http://www.shanghaiist.com/archives/2006/10/14/paradise_on_ear.php
Paradise on earth by 2020?


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http://www.shanghaiist.com/archives/2006/10/11/singleparent_ad.php
Single-Parent Adoption vs Gay Adoption


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http://www.shanghaiist.com/archives/2006/10/11/the_most_unlike.php
The most unlikely birthplace of progressive Islam?


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1. Hilarious Simpsons episode on China. Synopsis here.

2. I haven't been able to access Singapore-based Straits Times all day.
Turns out this was the reason!

A test with other major Singapore news portals shows Singapore's largest Chinese language daily,
Lianhe Zaobao and www.AsiaOne.com (operated by Singapore Press Holdings
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Being away from Singapore this General Elections, I have had to rely on the internet as my sole source of information on how the hustings have proceeded. Apart from the Straight Times, I have had to rely on blogs such as SgRally.blogspot.com and ElectionRally.blogspot.com, which have posted an incredible amount of video clips of opposition rally ( Read more... )

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The ins and outs of the cat story have finally been uncovered. Read it here. As in the case of the Fudan Cat Torturer, nobody is going to get hauled to court, because of the absence of animal protection laws. So, you see, China is not all that lawless (how ironic). Nobody can haul you to court if they can't find something in the law to pin you down ( Read more... )

In yet another classic illustration of the Chinese propensity to dichotomise everything in the world into Chinese vs Non-Chinese, and to see a conspiracy to denigrate the wonderful people of China in every matter, a large number of Chinese netizens have expressed the disbelief that this could be a Chinese woman. "The Japanese are all psychos. ( Read more... )

Yesterday I posted some pictures of some crazed Chinese animal-crushing women, who have riled netizens all across China in the last 2 weeks. One of the women has her pictures now plastered all over Chinese media, along with the least obscene pictures of her poor victims. One businessperson has offered RMB 500,000 (= SGD100,000 = EUR50,000) for her ( Read more... )