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Archive for the ‘China in General’ Category

Google blocked in China mainland?

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

From some friends I just received the message, that Google seems to be blocked within China mainland While You can still access google.CN from any place within China, the normal version google.COM seems to be blocked in several parts of China. I've read some China forums and it seems that ...

Green dam censoring software threatens Internet users

Friday, June 12th, 2009

In China's never ending quest to control the Internet, they spend a whooping 40 million yuan on a software called Green dam: 绿坝-花季护航. to check the content of websites and block anything that might do harm to a user. Namely pornography and violence. The software seems to be a failure ...

One year until World Expo 2010 Shanghai

Sunday, May 24th, 2009

There's a little less than year time until the World Expo 2010, which will take place in the Chinese megacity Shanghai. The doors open at May 1 until October 31, 2010. This is an good opportunity for You to start learning Chinese. The Chinese language will have more importance in the ...

Sex is vulgar, ill-minded and misleading

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

My last article was about a Sex theme park in Chongqing. The sudden media attention of this place spread into the government head offices of the city as well. Guess what happened? The Chongqing officials behaved like Chinese officials behave. Sex is so bad, so vulgar, so ..... well, we all ...

Let’s Make Love in Love Land

Saturday, May 16th, 2009

I was just browsing the China news (written in English), when I found some quite amusing headline: China builds first sex theme park Depending on Your morals, experience and believes that might sound interesting, boring, immoral or a great business idea. BBC seems to know something about this mysterious place of sex ...

Laowai, Misbehavior, Sex Parties and China

Sunday, May 10th, 2009

My last article, This Summer in China, stirred up some dust and I'd like to discuss about that a little longer. Let's get a short chronological overview of what happened first. In the article I was writing about my ideas for this summer and I also stated that I need a ...

This summer in China?

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

Now it's May already and the hot summer is approaching. My exams at university will be in early July, after that I'll probably visit some of my relatives in Eastern Europe. After that I'd really like to stay a month in China, as I already miss that place a lot, ...

China promises plan of actions for human rights

Monday, February 9th, 2009

I just found this news from AFP. It's in German and the title is "China verspricht ersten Aktionsplan für Menschenrechte". As I really like what I read, I want to translate it for You. China promises plan of actions for human rights Monday, 9th of February 2009 Geneva (AFP) — China, according to ...