Dutch artist Daan Roosegaarde says he is to build and test an "electronic vacuum cleaner" that could such the smog out of Beijing's polluted skies. 🔗 网页链接 Gizmodo via @billbishop& #039;s Sinocism blog展开全文
#Sunday Soundtrack# This week's selection of new music: "Go Go Nucleo For Science" - We Are The Physics 🔗 网页链接 For more read my Musings on Music blog on Douban: 🔗 网页链接展开全文
Haoertong Kindergarten in Shanghai has gender-specific education -- boys do kung fu, play sport and have sand battles; girls are trained in "gentleness, carefulness and grace," the school says. http://t.cn/zRLsaIt Will this really solve the "crisis of confidence" among boys?
Geese go on patrol in Xinjiang. "We used to keep them for their eggs and meat, but in June we were told to buy more of them and let them guard the station." 🔗 网页链接展开全文
Yu Hua, one of China's best-known authors, defends his latest novel - The Seventh Day - after it was attacked by critics, who said it is cold and even Internet fast food. "I feel the cruelness of reality," he says, "and I write equally cruelly." 🔗 网页链接展开全文
Man in Guangzhou tries to smuggle turtle onto plane by hiding it in a hamburger 🔗 网页链接 via SCMP (Photo: "Turtle Burger" by flickr user 'flaunted')展开全文
Magnitude-6.6 earthquake strikes Gansu at 07:45 am on Monday. Update: 2 people have died, many more injured -- QQ Weibo of Minxian County Info Office. One hundred firefighters have been dispatched from Lanzhou. Rolling coverage: 🔗 网页链接展开全文
Chinese killed in Asiana Airlines crash in San Francisco named: Ye Mengyuan, 16, and Wang Linjia, 17. Survivors describe terrifying ordeal: "I mumbled a prayer for a safe landing and ... I heard an almighty noise." 🔗 网页链接展开全文
Xuanyu Zhong -- reportedly the son of a Chinese government official -- convicted in UK of sexual assault on girl after he spent months downloading date rape pornography 🔗 网页链接 via DailyMail展开全文
Wealthy but illiterate businessman opens free library in Xinjiang mall for shoppers to browse, relax & eat snacks. I just want young people to get into the habit of reading," says Tursontohut Wushor. 🔗 网页链接展开全文
UK fire cheifs call for urgent review of use of Chinese lanterns after evidence one causing a blaze at a plastics recycling plant that hurt 10 firefighters 🔗 网页链接 via The Guardian展开全文
#Sunday Soundtrack# This week's new music selection, from my Musings on Music blog. “Punch Drunk Loving” - James Kelly 🔗 网页链接 More on Douban: 🔗 网页链接展开全文
Excellent piece in the @经济观察报英文版 about the way some Chinese media effectively steal info/reports from bloggers and micro-bloggers and then present it as its own work. "A Taste of China's New Media" 🔗 网页链接展开全文
Widow of Qian Zhongshu scores early win in her legal battle to stop Sungari Auction House from selling her husband's private letters 🔗 网页链接 What is strange is the claim that letters can be classed as "works" under Chinese copyright law.展开全文
Mystery package of white powder prompts US consulate closure in Guangzhou. "Visa services will only resume once the incident has been fully investigated," a spokesman said. 🔗 网页链接展开全文 原微博
"How Japan treats its past will decide its future," Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said on Tuesday in response to Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto's statement that the Japanese military's "comfort women" policy in World War II was "necessary". 🔗 网页链接展开全文
Liu Tienan, deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission, is under investigation for suspected "grave discipline violations". 🔗 网页链接展开全文 原微博
With student fitness ever-worsening in China, 18 Shanghai middle schools are piloting a project that will see long-distance runs in the regularl physical tests replaced with 20-meter shuttle runs. "The long-distance run was pure hell," said one student. 🔗 网页链接展开全文
Campus violence: A spate of incidents, including the death of postgrad Huang Yang at Fudan Uni, and talk about the poisoning of Zhu Ling almost 20 years ago, has led psychologists to ask if Chinese students are getting enough mental support. 🔗 网页链接展开全文
【视频：微电影: Daughters 《女儿》】 🔗 网页链接 （分享自 @优酷网） When Maple, a quiet 14-year old girl living in rural China, is forced into an arranged marriage, she takes a dangerous path to free herself.展开全文
A great day for Myanmar. A free, unbias and fair print media can play a huge role in protecting human rights and other freedoms. //@外媒blogger: @顾磊CMC@閒士鄭 what do you think about the return of private newspaper in Myanmar?展开全文
