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Tag Archives: @altcat
Coked up bankers of Hong Kong
The financial community in Hong Kong is buried in white powder according to one friend of a Hong Kong-based banker who recently jumped to his death after a cocaine binge.
What is going on?
Posted in Crime, Financial crisis
Tagged @altcat, banking, cocaine, crime, drugs, financial industry, Hong Kong, investment, police
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Bubonic plague in China
New research points to China as the origins of medieval outbreaks of bubonic plague, and an interview with Dr Yu Dongzheng, director of animal to human infectious diseases at the National Centre for Disease Control in Beijing:
Royalty fee for a Chinese tweet: 25 yuan
A royalty check of 25 yuan for a reprinted Chinese tweet.
Posted in Intellectual Property
Tagged @altcat, Sina, weibo
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Google & CIA invested data mining company looks at Hu Jintao
A company invested in by both Google and the CIA analyzes Hu Jintao through his travel history.
Performing at funerals: professional mourners in Chongqing and Chengdu
A look at the funeral performance industry in Chongqing and Chengdu, from The Beijing News.
Posted in Music
Tagged @altcat, funerals, The Beijing News
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Faked credentials, a ghost-written autobiography, and a diploma mill
Did Tang Jun fake his resume to falsely claim he holds a PhD from Cal Tech? Fang Zhouzi is on the case!
Posted in Scholarship and education
Tagged @altcat, academic fraud, Fang Zhouzi, Tang Jun
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Crowd-sourced cheating on the 2010 gaokao
A student in Sichuan seeks help with the ancient Chinese section of this year’s college entrance exam — while the test is going on!
Posted in Scholarship and education
Tagged @altcat, Beijing Times, cheating, exams, gaokao
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The day Ai Weiwei learned about Twitter
Artist and reformed journalist Chris Gill has posted a recording of an interview with Ai Weiwei to his website Shanghai Eye.
During the interview, Gill introduces Ai to Twitter, apparently for the first time. Ai is now China’s most famous and probably most active Twitter user.
Posted in Art, Internet culture
Tagged @altcat, Ai Weiwei, art, Chris Gill, Twitter
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Global Times, China World, South Beauty and Zhang Ziyi
Scandal sheet The Global Times recently offended and delighted different groups of people in Beijing with an advice column by the pseudonymous Alessandro, who answered a question from a “reader” named S. Natch: “If unused for a long time, can … Continue reading
Posted in Newspapers
Tagged @altcat, Global Times, South Beauty, Wang Xiaofei, Zhang Ziyi
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Soy sauce man III: Manager Zhang and the shopping guides
A story about Li, a Chinese university graduate who became a soy sauce businessman