china news

Starting tomorrow, we will be observing the National Day holiday, which confusingly lasts seven days.
Wait, let me back up. This deserves some explanation, and I know you care about things like this. A simple breakdown of the facts here should straighten you out:
Next Saturday and Sunday count as "holiday days" in most people’s minds, even [...]
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Been waiting on this one for a while now:
A Chinese farmer who claimed to have taken photos of a rare tiger was sentenced to two and a half years in prison on Saturday for faking the pictures, a court official and state media said.
Zhou Zhenglong was tried for fraud in Xunyang County People’s Court in [...]
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Slightly off topic here on a weekend.
First, it was George Carlin, my all-time favorite comedian, who died recently. Now we have my all-time favorite actor, Paul Newman, who succumbed to cancer last week.
Rest in peace.

Not only was Newman tops in my book for a variety of films, but Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ranks [...]
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The rest of the world, rightly, doesn't want anything to do with Chinese drinks.

From Bloomberg:

Allow me to be blunt. This argument is complete tripe:

It had been some people’s view that the Olympics, both closely related with Western countries in terms of its ancient origins and its modern revival, would possibly carry Western cultural values to China. However, to their surprise, the Western formula was not copied during the Games.
In [...]
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