Paralympic Glory, written 1 day ago, Watched the opening ceremony for the Paralympics lat night. (I looked for a clip to link to but it doesn't seem to be up on youtube yet). It was a good show, solid and not obviously as flashy as the Olympics version. But it was really moving to see the disabled a...

Pokemon spotted in Guilin, written 1 week ago, A friend went on vacation and snapped these photos in a kid's park in Guilin. Photo credits: Aurelie Glorieux. They're made of foam, for kids, and the fathers apparently kept putting theirs kids next to them to take pictures.

Must Read China Post. It?s So Hard To Be A Saint In The City., written 7 hours ago, You have to check out Danwei's post, entitled, "It's not easy for a migrant worker in the legislature." I don't even want to tell you what it is about, because I see it being about so many things, some of w...

Collective Punishment, written 6 days ago, Most of you probably know that the violence has continued out in Xinjiang even after the Olympics — but let's start off with Wikipedia's description of collective punishment: Collective punishment is the punishment of a group of people as a result of the ...

Is the Great Firewall of China effective?, written 2 days ago, As is well known, the Chinese government engages in extensive monitoring and blocking of various foreign web sites in order to control what kind of information gets into the country. Indeed, this very blog is blocked in China. (I think.....

View of law and politics from a professor at Washington University in St. Louis.

Integrated Chinese: Level 1 COMPLETE, written 3 weeks ago, The ChinesePod Integrated Chinese Blog experiment has drawn to a close. We may try something similar in the future, possibly with Practical Chinese Reader or another popular Chinese textbook. Please let us know if you have any feedback. For ...

China central bank only has $3.2 billion capital, needs an infusion, written 2 hours ago, By KEITH BRADSHER, The New York Times, US, September 4, 2008 - HONG KONG — China's central bank is in a bind. It has been on a buying binge in the United States over the last seven years, snapping up roughly ...

Coverage of Olympics online, written 3 weeks ago, Saw Fusion View?s Tweet about watching the Olympics online, with coverage from NBC and BBC. Irish tv network also have...

Does China Know How to Balance Its Culture History with Progress?, written 1 day ago, Yesterday I decided to take a walk to the redeveloped portion of Shanghai's Wujiang Lu — one of Shanghai's famous food streets. I was surprised at the new portion of the road. It was clean and wide. There were sh...

Happy Merdeka 51st Birthday Malaysia!!!, written 1 week ago, Happy 51st Merdeka Day Malaysia!! Today marks the 51st Anniversary of Independence Day for Malaysia (Malaysia gained its independence in 1957). I spent it at the Malaysia Fest at Darling Harbour(or as it is also known:M-Fest)...apparently ...

Green gambling, but don't let this guy run your numbers, written 1 week ago, Thomas Friedman visited a wind farm near the East Asian gambling capital, Macao. But his rhetoric outsizes his quantitative skills in setting up another "dichotomy" in a "flat" world. The column is a diz...

Shanghai Art Fair 2008, written 16 hours ago, Into art?Check out details of the Shanghai Art Fair 2008 here.

Ah, those inscrutable Thais. Eh?, written 5 days ago, A moment of Asian fear and paranoia from elderly soap actress Wendy Richards who makes a classic 'they're all the same to me' observation about Kathreya, a contestant on UK reality show Big Brother.I wouldn't say it was an outright racist comment...

The "Hidden" Supply of Children, written 1 week ago, Now that the Olympics are past, waiting families hope that the flow of children will accelerate and wait times will decrease. Hope is often pinned to the large number of non-IA orphanages in China's Social Welfare system. Once some of th...

Spank Me, written 16 hours ago, The M&S grand opening may still be a few weeks away yet, but S&M is already alive and kicking in Shanghai. On Saturday I attended SPANK! which is a new S&M fetish party hosted at Shanghai Studio. The venue is like a secret underground labyrinth with 11 sma...

Yo, written 3 weeks ago, Carrot Zoolander, originally uploaded by jonbaron.This blog has been critically hampered by my recent inability to access blogger.com. I've now taken to blogging remotely via flickr, which means all my posts will be accompanied by obnoxious blow-up photos that may or may not...

Protest and government response in Hunan, written 9 hours ago, From the BBC: Protests in two Chinese cities The Chinese government is reported to have sent thousands of soldiers and police to quell unrest in the central province of Hunan. Up to 10,000 people took to the streets in Jishou to demand m...

Beijing Olympic Traffic Restrictions, written 2 days ago, With traffic on Beijing's previously overcrowded roads now moving freely there has been much debate about the idea of keeping the odds and evens vehicle use law in place permanently. Website forums are awash with tens of thousands of people d...

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