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03 Apr 2013

Marvel Kowtows to China

Marvel is releasing a special, China-only edition of Iron Man 3. Way to sell out, Marvel! The Chinese edition will have special scenes specifically written to suck up to the Chinese government.

Marvel Studios, a subsidiary of the Walt Disney Co., made a joint announcement with Chinese media company DMG last Friday. The domestic, Chinese and other international versions will have similarities, but China’s will have additional prepared bonus footage made especially for the Chinese audience.

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02 Apr 2013

Never Say Die

China’s remote Bama County is home to a significant number of the world’s oldest people but what is the secret of a long and happy life? Today, this remains the eternal unanswered question.

“I don’t have any secret of living a long life. You need to be a good person with a balanced mind,” says Huang Xu Ping, who is currently 113. According to locals, the abundance of “sunshine, clean air and water” is reason for their longevity. But with more and more tourists coming to see them, could the trappings of the modern world end their old way of life?

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30 Mar 2013

The Love Park

Across the Americas and Europe, people often go online or check the newspapers to search the personals and seek out romance. But in China, personals get posted in public parks. Would-be suitors and their parents cruise locales like the People’s Park in Shanghai seeking the right partners for themselves or for their children.

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27 Mar 2013

China’s Ghost Cities

Vast cities are being built across China at a rate of ten a year, but they remain almost uninhabited ghost towns. It’s estimated there are 64 million empty apartments. Australia’s Dateline SBS reports.

 

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10 Mar 2013

Crackdown on Public Pooping

The Hong Kong metro wants to wipe out an unsanitary practice: Some of its patrons, supposedly mostly Chinese tourists, are defecating in public places at train and subway stations.  As part of its campaign, the metro has posted signs advising travelers to seek out toilet facilities and otherwise not to poop on the premises. H/T Apple DailyEnglish

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08 Mar 2013

China’s Farmscrapers

Faced with a horrendous pollution problem, China is pondering an innovative solution — skyscrapers that would stand as self-contained ecological havens, not only housing residents, shops and industries, but also farms reaching up to the clouds. H/T SourceFed

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03 Mar 2013

North Korea’s Spy Bistro

North Korea lacks the money to feed its people, but the government has opened an expensive restaurant in Beijing rumored to serve as a spy base. The mysterious Hae Dang Hwa caters to high-profile North Korean officials and businessmen in China.

Beautiful North Korean waitresses wear traditional dresses, while professional female-only performers hop from room to room with musical instruments. No photography is allowed, and, of course, no English is spoken. Some observers maintain that North Koreans opens restaurants in foreign countries to provide cover for spy missions.

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02 Mar 2013

China’s Most Polluted City

As Beijing residents are told to limit time outside because of pollution, some of the 10 million residents in Shinjiazhuang, China’s most polluted city, who are forced to wear masks every day, are starting to fight back. Great Britain’s Channel 4 Asia Correspondent John Sparks reports.

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11 Feb 2013

Vegetarian Ham

Joe Dan Gorman, the sneaky weasel, extols the virtues of Chinese vegetarian ham, the tube steak we’ll all be eating in the future if we keep borrowing billions of dollars from China. On a more serious note, Joe Dan demonstrates how the Republicans and Democrats have morphed into two branches of the same party. One branch openly declares its intentions to screw the public. The other branch bends over and permits the massacre. Watch Intellectual Froglegs and learn.

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01 Feb 2013
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Where’s Ai Weiwei?

The Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C., has opened the first major North American retrospective devoted to the artwork of dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. While the show — “Ai Weiwei: According to What?” — has received glowing reviews from art critics and visitors alike, the artist himself will probably never get to see it.

“We had always hoped that he would be here for the opening,” explains Kerry Brougher, chief curator at the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. “Unfortunately, as we were in the middle of working with Ai Weiwei on the exhibition, he was arrested in China and incarcerated for 81 days.”

Using the show as a backdrop, Reason TV recounts Ai Weiwei’s ongoing efforts to speak out in a country where freedoms are sharply curtailed. Without the benefit of a passport, Weiwei has increasingly turned to the internet to engage the wider world. He has found a receptive audience waiting for him.

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