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A flight attendant's working life was once a simple round of pointing out the emergency exits and serving food and drinks to passengers. But now, faced with the threat of global terrorism, a Chinese airline is looking for 70 young ladies who can pack a punch as well as hand out bags of peanuts.

Kaiser Kuo's review of QQ currency and fears of it contributing to RMB money supply and inflation, and also stock price manipulation for Tencent. Virtual currency fans should read this!

"The eruption of the U.S. sub-prime crisis has exposed massive loopholes in the United States' financial oversight and supervision," writes the commentator, Shi Jianxun, "The world urgently needs to create a diversified currency and financial system and fair and just financial order that is not dependent on the United States."

Nothing to do with China but fun to use. An online diagram drawing tool. So easy to use even I can manage it.

Wang Li, a "new Shanghaiese" shares with us how she became involved in Chinese civil society: "In 1991 I came to Shanghai from Sichuan, and with [my husband] Ku Haiyang , a disabled person, started a happy family, living a simple and quiet life. But in 2001, an event changed my previous ideas. I was given the opportunity of getting a free prosthetics by a charitable organization, and getting help in a gratuitous way changed my feelings and moved me deeply..."

For the Chinese businesses looking for attorneys: don’t look for the cheapest rates and then demand discounts. Trust me, you won’t be happy with those services and those attorneys are not going to be happy with you. Like many things in life, YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR.

"No weirdness, no vulgarity, no low taste," the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television said Friday in a notice to the producers of "Happy Boys Voice," according to the official Xinhua News Agency.

And no fun at all, looks like. Then again, how much weirder can you get than a show called "Happy Boys Voice"?

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Philip Pan slightly disagrees with Minxin Pei's analysis that even though the party-state has successfully resisted change so far, pressure on the system for political liberalization is building.