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Over on ChinaHush there’s a pretty astounding photo series about pollution in China. Somehow it surprised me that they were taken by a local photographer, because typically it’s the foreign press who tend to display China’s dirty laundry like this. Or at least, that’s what I’ve come to expect. Read the rest of this entry »

Here’s an interesting story from China Digital Times about a student from Xinjiang and how he was denied service from a net bar and a hotel in Shenyang.

When I spoke to Ilham Mehmut, president of the Uighur Association of Japan, last week he told me that Uighurs all over China were not permitted access to net bars. You can’t even send snail mail there, he said. I was skeptical as to whether or not this was true, but this story (above) from CDT corroborates it. Service denied based on ethnicity. That is not cool. Read the rest of this entry »

Now that I’m here in Japan, watching the latest happenings in China is still pretty fascinating. Like many people, I was shut out from CCTV’s live video broadcast as it was little better than a choppy slide show on this side of the water. But from what I hear, most people weren’t too impressed by the CCTV coverage, especially the Japan haters who must have been mortified to see Toshiba make an appearance : Read the rest of this entry »