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From Baidu, Sina Weibo “It is said that today, Du Fu is very busy. He rode a motorcycle before switching to a white horse. He sells watermelons after he delivered bottled water.” A portrait of Du Fu in the Chinese literature textbook has recently been the inspiration of a slew of photoshop masterpieces, while the [...]
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From IFeng Yanyan (pseudonym)has suffered much censure and insult after she gave birth to a daughter out of wedlock. Every time her two-year-old daughter asks about “papa,” Yanyan cannot refrain her tears. However, as her daughter grows, she becomes stronger than ever. She is the first mother in Hebei province to file a lawsuit for [...]
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From NetEase In Guangdong, because a domesticate goose costs twice as much as a duck, restaurants that serve roast geese usually pass ducks off as geese. After their feathers are plucked and their feet are choped off, the two birds look quite the same, except that a Chinese domestic goose may be readily distinguished from [...]
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From Yangcheng Evening Post Ever since she suffered a career downfall, Cheng Jing, a white-collar worker in Guangzhou, has become fascinated with all forms of spiritualism and their books and products, including astrology, hypnotism, tarot cards, aromatherapy and meditation, hoping to find spiritual guidance and be healed. In fact, in recent years, the concept of [...]
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A Magnitude 8.0 earthquake struck Sichuan province in southwestern China on May 12, 2008, killing nearly 70,000 people. However, on March 18, about four years after the quake, a reporter with First Financial Daily found in Beichuan, a small town right next to the epicenter Wenchuan, a 500-square-meter room (5,300 square feet) filled with unopened [...]
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Multiple sources At 10 p.m. on March 16, the 724-meter Shuiximen Viaduct was reduced to rubble in a blink of an eye. For 16 years, the City West Artery, which Shuiximen Viaduct has been a part of, has been bearing the weight of Nanjing’s high-speed road traffic. The blasting demolition of it has touched a [...]
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From ChinaNews, NetEase On March 14, Jinjiang Prison in Sichuan province partnered with a local vocational school and started to offer embroidery lessons to its male inmates. According to the person in charge, the prison has been for years following its principle of classifying inmates based on their aptitude and rehabilitating them accordingly, which helps [...]
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On March 15, China’s Consumer Rights Protection Day, China Central Television wielded its camera at world’s largest fast food chain and exposed a number of dishonest and unsanitary practices – with its reporter masquerading as a busboy. However, the story takes a surprising twist, after the hashtag “I trust McDonalds more than I trust CCTV” [...]
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From NetEase and iFeng On March 15, China’s Consumer Rights Protection Day, about 100 homeowners took to the street in Qingdao, Shandong province, and decried the planned construction of an adjacent 220 kilovolts substation, with an element of performance art. “Vanke Doesn’t Have Moral Conscience,” the combination of individual characters on the protesters’ shirts says. [...]
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Wow, this is a gift from boys at Xiamen University to girls on March 8 Women’s Day: a, ahem, maxi-pad of roses. (Picked at Sina Weibo)
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From Wenxuecity To be fair, likeness in some pairs is generic and harmless, but others just share blatant resemblance and are even nearly identical. Love Actually (UK) VS. Fit Lover (China) Red Cliff (China, 2008) VS. The Knot (China/Taiwan, 2006) Vantage Point (U.S.) VS. Seven 2 One (Hong Kong, China) Daddy Day Camp (U.S.) VS. [...]
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From Weibo 1 and 2 Starting on March 3 and 5, two special meetings are convened in Beijing, China. These are the annual sessions of the National People’s Congress (NPC), China’s top legislative body, and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), a political advisory body consisting of delegates from a range of political parties and organizations. [...]
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From NetEase To shield foundlings from harm and threats in the wilderness where they are usually abandoned and increase their chance of survival, an orphanage in Shijiazhuang, North China’s Hebei province set up a baby hatch last June as a temporary shelter to allow parents to drop off unwanted infants, which has drawn controversy from [...]
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From NetEase Forum Sex, drugs and AIDS are eroding Gejiu, or “the Tin City”, in Yunnan province. The city has more than 5,400 registered injection drug users, at least 70 percent of whom are infected with HIV. Thousands have reached a stage where their immune system has been damaged, and their HIV has become a [...]
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From NetEase Even though her plan to give a lecture on sexology to Chinese college students was canceled amid ‘safety concerns’, Japanese porn star Hotaru Akane was invited by the local television in Wuhan to appear in a TV program. Peng Xiaohui, a sexology professor at Central China Normal University (CCNU) in Wuhan, Hubei province, [...]
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From NetEase The annual “two sessions” – one for the National People’s Congress, China’s top legislative body, and the other for Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, convene in Beijing on March 5 this year. Reporters with Xinhua News Agency visited a college campus, a bus station, a hospital, a construction site among other places and [...]
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The devil is in the details; extravagance is in the details of a bullet train. 1,125-yuan toilet paper holder, 2,294-yuan foot-rest, flush toilet priced at nearly 100,000 yuan…An investigation report by New Century Weekly has unveiled overpriced parts one after another, and a bullet train that costs money like dirt. Behind these are “gray” budget [...]
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It takes the art of flower arrangement and patience of setting up domino tiles. But it just happens when you have a bunch of bored grocery store employees, a ton of products and an obsession to put everything in place. The following pictures taken in China’s supermarkets show you what unstoppable aunties (as most supermarket employees [...]
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Bad news for internet humor: China is exterminating countless slogans splashed on the walls in rural China, screaming family planning and sterilization and striving to intimidate the population into submission. The Chinese authorities say that in promoting family planning, “Only by keeping abreast of the times and catering to the people can the idea take [...]
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From @zeeko Guizhentang (literally Guizhen House) is China’s largest producer of bear bile – by extracting bile from live bears with abdomens slit open. Since news that the Fujian-based company has filed for an initial public offering broke on Sina Weibo alongside gruesome pictures of cuddly bears suffering, clamors against the cruelty and the bile [...]
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