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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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KUNMING -- More than 80 teenagers from a southwest China school have been hospitalized after the mystery death of a fellow student in what a senior doctor described as a case of mass hysteria.

John references a Sydney Morning Herald article which reported that the iTunes store is blocked in China allegedly due to Olympic athletes downloading pro-Tibetan music in (not so) silent protest.

“After Kim Jong Il assumed power he began a program of ’sex training’ for spies, using agents from China and the former Soviet Union as instructors,” Terence Lee, a risk management consultant, tells. Such training may have included legendary ancient Chinese bedroom methods that, if applied correctly, might cause the object of seduction to suffer heart failure.

As if there weren’t enough American Bar Association accredited law schools–-191 of them–-and a whole host of other unaccredited schools (some of which are seeking accreditation), there is talk of an ABA approved school in China. If it happens, it would be the first school approved outside of the U.S. Here is the news from BeiDa.

I was just sitting here ready to write a post when our whole building started to sway, I thought it was a case of vertigo until the pictures started to sway. Outside what I found most strange was that some construction workers remained on the cranes and continued working.

The entire Chinese nation is praying for miracles. Miracles can always happen, where there is hope. "If only there is the slightest hope, we will spare no effort; if only there is one survivor in the debris, we will never give up," Premier Wen Jiabao said over the debris of a collapsed school building where hundreds were buried.

A blind "barefoot lawyer" has infuriated half the officials in Shandong Province with a case that highlights many of China's unfinished civil reforms: humane treatment, due process, and rule of law.
For Chen Guangcheng - who has been under siege and arrest for a year - the problem is that he is that case.

Only after 2 days of school, 4 Shanghai middle school students have already jumped off buildings to commit suicide. Netizens blame the kids, education system, parents, society...