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Slaves in China

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 06:50:24 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Happenning in the 21st century

Chinese police rescue brick-kiln ‘slaves'

The Chinese media have estimated that 1,000 children – some as young as eight years old – were drugged or kidnapped near train And bus stations and then sold to factory owners for as little as 500 yuan (about $70).

The children were forced to work as many as 14 hours a day in cruel conditions with little food. Some were beaten by their bosses. Others were burned by hot bricks as they worked. Some of the children have spent up to seven years in slavery.

Another worker, also mentally handicapped, was beaten to death with a hammer last year. The workers were forced to sleep on the ground and were not permitted to wash or change their clothes. Their bodies were covered with bruises and burns from the hot bricks.

The factory was owned by the son of the local Communist Party boss. He employed five guards and six dogs to prevent the workers from fleeing.

Tags: brick, factory, slaves, children, china

30 tons of molten steel flood room, killing 32 in China

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:56:18 GMT

clipped by: zephyrgong

Clip Source: english.sina.com

SHANGHAI, Apr. 18 -- Thirty tons of molten steel spilled from a falling ladle, killing 32 workers and injuring two in a Liaoning steelmaking plant this morning, Xinhua news agency reported.

The 32 victims were working in a room away from where the ladle was being operated when the accident happened at 7:45am in the plant owned by Qinghe Special Steel Co Ltd in Tieling City in Northeast China's Liaoning Province.

The ladle suddenly dropped when being moved to a new location, and 30 tons of molten steel spilled out and poured into the room five meters away, killing all the people inside.

Two operators were slightly injured and escaped from the scene by themselves, the report said.

Those responsible for the incident were under supervision, the report said.

Vice provincial governor Li Jia and vice provincial Party secretary Luo Lin reachedhave gone to the scene to guide the rescue work.

But the rescuer work was hindered by the heat from the molten steel, the report said.

Tags: 32 victims, china

Property Rights: China's most incredible holdout

Sat, 24 Mar 2007 03:12:49 GMT

clipped by: zephyrgong

Clip Source: www.danwei.org

Dingzihu (钉子户) is a Chinese word that means a household or person who refuses to vacate their home to make way for real estate development. Virtual China translates the word as 'nail house' because "they stick out like nails in an otherwise modernized environment".

A photograph of the house in question has been circulating on the Chinese Internet during the last few days. It's posted on the popular Tianya forum: The coolest nail house in history.

The Tianya post has hundreds of comments representing many different points of view about the Property Law, the evils of state- and privately-owned real estate development, and the the rights of tenants.

The promising new blog Peering into the Interior has a translation of an interview with the owner of the nail house, Ms Wu Ping: Interview with China's Most Incredible Holdout

Also on Peering into the Interior: Media coverage emboldens nailhouse owners.

Tags: china, controversial, property law

China Stutdents Riot. 25th Oct.

Tue, 31 Oct 2006 01:33:16 GMT

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Clip Source: xgongshe.org

Thousands of university students rioted in eastern China this week, officials and students said on Wednesday, as the police chief called for greater efforts to tame rising unrest. Students from Jiangxi province's Clothing Vocational College marched through campus on Monday after state media reported that school authorities had deceived new students about their eventual qualifications and issued fake diplomas. "They (students) committed extreme acts such as vandalising and looting," an officer at the Jiangxi provincial police department told Reuters by telephone. "Anti-riot police have been stationed on campus to maintain order."

Tags: china, education, riots, students

Chinese professor strips in art class

Fri, 29 Sep 2006 01:47:12 GMT

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Clip Source: www.cnn.com

BEIJING, China (Reuters) -- A Chinese culture ministry official has denounced a university professor who stripped naked in front of students and teachers during an art class, a Chinese newspaper reported on Tuesday.

Mo Xiaoxin, a 56-year-old assistant professor at a university in Changzhou, in eastern Jiangsu province, shocked students by stripping during a lecture on "body art" to emphasize the "power" of the body and to "challenge taboos," the Beijing News said.

"There are no taboos in the field of research, but to do this directly in the course of teaching is obviously not appropriate," the paper quoted Tian Junting, a culture ministry official, as saying.

The lecture was part of a course within a newly established "human body art and culture" research institute -- China's first -- at Jiangsu Teachers University of Technology, the paper said.

