OK, so this is not terribly interesting in itself but just interesting tidbit, especially for those that love animals!
You can see more of the pictures here.

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The debate rages on, with many Wenchuan local residents, according to a survey, inclined
to get out of there while they can. This article claims that out of 768 people surveyed, over 90% of them wanted to leave and rebuild their homes and their lives somewhere else. There’s a passage that’s particular revealing as it talks [...]

This little piggy made it through days and days after the earthquake without dying, mostly by licking coal,
which had some moisture on it. And of course, he’s now a celebrity. These are some nice pictures of him/her.

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The Ministry of Education in China is getting around to revising its code of ethics of teachers, and this time around they are thinking about including “protecting students,” a move no doubt in part spurred by the memory of teachers protecting students during the Wenchuan earthquake. Some who have argued against such a move say [...]

So it looks more serious than I had thought…still you wonder what the fuck people are protesting about. Chinese people are really oversensitive, I mean Kungfu Panda is not much different than Mulan or anything of that sort…I don’t know why they are protesting all of the sudden. Of course, with the earthquake, everyone is [...]

This Xinhua article comes up with some interesting statistics: in the last 300 years, there were 50 natural disasters that claimed over 100,000 lives, and of those, 26 were in China, with the total number of dead numbering 103 million, 68% of the total amount.
Over 1/10 of the earthquakes happen in China, as well [...]

So, as one might expect, there are some calls from people on the web to boycott the movie Kungfu Panda, an animated film about a panda that learns kung-fu and saves the day. First off, I’m not 100 percent sure whether this is purely an expression of popular sentiment or an official pronouncement, but according [...]

I was reading netease and came across a link to a Blue Cross China report about post-traumatic stress disorder among the survivors of the earthquake. Well, I don’t know if what they are talking about necessarily meets the clinical definition (and I don’t have a clue what that is anyway), but more about general symptoms [...]

The Juyuan Middle School was one of the “worst” tragedies of the Wenchuan earthquake: the entirely school collapsed and took the lives of the hundreds of people that were inside it. Recent media attention in China has been focused on why certain buildings managed to stay upright while others completely collapsed. Shoddy construction, lack of [...]

This interview is with an outspoken education official from Sichuan named Lin Qiang and was featured in a recent issue of Southern Weekend, a newspaper based out of Guangzhou, known (in the past), for some more independent, hard-hitting news and coverage of events.
Lin Qiang had been chosen to be a torch-bearer and was also invited [...]