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Local official: Belgian journalists, villagers scuffle in China’s AIDS zone
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ZHENGZHOU, Dec. 2 (Xinhua) — An investigation is in progress into an incident in which three Belgian journalists scuffled with villagers in central China’s AIDS zone on Nov. 27, a provincial government spokesman said on Tuesday. [.....]
      

Tom Van de Weghe and his crew were attacked in a rural area of Henan province while interviewing people suffering from AIDS, according to the Foreign Correspondents Club of China on Thursday, according to boxun.com.
According to a statement on the Foreign Correspondents Club website,
Van de Weghe, his cameraman and assistant were beaten up and robbed [...]

JR: Hermit the Taoist Dragonfly is the authoritative expert on issues like Buddhism, Falun Gong, India, imperialism, the righteousness of the Chinese Communist Party, science, Taiwan, Taoism, Tibet, and the calamitous way Western media steer otherwise happy, nice and peaceful people into terrorist madness. Thank you very much for bestowing this opportunity for an interview [...]

Sing Tao Daily (Hong Kong, UK edition) opened on Friday with the headline that mainland China was the world’s best place to invest (全球最佳投资地), according to KPMG. The article stated that China was followed by the US, India, Singapore, and Hong Kong. The ranking is based on a survey conducted by KPMG from September to October. [...]

Zut alors, Sing Victor! Eef zis eesn’t the chiquest and ‘ottest fanpage about Zhang Ziyi (章子怡 the spoiled-brat starlet) I ‘ave ever zeen!
Yes, she’s ‘ot.
But Net Nanny is still much much ‘otter.
And the second-’ottest fanpage for Zhang Ziyi is ‘ere.
      

About Barack Obama
I’ve been passionately interested since early in the primaries. I started writing about Senator Obama and supporting him, I guess, quite early. Partly because he is such an intelligent and cool cucumber. I thought the way he responded early on to the Pastor Wright affair was quite extraordinary. Normally what happens with politicians these [...]

Zaobao.com, Singapore:
After a farewell ceremony led by the hosting Straits Exchange Foundation’s chairman Jiang Pin-kun (江丙坤), Chen Yunlin (陈云林) has returned to Beijing this morning. In the very much Chinese-style Yuanshan Hotel, they hugged each other. It’s the first time in history that the SEF and ARATS leaders came together in Taiwan, which marks a more institutionalized [...]