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Danwei gives a rundown of the Net response to the 'slave labour' case that has been the storm in Chinese news this week. For anyone just tuning in, brick kilns in Shanxi province were found to be using slave labour (including abducted children) to make their stackable product.

This Danwei article also contains the original note from the father's of the children that was sent to the central government and sparked the investigation in the first place.

Liu Mianhuan, 81, was a former 'comfort women' when Japan invaded China during WWII. She and three other former military sex slaves tortured by the Japanese told a Canadian audience stories that none of us living in peace time could have imagined.

Fake Japanese soldiers from WW2 are used to get attention from people in Henan to help sell more donkey meat.

A Chinese woman was hit by a falling cat. When no one in the building came forth with any information, she naturally proceeded to sue the lot of them.

Unfortunately the cat did not survive the fall, and cannot testify against the unknown cat dropper.

Note to readers:
Please refrain from any "Raining cats and dogs" comments.

Chinese government evolving skills in managing scandal in light of mobile phones spreading public opinion, especially to recent slave labor story.

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."

Vent your daily frustrations on bar keepers in Nanjing's latest after work hotspot.

Pay a few kwai, then punch the waiter or smack a bar stool across his head. Good clean fun for everyone!

Almost everything you need to know about surviving Chinese traffic on a bike: how Chinese traffic works, which vehicles to especially fear, "honking with Chinese characteristics," creative theft-deterrence, etc., plus some fun photos.

For 20 million years, the white-fin dolphin, or baiji, swam China's longest river, the Yangtze. But a few years of breakneck development, overfishing and a massive increase in shipping have reduced sightings of this shy, graceful creature to zero.