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The return of the nail houses

Well, the nail-houses have never gone anywhere, it’s more a matter of where the media has gone when they don’t cover them. I’m not saying there ought to be round the clock coverage, just that the phenomenon is and always … Continue reading

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Chinese MBA marriage meetups

MBA相亲会数百人参加 女性怨男性“素质低”(图)_网易新闻中心 via kwout Hmmm it seems that kwout is having problems with Chinese character encodings…oh well. The link is to an article about a marriage, dating meetup that paired some highly-educated lasses with some not so tall men. Some … Continue reading

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ATM scams in China…this is how they do it

银行因挂失电话冗长误事 赔偿客户1万元(图)_网易新闻中心 via kwout Never deposit a huge wad of money in the bank machine, at least not in Guangzhou, and definitely not in front of strange men that you don’t know. The scam is interesting: Mr. Shu puts the … Continue reading

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Guangzhou woman uses water buffalo to power her BMW

A Guangzhou woman was sick and tired of having her new beamer always break down, especially at higher speeds. Not getting the answers she wanted to hear at the local dealerships where she had just bought her car (price tag: … Continue reading

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China, universal values, democracy

Skimming the Chinese media, I’ve seen a lot of cyber ink spilled on the issue of a debate on “universal values” that erupted between the Southern (Nanfang) group newspapers (don’t know off the top of my head which one of … Continue reading

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Over 10,000 auditors at work on earthquake relief items/donations?

That’s what an article from Netease says. People are worried about where their donations go/went, so now there’s a whole army of accountants/auditors to make sure that the whole process is transparent and every fen is accounted for. Well, let’s … Continue reading

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Netease Photo series on south China floods

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