You’ll want to skip restaurants bearing the official Olympic logo, for dogmeat is off the menu. This is probably just a cosmetic regulation as most ordinary restaurants in Beijing don’t serve dogmeat dishes anyway.
After warning other countries not to politicize the summer
Olympic Games in Beijing, China has come under criticism from the International Olympic Committee for doing just that. About time . . .
While browsing the international news board at Net Ease, I came across this post, an apparent cut and paste of a January 2008 Hong Kong newspaper story about a Seoul National University vice-president and team of history scholars holding a press conference to showcase three years of historical research proving that Chairman Mao was, in [...]
Captured by Chinese soldiers in North Korea in December 1950, 18-year-old Army Sgt. Richard G. Desautels, of Shoreham, Vt., was taken to China and shuffled around several POW camps, never accounted for by the Chinese at the end of the Korean War. Other returned POWs reported to Army interrogators that they had seen [...]
It did not take long for authorities in China to get tough with grieving parents from the earthquake. So “splitism” is also losing your children to poor construction.
Taking a bit of a break from questionable caricatures and beef mudslinging, General Electric Company has put GE Appliance on the block. The American Chaebol (although without the mafia style management) is trying to streamline their operations so to look more “sexier” to Wall Street. The feeling on the street is that GE Appliance is [...]
Just when you thought ESL could not get more funny, Mike Meyer (NY Times) has a funny tale of learning English in Beijing and how it is part of a drive for English literacy for the Olympics.
Joshua at One Free Korea has put up a very detailed post on the recent strengthened military presence on both sides of the Chinese-North Korean border. One the North Korean side, snipers and nighttime floodlights are aimed at deterring the growing numbers of desperately hungry North Koreans from crossing the border safely. On [...]
Among a Chinese blog collection of photos of Beichuan near the epicenter of the Sichuan earthquake is a sad, sad photo of a deceased girl with one leg protruding from a pancaked stack of concrete that used to be Beichuan Middle School (note: a Chinese middle school is the equivalent to a North American high [...]
Sunny Lee at Asia Times writes about how the Borg of China™ may have shown Koreans that they are absolute pussies when it comes down to enthusiastic displays of nationalistic protest.
Per the article:
South Korea’s reputation as the world’s unparalleled bastion of nationalism and master of all forms of street protests - ranging from physical confrontations with [...]
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Also, as has been noted in the comment section, the earthquake happend yesterday afternoon.
Original post: China was just hit by a huge earthquake (CNN):
An earthquake powerful enough to be felt Monday throughout most of China killed and trapped thousands of [...]
The WaPo reports that U.S. Commission of Fine Arts is apparently irked at a proposed statue of Martin Luther King that critics feel is just a tad too Stalinist for their tastes:
A powerful federal arts commission is urging that the sculpture of Martin Luther King Jr. proposed for a memorial on the Tidal Basin be [...]
John Kennedy of Globalvoicesonline.org has posted interesting look at a Chinese exchange troll, allegedly living here in Korea, who claims that Koreans are now persecuting Chinese students — the same ones who were only trying to protect the “sacred flame” (sure). While this poster’s grasp on reality is blatantly distorted, some of the Chinese [...]
From a Chosun Ilbo story on North Korean women making regular trips across the river to sell sex to Chinese villagers:
또 이 같은 이유 때문에 최근 북한에서는 아들보다 딸을 더 선호한다고 한다. 이 여성은 “북조선 인구 비율은 여자가 많은데 여자들의 살림가치가 높아서 딸을 좋아한다”며 “북조선에서는 여자들이 없으면 못 벌어 먹으며 이 때문에 북조선 남자들은 집 [...]
You can experience this Korean delicacy vicariously at the Shangaiist. If mollusks could scream, I don’t think this dish would be so popular. On second thought, maybe it would be even more so.
Daai Tou Lam Diary is a quiet C-blog written by an American resident of Hong Kong. As he is fluent in Chinese, his posts often contain translations from the local Hong Kong media, and he is very critical of the Chinese government. A recent post on the Carrefour boycott drew this conclusion:
As anyone [...]
I am now convinced that Joshua at One Free Korea has a file of pithy quotes saved on his computer ready to whip out for any occasion.
Today’s evidence, along with some background:
President Lee, it should be remembered, has made an issue of restoring the public order that Roh had allowed to erode. If he lets [...]
The Foreign Ministry says it will tighten entry visa regulations for Chinese students entering Korea:
“We are going to talk with the related authorities over steps to toughen the issuance of entry visas for Chinese students and other Chinese people,” said Moon Tae-young, a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
The tough stance comes [...]
The Hankyoreh talked with Chinese students about Sunday’s ugliness, and found that while most expressed regret about the violence, they also felt they were being unfairly singled out:
Concerning the violent situation that took place during the Olympic torch relay on April 27, Chinese students and other Chinese generally expressed “regret.” But they also protested that [...]
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