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Hundreds of Chinese students clashed with police and overturned and burnt their car after street inspectors beat up a female student, a police officer and witnesses said on Thursday, the latest in a series of public disturbances.

Chinese people on Tianya BBS discuss Huang Guangyu's arrest for manipulating stock market prices. Some say all rich people are rich because they break laws. Others still admire him because of how he began as a poor man who did not finish school but became very successful.

"The People’s Alliance for Democracy (Pad) is a collection of rightwing activists, business people and former army chiefs…The movement wants to replace the country’s electoral democracy... Anyway, during the street fights one of the pro-government peasants, a 55 year old man, was killed. He was beaten to death with golf clubs." Golf clubs?

After seeing Carl Pei’s article over at To Be Rich Is To Be Glorious, I had to follow-up with my own list with some taken from his as well.

Construction workers are worth so little that they spend their times picking cement of bricks that can be re-used. Meanwhile the apartments they build are worth more than they could make in a lifetime.

Citizen journalists site Global Voices Online is keeping track of articles written by bloggers in Tibet about the riot... very worth reading

Nations rich and poor need to reduce the impact of consumption on their natural resources, writes Maryann Bird, in an article on consumption and consumerism in China, which has sparked some heated discussion among Chinese readers.

From the article: HONG KONG (Reuters) - Thousands of Chinese villagers clashed with riot police after barricading officials and foreign businessmen in a warehouse they said had been built on illegally seized land, a newspaper reported on Friday.

A young Chinese man complains about his father's businesses going bankrupt partly due to the financial crisis and his family suddenly becoming much poorer than they used to be. His family only has millions now, he only has his Porsche, and he can no longer buy 20,000+ RMB clothes freely anymore. Chinese netizens respond.