Animal rights
From Sina Several camels at a tourist hot spot in Northwest China have died from receiving a record-high number of visitors during China’s eight-day holiday. Mingsha Mountain (Singing-sand Mountain-dunes), 6 km south of the city of Dunhuang in Gansu Province, is one of the most well-known tourist attractions in the country. It is a range [...]
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From Renren and Xinhua The city of Harbin in northeastern Heilongjing province has enforced a new regulation that prohibits residents in the city and the townships it administers from raising 49 breeds of large, fierce and ugly dogs including Golden Retriever, Samoyeds, Chow Chow and Labrador Retriever that are known to have mild and lovable [...]
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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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