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A hidden camera video piece done by the BBC in Tianjin, about Kids selling Lemonade.

And by "kids," I mean "China,"
and by "lemonade," I mean "organs harvested from executed prisoners."

A classroom video from a Tibetan primary school in Qinghai. Am I crazy, or are these kids out of f#%@in' control!?

PetroChina, China's top oil and gas producer, has announced the discovery of a "very rich" oilfield at Bohai Bay near Dalian. With an initial daily output of 500 tons, the field is "the largest finding in China in the past 10 years".

I got caught without my passport, for the first time in 6 years in China. This is my trip to the Minhang Police Station and why the PSB are cracking down on Visas in "Korea-town". Seems the PSB are looking for a little extra cash for the Spring Festival. Eventually you stop asking how someone on only 4000 RMB/month can afford a BMW.

An Ethiopian rebel group said Tuesday it had launched an attack against a Chinese oil field. An official of the Chinese oil company involved had said 74 Chinese and Ethiopian workers were killed in the attack.

Looks like the times they are a'changin' and China's youth are all about the nookie. A China Daily article recently discovered that an "overwhelming majority" of high school girls would not turn away requests for sex by their boyfriends.

Though, the article points out, only 6.2% have actually had sex, it would seem the rest are chomping at the bit to try it. What's next? Skipping school to smoke pot behind the chou doufu stand?

Chinese housing developers are luring that country's burgeoning middle class with theme-park-style housing developments that hearken to romanticized versions of European cities: Merrie Olde England, Venice, Italy, Zurich, etc. In Nanjing, there are Balinese retreats and Italian villas. In the southeastern city of Hangzhou, there are Venice and Zurich. In downtown Beijing, everything is about Manhattan, with Soho, Central Park and Park Avenue.

“The cycle of poverty can only be broken through education. Poor peasant farmers struggle to pay the annual school fees for their children to go to primary school but very, very few can afford the higher costs of sending the children to Junior Middle School or beyond. We know that if the children can learn to be comfortable with foreign visitors and speak some English they will be able to get work. Volunteer English Teachers...

Watch out Pamplona, Dalian might be copying your controversial sport. Recently a bull escaped a local slaughterhouse and made its way to the city centre where it squared off against the city's traffic and pedestrians.

Before being rendered unconscious it was heard to have said that "Dalian is a clean and beautiful city".