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At least 60 people—officials, police, and protesters—were injured in the riots, according to a statement on the government Web site of Longnan city, where the unrest occurred. The protest initially began Monday with just a small group of people complaining about the demolition of their homes to make way for a new road in Longnan in Gansu province.

These days China likes to flaunt everything that is big and grand. On 28 August, the world’s third tallest skyscraper Shanghai World Financial Centre (492 meters, 101 storeys), after Burj Dubai and Taipei 101, was open for business. And tomorrow (30 August), the observatory on the 100th floor of the Centre will open, becoming the world’s tallest sightseeing facility.

A LEAKED speech by a police commander in charge of security at the 2008 Beijing Olympics has disclosed that the authorities fear mass protests by disaffected Chinese as the biggest threat to the Games. Yu said he was planning the preventive detention of anyone organising “incitement” and of those who “plot behind the scenes”. He said police were building a databank of people known for bad behaviour, singling out Chinese who use the traditional right to petition government as a means to make trouble.

The Granite Studio has an interesting post illustrating the inconsistency and division between BOGOG, the central government and reality when it comes to the controversy surrounding the deaths of workers building Olympic structures in Beijing.

BEIJING (AP) -- Thousands of farmers in southwest China rioted at a government office after authorities imposed heavy fines on families that had more children than allowed under the country's family planning policy, a newspaper and a villager said Monday.

Anti-riot police were called in after villagers set fires and smashed cars Saturday at the Shapo township government office in the Guangxi region, Hong Kong's Ming Pao Daily News said.

China's booming Internet population has surpassed the United States to become the world's biggest, with 253 million people online despite government controls on Web use, according to government data reported Friday.

This cool video (got via Sinosplice) shows the demolition of an old building. Just when the building appears to never want to come down, it does - on top of the poor guy demo'ing it.

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Australian blogger Xiao Zhu believes the Chinese government needs to get serious about public awareness advertising.

BEIJING, Aug 23 (Al'Reuters) - IBM, the world's biggest computer-services firm, said on Wednesday it could open four offices annually in second-tier Chinese cities in coming years to take advantage of robust growth and a deep talent pool.