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A new panda mother who gave birth to twins this week accidentally crushed one of her newborns in her sleep, state media said Friday.

China's not the only one taking a narrow view of free speech these days. Global Voices links up stories from Turkey and France with the Middle Kingdom.

A photograph of a little kid playing next to a huge pile of coal powder which her mother is shoveling into a wheelbarrow.

The Chinese languages are the third largest mother tongue group – more than a million people (1,034,000) reported a Chinese language as their mother tongue in 2006, an increase of 18.5% since 2001.

China is in desperate need of curriculum and faculty development.

Long time China watcher Orville Schell spoke at the Long Now Foundation recently. His speech emphasised that when judging China and China's future/rise, it is important to keep in mind the contraditictory nature of the country. A summary by Stewart Brand gives the highlights of the speech.

Thanks to PKD for this.

A great photo post that shows the full scale of sandstorms in western China.

A boy in China's northeast city of Dalian has shocked his mother after she discovered he earned 100 yuan (US$13) for being a henchman to a rich classmate.

Asked why his classmate would want to hire an entourage, the boy was quoted as saying his schoolmate wanted to imitate "big bosses" such as his father or actors on television.

If it was not already, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is now officially an accomplice to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and all of the Chinese government’s attempts to censor free speech and block personal freedoms in China...