“…in many other poorly-run orphanages the traffic of tourists wishing to see kids dance or treat them to trips to the water park results in kids being extracted from school far too often.”

“They’re here, they’re queer, they’re Chinese”

“Ah, the power! Oh, the embarrassment! The Guardian had labelled me a propagandist. To think I moved to Beijing to freelance. “

“… the government is once again tightening the screws of internet censorship. Specifically, the new changes are targeted against China’s bloggers and their 34 million blogs. “

” It should be noted that the dire tion the city-states are going in seemingly to be the opposite of each other. Singapore is relaxing rules and regulations while Hong Kong seems to want to continue to meddle in economic aff”

“China formal reserves were a bit under $1.1 trillion – think $1.066 trillion – at the end of last year. No doubt they are close to $1.1 trillion, if not above it, now. No wonder China’s central bank government just made it quite clear that the

“An online game operator has demanded that banned players donate blood to be allowed back into the game. Moliyo, which runs 3D massively multiplayer online game in China, made the demand after banning 120,000 players who attempted to hack th game.”

“A 4-metre-high nude painting barred from general public viewing in restrictive Singapore has been sold for 60,000 US dollars to an art collector.”

“Some consultant has done a survey saying that Hong Kong is becoming an ever-worse place for expats, slipping behind Singapore, Tokyo, Sydney and Sierra Leone as a place to live. The city now ranks alongside Jakarta and Port Morseby in the expat stakes. “

“The things on this list are all true for me, and I’ve been noticing them lately, when American friends come visit me. For me, it’s not so much what I do, but what I don’t anymore, that sometimes surprises me.”

“A 38-year-old office worker got a rude introduction to the perils of blogging when he posted about his pot-smoking experience in the Netherlands on his blog “

“He was sentenced to 1 year in jail and 5 years probation. The judge will decide if the time already served (since last July) can be applied to his year in jail.”

“Chaos threatens; tempers are short, but amidst all this turmoil, there is one person you don’t wa t to cross, that person is Hello Kitty…”

“The book, using narrative methods, analyzes the experiences of the transgendered (Kathoey / Ladyboy) to challenge the stereotypes they face. In much of the book, the authors prefer to stick to the term ‘Sao Praphet Song’ (Second-type women).”

” The back story: A creative friend of his was fired from a Bangkok agenc for calling a client a prick, and wrote this for a poetry reading afterward. A year later, the same agency re-hired him Presumably, the prick was no longer a client.”

” one thing most Chinese people do not have is any actual experience with free speech. By denying Chinese people that experience the Chinese government keeps the Chinese people from having any reasonable incentive to strongly question or change their opin

“Erdem’s highly credentialed lawyer has the exact same credentials as China Law Blog’s very own Steve Dickinson! And to add to this truly mind-boggling coincidence, Erdem’s American lawyer is also named “Steve Dickinson.” “

Selected KFC commercials on Tudou:

“The 22-year-old author of a column titled “Why I Hate Blacks” in the regional newspaper AsianWeek has been dismissed, and the paper’s editors said Wednesday that they suffered “a serious lapse in editorial judgment” when they published his column.”

“… the team at China Daily can console itself with two thoughts. First, it’s still on the list of China information sources that I give to new foreign hires at my agency. Second, it is an unimpeachable beacon of insight and daring reportage when compare

“”What do we do when the foreign media demand red envelopes?”

“Any ideas on the success behind the concept of “Uyghur beauty” in the Han mindset? Is this a recent phenomenon, or can we trace this through the Fragrant Concubine and beyond to antiquity?”

“The issue of Internet censorship has been on the international Internet agenda for a few years as part of a more general discussion on the topic of media and citizen control on freedom of speech in the People’s Republic of China.”

“The government of China …seems determined to keep China poorer than it needs for to be. After all, the government of China, not the government of the US, actively intervenes in the market every day to hold China’s living standards down – or, if no

““Singapore is monitoring the localised impact of global warming on the country.” The report seems to focus on the fact that even if the sea rises upto 70-80cm, then it won’t be a problem as reclaimed land in Singapore is 120cm above sea level.”

“It’s the answer to your dreams. Wake up in the morning with the face of Kittychan staring up at you from your toast! For just $20!”

“A 45-year-old man was arrested last Thursday in Yamanashi Prefecture for stealing 400 items of women’s underwear from a laundromat during the past 3 years.”

“A zoo worker dressed as an orang-utan falls after being ’shot’ by another zoo worker with a simulated tranquiliser dart as part of an animal escape drill at a zoo in western Tokyo February 27, 2007.”

” According to cnnb.com.cn, scientists in Shandong have successfully implanted a microchip and radio receiver in a pig on’s brain, enabling them to instruct the pigeon by remote control to take off, fly in circles and obey other commands.”