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My mother had always wanted a girl, so even as I grew inside her womb she hoped that I would come out female. When she finally gave birth to me and realized I was a boy she decided to raise me as a girl anyway by dressing me in female clothes. Then, when I turned 2, my parents divorced and the judge gave my mother custody of my brother and sent me to live with my father.

Days before the 2008 Olympic Games, a foreigner in Beijing holds up a sign: Please give me a hug. Uncertain and unsure, most Chinese passing by avoid her. On the internet, some say it is culture difference, others just want a chance to hug a hot foreigner.

A 23 year old pretty Shanghai girl posts her pictures on the Chinese Liba Forum looking for an honest husband, with double eyelids, that can take care of her.

Young Chinese girl meets 18-year-old young man on internet, soon forced to stay with him for over a year. Judge blames parents for not teaching her properly.

Violet Eclipse has a humorous entry about trying to decode a Chinese advertisement.

Excerpt:"I searched Dorothy's booklet for a clue. There was a twenty-something girl in a sundress, three smiling nurses with a huge bouquet. Another girl was napping in her night gown, a couple raised their glasses in a toast, another cute nurse talking to another female patient, and Angelina Jolie in lingerie."

A guy helps his pretty female colleague look for a husband on the internet by posting her picture and her requirements. Many guys were interested, some were not.

From the Guardian:
"Young girls are lured to the UK with the promise of lucrative, respectable careers. Some as young as 11, they arrive without passports or visas, some claiming asylum at British airports, having paid traffickers thousands of pounds for their transit."

Australia has upset Chinese delegates at the Climate Change Conference in Nairobi with claims the Asian giant is set to become the world's largest producer of greenhouse gases.

A story (translated via ESWN) by a young girl who after saying goodbye at the train station to her friends stumbles into an eye-opening experience with China's poor.

Befriending an elderly woman collecting rubbish for the little money it provides, the girl helps her pick up bottles and any rubbish of value. The girl then helps the woman bring the garbage back to her small, impoverished community, in turn opening the girl to a side of her city she'd never dreamt still existed in the 21st century. A touching photojournal of the girl's journey.