The Mouse looms over Shanghai
2009-11-05 08:35:17
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Xinhua Daily Telegraph
November 5, 2009
San Jin City News
Disney is coming to Shanghai.
The Shanghai government announced yesterday that its proposal for a Disney theme park in the city had bee...
Hundreds protest after man died in Kunming
2009-11-05 04:46:23
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ChinaSMACK has a translation of a story about a man in Kunming beaten to death by the Chengguan.
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World Bank: China's economy to grow 8.4% this year
2009-11-05 04:52:46
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The New York Times reports:
The bank now expects the Chinese economy to grow 8.4 percent this year, according to its latest quarterly review of the country, up from the 7.2 percent it forecast in June. It pr...
Taiwan to open memorial museum for 228 incident
2009-11-05 05:10:36
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Taipei Times reports. The museum will be open for memorials in 2010.
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Soong Mei-ling and Christianity
2009-11-05 04:23:39
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Biographer Hannah Pakula has written an biography of Soong Mei-ling. The New York Times has an extract about her religious upbringing:
Religion had made Charlie Soong's life. The Methodist Church had educate...
On silk farming in Wuzhen
2009-11-05 04:13:29
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David at Randomwire posts on his visit and witnessing of cocoons boiled and silk extracted, with photos.
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Actor fakes multiple illnesses in commercials
2009-11-05 04:12:29
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ESWN presents reports and videos featuring xiangsheng actor Hou Yaohua, who has promoted dodgy medicines in ten television commercials.
At the China Daily as well.
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Follow-ups to Wen Jiabao's DPRK trip
2009-11-05 04:06:56
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Adam Cathcart rounds up some reactions to various episodes of the Premier's recent visit to Pyongyang, including this classic, noisy Arriflex camera one North Korean journalist used to film the proceedings.
Li...
Danwei Canteen: Chestnut Chicken Stew
2009-11-04 08:51:03
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Our new series, Danwei Canteen is a quick guide to traditional Chinese food as it's prepared where the cuisine was born: in Chinese rural areas and villages. We'll accompany the food with originally recorded mu...
A centenarian monk reads the newspaper
2009-11-04 08:49:48
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Daily Sunshine
November 4, 2009
Today's Daily Sunshine, a Shenzhen-based commercial paper, talked to the former abbot of Hongfa Temple ahead of his 103rd birthday on the 21st day of the 9th lunar month (Nove...