Ok. So I’m at a bar a few weeks ago, and I meet what we call “an old China hand.” This guy was from Canada too, and had been in China for about 10 years. We got to talking, and of course - as us laowais often do - we started comparing […]

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Well it seems I’ve been tagged in the latest internet meme (i.e. online tag/sars) floating around the blogomasphere. Chris over at Eyes East has apparently gotten himself drunk of his titties and tagged me as one of his favorite 5 Thinking Bloggers. If any of you have yet to check out Chris’s blog, […]

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My Weekly China Links
Here are some China-related links that stand out from this week:
Ur-ine Big Trouble Now!
From Hangzhou: Some Chinese reporters, in an effort to expose how some hospitals over-diagnose for profit, submitted tea instead of urine samples. Diagnosis? Six out of ten hospitals visited diagnosed the patients as having infected urinal tracts. […]

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Well it looks like the youtube wars are heating up, with the team of bullies NBC, U-NewsCorp, FOX, MySpace, MSN, Yahoo, and AOL teaming up to fight the youtube/google threat.
Meanwhile, despite the fact that I can’t get to see a single episode of the Daily Show on youtube anymore (only tiny bullshit clips) — Chinese […]

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