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What I found the most interesting to watch was how westerners behaved. And why? Well, because something tells me that their behavior here, is completely different to what it would have been back in their home countries. Laowais behaviour in China... well worth questioning at times.

Nur Bekri, chairman of the Xinjiang regional government, angrily told scrumming reporters in Beijing today that he found it "completely unbelievable" that foreign media were linking an alleged terror plot avoided by China last week with "some other incidents" (probably referring to Tibet and Darfur).

As Steve Dickinson very concisely summarizes in this recent post on China Law Blog, the government is actively expanding their control over foreign investment in China’s real estate market. That isn’t to say that real estate is completely off limits for foreign players, but rather that the Central Government has put themselves in a position where they can disapprove or delay projects completely at their own discretion.

Not completely, anyway. A SwissCham Beijing lecture reveals how foreigners can own Chinese media online - and make lots of money. From a podcast.

It is true that many attorneys (though certainly not all) will advise that a wholly foreign owned entity (WFOE) are more advantageous than JV’s. It was nice to see someone playing devil’s advocate supporting the JV though I am not completely convinced. Here's why.

A 20 year old man, apparently dissatisfied with his genital surgery killed a 71 year old doctor by stabbing him with a pair of scissors

Found this article thanks to http://madaboutshanghai.blogs.com, and it's just nuts. Parents are offering cosmetic surgery as an incentive for their kids to do well on college entrance exams. Big on the list of bod-mods is labial reduction... aparently a big problem with today's Chinese teens.

The train station in Mbeya, Tanzania stands out among the other buildings in the city. It is the nicest structure in the city, and it, along with the railway that runs through it, was completely financed and built by the People’s Republic of China.

Well, after weeks of disappearing from the grid, J.'s Granite Studio is pumping out more great entries. The latest deals with the idea that China has long been a "closed" culture and only recently, through pressures and methodology from the West, has opened. The post makes great points on how this is completely false.