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Only after 2 days of school, 4 Shanghai middle school students have already jumped off buildings to commit suicide. Netizens blame the kids, education system, parents, society...

Sinosplice has a funny and interesting post about a Chinese children's book that teaches the kids the finer points of how to say, write and draw the likes of machine gun, heavy machine gun, handgun, rifle, semi-automatic rifle, Uzi, revolver, hand grenade, flame thrower, rocket launcher, smoke grenades, tank, aircraft carrier, bomber plane, fighter jet, guided missile, stealth bomber.

It raises an interesting question of is it military propaganda, or just fun for kids. Where's the line?

A 3-year-old girl in Beichuan, one of the counties that suffered the most from Monday's earthquake in southwest China's Sichuan Province, has magically survived under the dead bodies of her parents. Song Xinyi's legs were seriously injured under the weight of her parents and many layers of rubble, but she could still talk when rescuers pulled her out after more than 40 hours. She explained the 3 Chinese characters that made up her name, and told everybody she loved painting and watching TV. Despite a coin-sized wound on her forehead, she still looked pretty.

In China, the children of those locked up carry the stigma of their parents' crimes. A few find ways to help, but there may be at least 600,000 such kids who are all but abandoned.

The New Dominion takes a look at the Uyghur debut in manga unearthed by Mutant Palm and makes some observations about this unique portrayal of Uyghurs in a non-Chinese media format.

Found this article thanks to http://madaboutshanghai.blogs.com, and it's just nuts. Parents are offering cosmetic surgery as an incentive for their kids to do well on college entrance exams. Big on the list of bod-mods is labial reduction... aparently a big problem with today's Chinese teens.

It is estimated that about one-third of China's 120 million Internet users are young men who hang out at Internet bars.

Apparently, not all of those boys are stupid...well, not test stupid...

Dui Hua asks what's the rush for Hu Jia's virdict. The writer hypotesis is that the Chinese Government wanted to get rid of this business before August and the Olympics. Furthermore it demonstrate that there was no lenience in handling the case.
There are some quite interesting infos and ideas

Rick, in his new role as master of CNET's Little Red Blog, points out where community sites like Facebook may be bordering on some serious privacy issues.

Citing Chinese Xiaonei's (Facebook clone) rather too in depth search options, he leads one to wonder just how much information about yourself is a good thing to have on the Chinese (or any) net - particularly when Internet witch hunts are becoming an every day affair.