China: Netizens stand with the waitress who killed an official
Region: ChinaDeng Yujiao, a waitress in Hubei Province stabbed an official to death and injured another in resisting their sexual advances. Comments on the internet showed no sympathy with the dead official and generally support the 21-year-old girl, acclaiming that she is another Yang Jia who acted in response to an injustice. The dead man, Deng Guida, is the chief of county investment promotion office. He came with his two colle... more
Views: 954First Swine Flu Case in China Confirmed
Region: China
The first case of A/H1N1 swine flu in China was confirmed on Monday. The person was identified as 30 years old Chinese national that attends to a university in the U.S. The student contracted the disease in U.S. and flew from St. Louis via St. Paul, Minnesota, to Tokyo before boarding Northwest Airlines flight NW029 to Beijing Saturday. He also flew from the capital to Chengdu, the capital of western China's Sichuan p... more
Views: 2279China’s New Stimulus Plan: Mandatory Smoking!
Region: China
Afraid that the world economic crises would hit hard the local economy, the Hubei Province in Central China decided to do something about it: an economy stimulus plan based on cigarettes. That is right, cigarettes! Going against all the health care trends in the whole world, the local government issued a regulation determining quotas of cigarettes to be consumed by all public employees. To those that do not co... more
Views: 3959Tracking Swine Flu in China on Twitter
Region: ChinaBy John Kennedy Swine flu for China so far is a chance to reflect [zh] on how SARS was prevented from becoming a pandemic, and the steps being taken now in Mexico and elsewhere. Wang Jiadong has a post [zh] looking at how social media have been used to track the spread of outbreaks, from trending topics on the China Google to #hashmarks at the Twitter search engine, introducing the global Google swine flu map to his ... more
Views: 2619Teen Prostitute Ring Sparks Outrage in China
Region: ChinaBy Bob Chen The underage prostitution ring recently exposed in Xi-Shui County, Guizhou, has sparked nationwide fury. The ring involved several government officials and teachers as its customers and procured young girls, including those from primary school, as prostitutes. The case was first investigated last year when a victim's mother reported her daughter had been enticed into the ring and raped. After ... more
Views: 5049Do you remember the faces of your teachers?
Region: ChinaI see a humor about the question of the final examination. It is a college school final examination. There is only one question that is who is the teacher of this class, and the answer is four faces. This is just a humor from Japan but it is a common problem in the world. The college students don’t go to class and just prepare the exam from other students’ notes. He can get a pass and he can learn somethi... more
Views: 2391World is in hunger
Region: ChinaA fact I see from a magazine is that people in Haiti have to eat soil just to make them feel full. Then I remember another fact also seen from a magazine which is about China. A Chinese pupil from a poor village was taken to a city, and when facing the dinner that child said surprisingly “I have had two meals in a day, why do I need the third?” The truth is that when we waste the food, most people in the w... more
Views: 3051Two pupils killed by their classmate in China
Region: ChinaI saw the news from a newspaper of Hong Kong. This happened in the Shandong province of China. A pupil, the killer, wanted to buy a MP4 but without money. Then he cheated his two classmates to a room and killed them one by one. How he killed them? He hit the back of their head and took their lives by a knife. Then he took all the money and buried them and the knife. How much money did he get from this very severe murde... more
Views: 2076First payment received from Groundreport
Region: ChinaI have been in Groundreport for about a month and published 18 articles. Today I received my first payment from Groundreport, $1.73. This is the payment for February and March of 2009. But as I have only been here for a month, I am very happy to receive my payment so quickly. I must say Groundreport is the greatest site I have ever seen: accept worldwide reporters, publish news and reports immediately, help the repor... more
Views: 244610 Months After the Earthquake, Chengdu Eyes Exhibition Economy
Region: China
Nearly 10 months after the Sichuan Wenchuan earthquake, Chengdu, the provincial capital city that functions as the headquarters of the massive reconstruction operations, which was also affected by the earthquake, is planning to host a series of exhibitions and conventions to boost its exhibition economy, a significant player in the city's service sector, hoping to spur domestic demands in line with the central governme... more
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