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China is apparently being tempted to lift a ban on the sale of tiger bones and body parts. It is sad that tiger may be reduced to a status akin to cattle.

ByLinEd writes a good description of her trip to the Tiger Leaping Gorge and Lijiang in Yunnan Province, China.

CBC plans to air a slightly reworked documentary on the Falun Gong on Nov. 20, ending a rift that forced the film's prime-time English debut to be abruptly cancelled this past week. Previously, the director had insisted he would not re-edit his film . . . But yesterday he said the requested fixes were relatively minor.

Article from "The Guardian" about a mountain community fighting plans for a giant dam in the Tiger Leaping Gorge in Yunnan. Dam is a "hot" issue in China right now, especially in Yunnan.
"The story of the Chezhou protest earlier this year is slowly spreading beyond this remote community and is now being told up and down the reaches of this spectacular gorge..."

A bit of conversation about a somewhat-new, and very interesting, British documentary about British businessmen in China. For anyone that doesn't have access to it, the entire thing (split between 7 YouTube segments) is available in the post.

In yet another continuing saga on how American businesses tend to lose the battle for their intellectual property rights in China, Pfizer loses rights to the slang term for their most famous product. I especially like the picture of Chinese Viagra packaging that's shown in the article. It puts Tiger Balm to shame.

An expose of how we obtain cheap goods from Asia. A documentary of the exploitation of the workers by factory owners and western buyers. How the factories get around inspections which are supposed to ensure conditions improve for workers. How factory workers live - and some die.

Sun Yat-sen led the historic revolution of 1911 that saw the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) thus ending China's autocratic monarchial system of 2,000 years.

The seeds for the idea of revolution were believed to have been implanted in Sun's thinking during the 9 years he spent in ...

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."