Category Archives: Internet

Blogger babe T-shirt endorsement

Posted on 2005-03-29 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Xiaxue is a blogger in Singapore. She writes girly banter in Singapore English (lots of la’s and wah’s). Some of it is racy, such as the post excerpted below about how girls can measure penises using their hands: *To the … Continue reading →

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Serve the People: an excerpt

Posted on 2005-03-29 by Jeremy Goldkorn

The ESWN blog has translated Chapter 6 of the banned novella, Serve the People. Here is an excerpt: Everything was heaven sent.  The heavens had arranged them to lock themselves inside No. 1 court and they could do whatever they … Continue reading →

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Petition to keep Tsinghua Shuimu BBS open

Posted on 2005-03-28 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Somebody has organized an online petition to Hu Jintao to keep Tsinghua University’s Shuimu BBS open. The content of the petition is here (Chinese only). – Link via Shanghai media / economy blog China Herald.

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Bird flu in North Korea

Posted on 2005-03-28 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Xinhua’s English website has reported that a bird flu outbreak has been confirmed in North Korea. There is nothing on the state-owned news agency’s Chinese language website about this. The English report quotes the Korean Central News Agency quoting North … Continue reading →

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Police flowers with guns

Posted on 2005-03-28 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Amidst reports on dodgy Japanese text books, Taiwanese seccessionists, visiting KMT officials and government conferences, Xinhua’s Chinese website has published a photo essay about ‘police flowers’, (i.e. police women) in action as peacekeepers in Haiti and Kosovo, and in training … Continue reading →

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Kathmandu-Lhasa direct bus service May 1

Posted on 2005-03-28 by Jeremy Goldkorn

From the New Kerala website: Kathmandu, March 27 : An agreement between Nepal and China to start direct bus services between Kathmandu and Lhasa, capital of Tibet, will be implemented from May 1, as per schedule. A 14-member Chinese delegation … Continue reading →

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Corpse Network

Posted on 2005-03-26 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Xinhua has published a report titled “Hacker arrested for manipulating 100,000 computers“. The report is datelined “Guilin, March 25”, but describes the arrest of a hacker in Tangshan, Hebei Province. According to the report, the Ministry of Public Security’s Public … Continue reading →

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Tang Jiali nude photos

Posted on 2005-03-25 by Jeremy Goldkorn

At the same time that the the Department of Culture is banning mildy pornographic network games, search engine Baidu reveals that actress, dancer and minor celebrity Tang Jiali (汤加丽) is currently the top search request on its list of “beautiful women”

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Department of Culture bans porno games

Posted on 2005-03-25 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Yesterday various websites and newspapers reported that the Department of Culture had banned Sexy Beach (性感沙滩) and Sniff Work (臭作) and four other network games because of “large quantities of obscene, pornographic illegal content which breaks the laws of the … Continue reading →

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University BBS Explodes With Snark

Posted on 2005-03-25 by admin

The news about the clampdown on university BBSes, first mentioned on Danwei over the weekend, has made it to the Washington Post, which is running an article today that gives a good overview of what’s been happening. The announcement of … Continue reading →

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