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June 30, 20124 Comments

Why 98.5% of Chinese want to abolish the crime of ‘whoring underage girls’

From 3g.cn On June 25, a symposium on the crime of ‘whoring underage girls’ once again drew the public attention onto the highly controversial legal concept. As the number of sexual assaults on young girls is on the rise, the outcry against the crime type is gaining momentum, as it is widely believed to have [...]

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May 16, 20124 Comments

72.7% of Chinese are satisfied with crackdown on corruption? Netizens: ‘My @ss!’

From Sina NetEase 72.2 percent of Chinese are satisfied with China’s anti-corruption work in 2011, compared with only 51.9 percent in 2003, said Cui Hairong, deputy director of China’s National Bureau of Corruption Prevention at an international conference hosted by Hong Kong’s Independent Commission Against Corruption. The news met with unanimous derision, sarcasm and outrage [...]

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May 13, 2011One Comment

Flight with VIP takes off while others are still delayed; quarrel ensues

From NetEase and IFENG As the rainy season starts in southeastern and eastern part of China, many flights experienced weather-related delays. On the afternoon of May 8, two flights both leaving for Beijing from Ningbo, a city in eastern Zhejiang province, were put behind among others. However, when the sky cleared in the evening, one [...]

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April 13, 20112 Comments

Picture of the day: Heaven and earth in Chinese hospital

In Zhengzhou People’s Hospital’s In-Patient Department has two types of ward: ordinary and luxury ward. Luxury ward is a suite equipped with refrigerator, microwave oven, LCD TV, leather sofa, broadband, water cooler, luxury bed and 24-hour hot water supply. Nurses kept mum about who can live in these wards, and only disclosed that approval from [...]

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April 12, 2011One Comment

Picture of the day: Standoff between traffic police and an ambulance

On the morning of April 9, traffic on a thoroughfare of Changchun, capital city of northeastern Jilin province, came to a halt. Some big shot had came to make an inspection of the city, and the traffic police ordered vehicles to make way for the powerful official. An ambulance transporting a patient stopped at the [...]

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March 23, 201110 Comments

Contrast of Chinese and U.S. student disciplines becomes red-hot topic

From Sina A microblog post has called Chinese netizens’ attention to another difference in education between China and the U.S. – elementary school disciplines. An overwhelming majority said the Chinese version rings hollow and has no substance as to regulating student behavior. Some net users even said that the perfectionistic code should be used to [...]

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March 1, 2011No Comments

Chinese air hostesses bite chopsticks to train smiling at cadres

From China News To provide more sincere and better services to members and representatives of the annual “Two Sessions” (Jing: NPC&CPPCC, short for National People’s Congress and Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, are convened in early March each year), air hostesses within a division of China’s air force is training in front of a mirror [...]

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February 21, 2011One Comment

63-person Chinese 4th grade class elects 32 leaders; power worship permeates elementary schools

Jing’s note: In a typical Chinese elementary school class that consists of 50 to 65 students, about 10-15 students (there is no definitive number) are assigned positions and given titles. Team leader is usually responsible for collecting and handing in homework assignments for the team. Different commissioners, as their names suggest, oversees different parts of [...]

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January 25, 20112 Comments

Let cadres fly first – Chinese airlines prioritize those high in the political hierarchy

Do not take it for granted that you can enjoy unparalleled service in China after you purchase the first class air ticket. You’ll always have to take a backseat to a sizeable coterie of cadres, even if they’ve only paid for the economy class. In fact, serving all important passengers until they cry content is [...]

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