Mo arranged for four other models, including a man and woman in their 70s or 80s, and a younger couple, to strip naked in front of the class while he lectured, the paper said.

During the nearly hour-long class, Mo also invited students to take their clothes off.

"Professor Mo appeared emotionally excited at the time," the paper quoted a student as saying. "As he was talking, he undid his belt and took off his pants, and stood naked in the middle of the lecture podium."

The naked lecture made many of the 30 or so students feel "uneasy," the paper said. "Some kept their eyes trained on the ceiling, some awkwardly bowed their heads and stared at the ground".

Tian, the culture ministry official, said the course was still in a "research phase" and it wasn't yet known whether it had produced "positive or negative effects."

Tags: china, professor, strip

Who's the web killer?

Tue, 01 Aug 2006 03:37:24 GMT

clipped by: zephyrgong
clipper's remarks: I'm still not sure about that if it really be blocked at all.
What I'm sure is that some of my friends and I cant access the site.

And I suggest in the next version of Windows, Vista, Microsoft should put an auto startup proxy service like Tor in, because I’m afraid one day when they block everything, we Chinese have to surfing through proxy.

Clip Source: en.lifevine.org

Who’s the web2.0 killer?

0 Comments Published August 1st, 2006 in China

Who’s the web2.0 killer? Nobody but Chinese government.

After blocking WikipediA, Blogspot, Technorati, etc, Feedburner, another wonderful web service may be blocked in some areas of China.

This morning when I got up and want to burn my feed of my English Blog through Feedburner, I suddenly found that I cant access the site. I tried TOR (an anonymous internet communication system) later and everything is fine. Then I asked some of my friends in China. Some of them are in the same trouble, other lucky guys have no such problem (obviously I’m not one in those lucky). So I cant say that our Great FireWall has already blocked Feedburner, but I’m sure that some ISP did.

Technorati Tags: censorship, Feedburner, the Great FireWall

Tags: feedburner, censorship, great firewall of china

Elves in Chinese folklore

Thu, 13 Jul 2006 04:06:13 GMT

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clipper's remarks: They're top 10 widely spreadly elves in Chinese folklore,sorry it's too hard to translate their names to English,but the Chinese names are bellow:

狐仙(Fox spirits),龙女,夜叉(Yaksha),判官,牛头(Ox heads),马面(horse faces ),二郎(Erlang Shen ),七郎,刑天(Xing Tian),辟邪

I hope I can have time and ability to do some short description to each of them.There's already have a detailed list about Chinese mythology on Wikipedia(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_mythology), most of them have well described,but I think have some pictures will make more sense.

Clip Source: cache.tianya.cn

Tags: elf, folklore, artwork, china

My Place on Clipmarks:Shenzhen,GD(China)

Mon, 03 Jul 2006 08:16:03 GMT

clipped by: zephyrgong
clipper's remarks: Another concrete forest.
Like any other big cities,a mixture of good and evil.

Clip Source: www.tianya.cn

Clip Source: flickr.com

Tags: my place on clipmarks, shenzhen, guang dong, china

Bus Stop

Thu, 29 Jun 2006 01:40:05 GMT

clipped by: zephyrgong
clipper's remarks: Thank our local government,Now we can proud to say that we have the longest bus queue (almost 3 KMs) in the world.

Damn it.

Clip Source: blog.lifevine.org

Tags: bus stop, traffic jam, shenzhen, china

Google's China Problem

Mon, 12 Jun 2006 05:55:41 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The article is really wonderful.

Clip Source: select.nytimes.com

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DISPLAYING FIRST 50 OF 8159 WORDS -For many young people in China, Kai-Fu Lee is a celebrity. Not quite on the level of a movie star like Edison Chen or the singers in the boy band F4, but for a 44-year-old computer scientist who invariably appears in a somber dark suit, he can really draw...

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Tags: censorship, google, china, baidu, internet

Phoenix Town,a wonderful place in China

Mon, 05 Jun 2006 02:23:31 GMT

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clipper's remarks: A small town located in the west of Hunan province,China.If you come to china,this's a place which is really worthy of travelling.

And there's a very famous bar which named The Magic of Phoenix in the town.People sharing their poems and love stories here,write down on papers and tacked on the wall.(as the last photo shows)

Clip Source: main.tianya.cn

Tags: phoenix town, travel, china

What's the matter with Gmail?

