 times. Should he get a divorce?

Under China's strict birth-control laws, Wai Ling, 19 and her boyfriend, 21, are too young to get married, and without being married they can't register their daughter's birth. They could bribe a state official to turn a blind eye, but that would cost far more than they could ever afford - half a year's salary of £1,300. The alternative of a court appearance and swingeing fine for having an illegal child would be equally ruinous - so Wai Ling feels she has little choice but to sell her newborn baby to a child trafficker.

A posting from Joyceland, written by a Chinese woman, raised in the USA, lived in the UK and married to a Canuck [I think I've got it right]. Some interesting comments on the Games, so far.

A single Chinese man owns a restaurant.

One day a beautiful Chinese woman walks in.

He immediately walks over and asks her out on a date to which she agrees.

They go out for a while, and soon, the man ....

A Chinese student fell to her death in Sydney after being sexually assaulted. Liao Wei and her boyfriend fell from their third-storey apartment. Liao, her boyfriend and two other flat mates were all sexually assaulted by an intruder.

CBC reports on a bridge in Hunan that collapsed before construction was finished. Workers were removing scaffolding when the bridge went down.

A mysterious epidemic is killing pigs in southeastern China, but international and Hong Kong authorities said today that the Chinese government is providing little information about it, or about the contaminated wheat gluten that has caused deaths and illnesses in other animals.

The lack of even basic details is reviving longstanding questions about whether China is willing to share information about health and food safety issues with potential global implications.

If I tell you that China has probably the world’s biggest government building, you would think that it must be in big cities like Shanghai or Beijing. Wrong. It is in Jinan, the capital city of Shandong province in eastern China.
According to local newspaper reports, the building occupies an area of 240,000 square meters, and has 15 floors, 400 elevators and 45,000 computer ports. It will host 49 government departments. The construction project is said to cost up to 4 billion RMB.

Tigers in a north China zoo that was too poor to properly feed them turned on each other, killing and eating one, zoo authorities said on Monday.

"There is no money. Of course (the incident) was caused by a lack of food," a woman in the director's office at the Shenyang Bingchuan Wildlife Park told Reuters.