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tealeafnation.com — A Weibo campaign by a local Chengdu police station called "The Plan To Rescue Single Police" has caught fire on China's blogosphere.

indiaschinablog.blogspot.in — The Economist is often held prisoner by its own prejudice arising from its whatever-China-does-internationally-is-wrong stance, and a recent article on the South China Sea disputes proves it. Sadly, but not surprisingly, the newspaper warns against the dangers of viewing the dispute through cold war lenses, and then proceeds to do exactly that.

offbeatchina.com — Gui Zhentang, China’s biggest bear bile medicine producer, revealed IPO plans earlier this week, only to receive boycott calls from angry netizens.

www.wantchinatimes.com — The offspring of China's rich and powerful have been known to flaunt their wealth, and the recent wedding of the son of a village committee director in Shanxi has taken such displays of extravagance to a new level. When the bride and groom walked down the aisle, they did so on a red carpet paved with 15,000 hundred-yuan notes, in total worth more than US$230,000.

online.wsj.com — China rejected accusations it was obstructionist after its veto of a United Nations Security Council resolution against Syria, and said it was forced into a veto after some members pressed for a vote before disagreements had been resolved.

tealeafnation.com — Could it be the “Wukan effect?” That’s what @城道 has used to describe recent rumors of another uprising in Panhe’s East and West Village in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province that have recently circulated on Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter.

www.ft.com — Despite a steep ramp-up in spending on internal security, riot control forces remain stretched thin, and structural problems continue to plague the security apparatus.

www.thelocal.de — German Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke of stronger ties between China and Germany following her visit here, but voiced concern about attempts to keep her from meeting with government critics during her trip. Merkel had been due to speak with prominent civil rights lawyer, Mo Shaoping, at the German embassy in Beijing, but Chinese security kept him from taking part in the reception.

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.

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.