Fri, 02 Jun 2006 08:28:31 GMT

clipped by: zephyrgong
clipper's remarks: What's wrong there?

Clip Source: forums.lifevine.org

Today,June 2nd in China, I found I cant access to Gmail temporarily.Even in time I login,It always stop when loading.I knew searching some "sensitive words" in google may cause it temporarily down here,but I never thought this will happen on a mail service.This really makes me unhappy because I want to check my mails.

And I asked some of my friends about this,some of them have the same problem,some people cant access it at all,and there're still some didnt find this.So I dont know the reason exactly.

And the problem still there now.I dont think our goverment will block a mail service,I mean,I wish they wont.

Tags: gmail, google, china

"Not Buy House" Movement been banned

Wed, 31 May 2006 05:28:50 GMT

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clipper's remarks: People in big cities works a whole life,just for their own apartments.Furthermore, in China,when we say "buy a house",what we mean is buy the ownership for 70 years,after that the house has to give back to government.That's the policy.

Clip Source: www.williamlong.info

Shenzhen citizen Zou Tao started the "Not Buy House" movement, which has reportedly been banned. According to some BBS posts, Zou Tao was taken away by the public security bureau before he boarded a plane at Shenzhen Airport on May 11. Zou Tao's blog at Tianya has been shut down. The whereabouts of Zou Tao is unknown.

I have previously predicted such an outcome. It is a fool's dream to think that an individual's efforts can affect the huge interests with the real estate moguls and the government. Housing prices in Shenzhen and Beijing are extremely high, and there are signs that certain groups of buyers are speculating to take profit while the real estate developers are jacking up the prices. But there is nothing that we can do. Individually, we can refuse to buy. We can write essays to condemn this kind of behavior. But if we organize several tens of citizens to take certain actions against certain things, it would be anathema to the government. No matter how pure and good your motives are, you will be banned.

The "Not Buy House" movement originally appears to be directed against the bad real estate groups. In practice, it has touched upon the related interests of the government. Through auctioning off the land, the government obtains revenues. Obviously, the higher the price, the better off the government will be. If the developers have higher costs, they will seek higher returns for which the government will receive high tax revenues. Under this win-win situation for the government and developers, it was a fool's dream for Zou Tao to hope that housing prices will come down.

Zou Tao appears to have left Shenzhen now. If he does not want to leave, his life may be threatened. Shenzhen changed him, or else he should not have been living in Shenzhen, a city between heaven and hell ...

Tags: shenzhen, china, house, housing prices

Releasing Mission Impossible III in China may be a Mission Impossible

Fri, 19 May 2006 15:50:44 GMT

clipped by: zephyrgong
clipper's remarks: Our government is really sensitive and conservative.

Clip Source: forums.lifevine.org

Mission Impossible III may not be released in China

We can see a cell phone number written on the wall through the picture which from Mission Impossible III,we also see there's a Chinese word beside the number.Well,this is a kind of "service" here in China:Certificate for sale.Advertises a company/man that sells fake certificates that employees or citizens in China might need. Among the certificates on offer from this particular company are: hukou (mainland household registration card), marriage or divorce certificates, Hong Kong or Macau ID cards, birth certificates, driver's licences, degrees, M Phils, and accounting and engineering certificates. In fact, the guy running this outfit can print you up pretty much anything you want.

A few days ago I posted a clips here on Clipmarks.This kind of advertisements is really a big problem for our big cities.

It said there's about 40 minutes of the movie was filmed in Shanghai.Government thought these pictures gives a undeveloped,poor and unenlightened expressions of Shanghai to audience(Of course when they said that they claim that are audience's thought, in fact our really opinion is that just a movie,furthermore,what it shows are reality,every city has its bad side).So Mission Impossible III may not have a public release in China,and we find a excuse to buy pirate or download it though internet.

Last edited by zephyrgong : Today at 10:44 PM.

Tags: mission impossible, movies, china

Live.com has be blocked in China

Fri, 05 May 2006 02:16:44 GMT

clipped by: zephyrgong
clipper's remarks: If they want to blcok everything,why dont they cut off the internet connection

Clip Source: forums.lifevine.org

After Technorati has been blocked here.Live.com may be blocked else in China.

My friends and I cant access live.com since a week ago.And people also cant use any windows live! services,such as live mail,they will get a 404 error when log in their live passport.

Tags: great firewall of china, microsoft, live