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tealeafnation.com — Netizens have discovered a shocking secret: Right next to the picture of Mao, the Great Helmsman, there appears to be cartoonish renditions of three cats, two prostrating before the “leader cat” in the center, with its arms raised and eyes glazed.

www.chinadaily.com.cn — There may be as many as 16 million women on the Chinese mainland who are married to homosexual men, a leading expert has estimated.
Professor Zhang Bei-chuan at Qingdao University, an authority on AIDS and HIV, says that due to traditional family values in China, about 90 percent of homosexual men get married because of pressure to conform.

wanderingamericantravelblog.com — A Chinese student wants to know what a foreigner thinks of Taiwan's status and gets what she asks for. Sort of.

www.zdnet.com — Jason Perlow explains why he thinks Chinese workers "need to suffer." Otherwise, prices will rise, which is a "nightmare scenario." Clearly this poster does not agree, but it's worth a read.

blog.knowledge-must.com — You are thinking about going abroad, studying away from home for a few semesters? You are considering China among your choices? You want to know more about your chances and opportunities in China, which problems and difficulties you will have to deal with?

www.danwei.com — A recruitment firm called J.M. Gemini has published the results of a salary survey based on compensation at the firm’s client companies in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou.

tealeafnation.com — Bona (博纳), a chain of movie theaters in China, which has no movie rating system, has announced that it will begin to rate its own. Netizens have applauded this brave new world.

www.fluentflix.com — Now who said that Chinese reality TV shows aren’t real?
This episode of “Only You,” China’s “Apprentice” style job-interview show, has to be one of the most real, tense, and awkward episodes ever recorded.

www.youtube.com — Following the extraordinary "Electronica Truck" and "Rock Truck" anti-nuclear demonstrations held on April 30th, the NoNuke Cultural Activism Group went back to their community (around Shida Gongguan) to seek out other people who might be interested in making this area an anti-nuclear one.

tech.fortune.cnn.com — Morgan Stanley has seen the future and it's a well-heeled Chinese man (or woman) with an iPhone. An AlphaWise survey of buying patterns among China's rapidly growing middle class shows what is possible in the mainland smartphone market. China Unicom, currently Apple's only official carrier, has 15 million high-end subscribers.