"So far, the world has heard from the young man and the cameraman in the famous Bus Uncle episode. But who cares about them? The world wants to know about the Bus Uncle himself.
How do you find him? This is where the resources of the mainstream media rule! The 68X bus goes to Yuen Long wher
another interesting entry from Dan about Chinese vocab I haven't learned yet.
He talks about "The Eight Triograms" or Bagua - and explains how bagua has taken on a new meaning these days.
Good, useful stuff!
BEIJING (AP) -- A Chinese activist was struck by an assailant and left paralyzed after meeting with police to discuss an interview he gave on German television, a human rights group and a German broadcaster said Tuesday.
The attack on Fu Xiancai, a critic of the government's treatment of people displaced by the Three Gorges dam project, highlighted the risks Chinese rights campaigners face.
"It's graduation time, and more than four million college students are about to embark on a new phase of life. Some will find jobs, though there are 22% fewer vacant positions compared to last year. Others will go on to grad-school, postponing the job search a few more years.
Still others have no idea what they'll do. A guest column in last week's Sanlian Life Week captures the conflicted feelings of graduates as they go out into the world. It...
A Chinese Forture-teller has a go at predicting the 2006 Stanley Cup Final.
One Man Bandwidth tells us about the first foreigner in China... no word yet on how many Viking longships he was charged for a bowl of rice.
The geekiest, yet funniest post on any Chinese blog. Ever.
Researchers at the University of Cambridge have done some analysis on how the PRC?s Great Firewall (GFW) handles the ?blocking? or interruption of web page loading midstream when it detects sensitive keywords related to the day after June 3 and certain religious groups. What they discovered is quite surprising, because it indicates that the mechanism is simple, clever, but at the same time, quite straighforward to circumvent. Read on for a layman...
The second summary to "The rise of China into the world?s agenda - Challenges and Implications" seminar held at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel.
World researchers discuss China's uprising economic dominance and the relations with the United States with a lecture titled "China Bashing".
ESWN gives his opinion on the relevance of Hong Kong's July 1st march for democracy/universal suffrage. The post goes off of the insightful commentary of Chinese blogger Charles Mok (reprinted in translation) that illustrates how the march has become a dilluted mess of social interest groups all trying to be heard.
The Observer profiles a new travel destination in Banyan Tree resort, Ringha. Views are breath-taking and the experience is unmatched, the author says.
This new resort at the foot of the Himalayas could expose droves of new tourists to what was once independent Tibet. The questions is: Does this exposure help or hurt? Will the new area preserve what is best about ShangriLa, or turn it into a Himalayan Disneyland?
A group representing more than 1,400 music companies in 73 countries has said it is preparing to sue Yahoo! China over allegations that it links users to Web sites offering pirated music.
