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Inside a Chinese Communist Party school
Al-Jazeera's Melissa Chan gives us a fascinating glimpse of student life at a Chinese Communist Party school.
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Photos: 20th Miss Asia Awards included pole-dancing, rubber chickens
20 contestants competed recently for the title of Miss Asia at the ATV 20th Miss Asia Awards in the tourist destination of Haikou in Hainan province, which included novel beauty pageant flourishes like pole-dancing, and a game show segment which involved wheelchairs, rubber chickens, and meat preparation by contestants wearing bikinis. 24-year-old Feng Xuebing (冯雪冰) of Beijing won the coveted Miss Asia crown, along with the "Perfect Figure Award". Feng's relevant data clock in at...
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8 industries America has lost to China
In 2010, China overtook Japan to become the world's second largest economy and most experts believe it will only be two or three decades before it becomes number one, officially making the U.S. it's bitch. As shown in a recent article by 24/7 Wall St, China has already surpassed the U.S. in a number of industries that America is traditionally considered to be the world leader - you can view them above.
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Newt Gingrich: I'd like to have an American on the moon before the Chinese get there
Two interesting soundbytes from US presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich from the GOP debate in Florida Thursday night:
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Crazy Crab: In 2012, Tank Man is a Tibetan monk
A new comic from Crazy Crab (疯蟹) comments on the current civil unrest in Tibet. Last week, 1 million portraits of Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, and Hu Jintao (the four supreme leaders whose political reputations have survived to the present day) were distributed throughout the Tibet Autonomous Region, to be placed inside schools, homes and temples. Crazy Crab might rightfully be deemed by other Chinese netizens to be Obsessed With Tiananmen Incident...
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Anti-U.S. media figure gets head stuck in escalator at D.C. airport
'Anti-American warrior' Sima Nan has lost his latest battle... with an escalator. The media figure, famous for his rants against the U.S., was visiting Washington (located in America) and managed to get his head stuck between an airport escalator rail and an approaching section of wall.
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Shanghai tourist killed crossing the road in Taiwan
Li Guanyi, a 29-year-old Shanghai resident, was hit and killed by a motorcycle while crossing the road in the Taiwanese city of Hualien (花莲) at 10pm on Tuesday. Li was attempting to cross the road to reach his hotel when the accident occurred. Despite efforts at resuscitation, Li was declared midnight before reaching a hospital. The apparent cause of death was initially determined to be intracranial bleeding, though investigations are still ongoing. The motorcyclist...
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Weekendist: More New Year's parties, Aussie Day, and Goddamned Shanghai's last weekend!
Annnd, the CNY celebrations continue on. STD has a Fortune Dragon New Year's Party, a celebration of Aussie day, some deeeeep house for you techno lovers plus a last chance to catch some art shows closing this weekend. And if that's still not enough, head over to our calendar for more.
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China unfairly ranked near bottom of the Press Freedom Index?
In the surprising 2011/2012 Press Freedom Index released by Reporters Without Borders, China almost skirts the bottom at number 174 out of 179 possible spots. This places them one measly notch higher than Iran (175), who is just coming off the 2009/2010 election protest involving rampant violence between the media and government, and 22 places below Iraq - the country responsible for the most reporter killings (151) in the last two decades. In an equally frightening bit of trivia, just two years ago the same slot was occupied by North Korea! Reporters Without Borders states:
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Weibo rumor: Sister Feng to star in Japanese porno?
A weib currently making the rumor mill rounds has it that Sister Feng (凤姐), a woman remarkable for the severity of her delusional demands on husbands-to-be being matched only by the severity of her overbite, is going to star in a Japanese AV film. The sagacious one has apparently signed up to star in "The Salvation of Beasts" (野兽的救赎), a film with a budget of over 10 million Japanese Yen (over 800,000RMB), which will...
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Photo of the Day: St Sophia Cathedral, Harbin
The St Sophia Cathedral in Harbin, China. Photo by @bbluerr on Instagram. Share your photos with us on the go via Instagram using the tag #shanghaiist....
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Watch: Lobsang Sangay's statement on recent shootouts on Tibetan protestors
Lobsang Sangay, Kalon Tripa of the Tibetan government-in-exile, comments on the recent shootouts on Tibetan protestors in the first few days of the Chinese New Year, and calls upon Tibetans to halt celebrations of Losar, the Tibetan New Year. Transcript after the jump...
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Festive New Year's list: Shanghaiist's top 10 movie dragons!
What better way to celebrate the Year of the Dragon than to countdown the top ten greatest movie dragons! Yeah, we couldn't think of anything either. Our criteria for which dragons make the list is pretty loose - basically encompassing dragons that either boast the most ass-kicking powers, have the best design, or leave the longest-lasting impressions. This list is by no means official, so we apologize if we leave out some of your favorite on-film fire-breathers.
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Chinese netizens react to NYT's investigation on Foxconn
"Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad", a new piece on the notorious tech manufacturer Foxconn by David Barboza and Charles Duhigg of the New York Times, was translated into Chinese and published in Caixin, one of the leading news weeklies in China. They've compiled and translated a list of the reactions by Chinese readers to the piece, which split along the usually lines of tacit acceptance and finger-pointing. The story of Apple is...
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Norway and China continue Liu Xiaobo catfight
In the latest escalation of handbags between Norway and China, a highly placed Norwegian diplomatic source has told a national newspaper that Norway could shut Beijing out of the Arctic Council.
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Second Sichuan protest results in more Tibetan deaths
The activist group Free Tibet reported on Monday that a Tibetan man had been killed, and thirty others wounded, after police opened fire on protesters in the Sichuan county of Luhuo (also known as Drango or Draggo to Tibetans). It has now been revealed that the following day a separate protest in neighbouring county Seda (Serthar) resulted in at least one fatality, with as many as five claimed by various Tibetan media organisations.
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Quote of the Day: Is the US becoming China's bitch?
"The title is deliberately provocative, I understand. It's meant to push people outside their comfort zone. We're inert. How do we snap people out of it? We helped create an export monster. We helped them because we developed an appetite for their goods. So we've kind of gotten in this dynamic of exports for finance-we will buy your cheap goods so we can stock our Wal-Mart shelves. They're moving up the value chain. And...
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Squat toilets prevalent in Asia better for your health?
Hainan province's recent decision to build a 1.28million RMB gold toilet may have seemed like a logical, future-proof investment at the time, but the latest health findings favour traditional toilets, suggesting that squatting is actually better for your health. The science is explained on the website Slate:
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Ai Weiwei doc receives rare standing ovation at Sundance
A new documentary following the Chinese artist/activist Ai Weiwei was met with rapturous applause at its Sundance Film Festival screening on Sunday.
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The center has shifted! Shanghai ranked world's number 1 metro economy
Shanghai has topped the Brookings Institution's list of the world's 200 largest metropolitan areas who collectively comprise almost half the world's economic activity.
