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KarmaSense is a positive alternative to Google’s AdSense for your website or blog. The Library Project, a small charity that provides books to elementary schools in the countryside of China developed KarmaSense to help raise awareness of their good works. They need your help.

A new report out of Beijing is loosening the government's choke-hold on public outcry. "China's State Council on Friday approved a new regulation designed to make it easier for the public to lodge complaints against what they deem unjust government decisions.

According to the Regulation on Implementing Administrative Review Law, the public has the right to ask the government to review its actions and decisions that they believe have infringed upon their rights."

It's official, the 2007 China Blog Awards are here. If you run an English-language, China focused blog, or you just like clicking things that say "vote" be sure to check out this article for all the details.

The Hao Hao Report is proud to be hosting the China Blog Awards 2007 - Best Story. We've dubbed it the Zui Hao (Best) Report.

Philip J. Cunningham at Informed Comment Global Affairs has a great post about Chinese State TV and their Dialogue commentary program. I’m just going to excerpt the funny and historical bit below the fold, but the rest of the discussion, hopeful and realistic, is quite worthwhile. The focus is actually on the collaboration/mutual exploitation relationship between CCTV and Japan’s NHK.

To help celebrate National Day here in China, the Lost Laowai Blog proudly presents a comedic look at significant events in China over the last 57 years of CPC rule. Tongue in cheek doesn't cover it. Parts are just downright stupid - and I wrote it.

This doubles as the official announcement that Lost Laowai (and in turn, Hao Hao Report) now has a blog. Let us know what you think.

I'm not calling anyone a liar, but that's three foiled terrorist attacks in the past year that have been supported by exactly zero pieces of public evidence.

The Hao Hao Report has been added to the latest version of the excellent WordPress plugin - Sociable. The plugin allows blog owners to easily add a collection of icons to their posts making the addition of their articles to various social bookmarking sites (such as this) a breeze.

To see this in action - check out any of the posts at the Lost Laowai Blog.

Social networking site, The Hao Hao Report, is a way to quickly see what the most popular English language articles regarding China are. The HHR accepts blog posts, major news articles, and basically anything about China. The HHR is part of the Lost Laowai family, a site providing a number of resources for foreigners coming to or already in China.

Being like Texas is a bit boring. Sure, you get colorful nuts who proclaim local independence like it'll really happen someday, but most of the time you're stuck wishing you weren't surrounded by endless tracts of sand. And religous conservatives. And George W. Bush. Ugggh.

But wait! There is another path.