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China has a big old traffic jam

August 24th, 2010
Construction has caused a 60-mile, 10-day (and counting) traffic jam in northern China. Some people have been stuck for 5 days, and locals are taking advantage of the situation. Though there were no reports of road rage violence, drivers complained about price-gouging by villagers who were their only source of food and water. A bottle [...]
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Temp work being white

June 15th, 2010
Some Chinese companies hire white people to represent them (and to do nothing else). Here’s a story from someone hired to do “quality control”. For the next few days, we sat in the office swatting flies and reading magazines, purportedly high-level employees of a U.S. company that, I later discovered, didn’t really exist. We were [...]
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Jackie Chan Isn’t Sure China Should Be Free

April 19th, 2009
Yikes. Jackie Chan — heretofore, undeniably awesome — thinks perhaps China is better off without freedom: “I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not,” Chan said. “I'm really confused now. If you're too free, you're like the way Hong Kong is now. It's very chaotic. Taiwan is also chaotic.” Chan added: “I'm [...]
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Dolphins Save Chinese Ship from Pirates… Says China

April 19th, 2009
Thousands of dolphins blocked the suspected Somali pirate ships when they were trying to attack Chinese merchant ships passing the Gulf of Aden, the China Radio International reported on Monday. … The suspected pirates ships stopped and then turned away. The pirates could only lament their littleness before the vast number of dolphins. The spectacular [...]
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Commuting by Zipline

February 24th, 2009
In China, a bridge that was destroyed in the May 2008 earthquake was never repaired. So the locals use a zipline to cross the river.
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