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nice present for my birthday. NOT Sperm whale explodes in Tainan City; Blood and guts of 17-meter long 50-ton mammal splatter sidewalks, automobiles parked nearby – check out the yummy whale guts! “A dead sperm whale being transported through Tainan City on its way to a research station suddenly exploded yesterday, splattering cars and shops [...]

“Girls here are bought and sold, but there is an important difference compared with the 19th century: many of these modern slaves will be dead of AIDS by their 20′s.” reading this kind of reports just reconfirm my belief in how money alone will not solve the problems. so the reporter bought freedom of two [...]

just think this is an awesome debate.. thanks richard & adam! you guys make great points

i’ve seen this photo too many times. and have also heard too much about 1989 (2) (3). but it is the first time i heard about the story of taking this photo. it goes well with other stories of journalists smuggling out reports, photographs, videos for 1989. chinese who helped them were easily executed. see [...]

i’m not relieved but i do enjoy the outcome of this case. it’s not only the justice but the fact internet is the major source of influence to help the case obtain the attention of the central gov’t. despite of all the banning and suppression, voices of the crowd can not be 100% muffled. i [...]

LMAO the infamous internet censorship in China got a bit messed up. apparently it blocked then unblocked duke.edu for some myterious reasons. gotta love the quote! “We don’t know for sure why it got blocked, and we also don’t know how it got unblocked,” said Gilbert Merkx, vice provost for international affairs. maybe someone screwed [...]

some people call for freedom of speech like a person walking in desert yearning for water. it strikes me as many chinese do feel the thirst.. the problem is how many of them will take to make a difference…..at all… wonder when that site will be banned by the gov’t but then they probably won’t [...]

yea it angered me when i first found out hu is going to celebrate Mao’s 110th birthday but this article is just wild. i can not imagine myself saying something to that degree. but it is true. esp. after reading wild swans and hungry ghosts. even the author of wild swans never dared to challenge [...]

wow this is very interesting while some people are desperate about gay rights, someone believed they found the first real gay magazine in china. the only evidence are the photos plus the title “menbox” i think. i’d like to see more of the contents inside. just looking at the name and the photos i can [...]

so have they really found the cause of SARS? apparently a microbiologist in HK who studies SARS had recently discovered SARS-like virus in civet cats. so the chinese gov’t decided to kill 10,000 civet cats. big deal right? since they were being eaten anyway. slaughtering rats had worked for china before, maybe slaughter civet cats [...]