Where can the Chinese find love?

In current China, many young people choose to put aside the notion of romance for the bigger picture in career building. How they go about doing it, they might choose a couple of choices: some might continue to persue a better degree in order to receive a masters or a doctorate, some might find means to jump to a good company and continue jumping till they meet what they want in their pyramid of life, while some might choose a different path in accordance with the field work set by the government.

But talking about marriage or love, the young generation of Chinese are more realistic in finding their ideal partner. Ladies would prefer to find someone who has prospects in his career, ability to own a house and car with ease, and hold certain status in the society. The men will wish to find a partner who can become a housewife, sweet natured, and look ideal to bring out for functions or gala dinner.

Yet, the young generation of young people in China face a difficult problem in finding their partner. The race to find what they want left them simply a little older than their previous generations of people who is much simpler in thinking. And because of this, with the emergence of the explosion of the internet and a less conservative society, online dating and speed dating become the ideal way for most Chinese to find their future partners.

Trudating.com is an online dating directory where one can find perhaps the ideal platform in which they can find their true love, seeking out perhaps the most intimate moments with their possible partner. It is not just an ordinary free online personals website, where people hopes to find someone who can spend their remaining life with, but rather, it offers advices and articles, and acts as a portal for anyone to find their special partner.

If you do not have the time to matchmake under the influences of your parents, as you have to spend so much going to different places globally to do businesses, perhaps it is time to slow down and take a look at what you want in life. Do you want to remain single forever? Do you wish to miss the chance and regret that perhaps the special one is somewhere out there?

In fact, here in China, with 50 over different ethinic races in such a large country, many are actually open minded and perhaps wishes for an exotic encounter. A friend of mine, who came to Shanghai to study, is now happily married to a lovely Korean lady. They are now happily residing in Singapore, contented and assured that it was fate that brought them together in Shanghai. What is amazing about love is that people are more open and vulnerable to accept new things. Online dating is perhaps what many young people do, and Trudating.com want to ensure you know what you can expect from it, and be prepared for the good moments you might encounter, and at the same time preventing yourself from besing hurt online by scams or unwanted dangers. Dating advices are provided to all with a good will.

So, Chinese out there. Let's hope you can find your dream love soon out there. And my advice is, slow down your pace and actually look at another bright side kind of life, and from there you might see the concept of your partner soon.

Photo of the Day

As I woke up and have a looka looka around the web, I found this photo online. Not much, but this photo is well cropped, lots of informations and emotions involved when one looks at it. You can see a young woman and her children of 4 perhaps escaping from something dangerous or not safe. They must have been in some form of fearful experience in which we as viewers can only guess what had happened.

Such pictures are plentiful in our Asian societies. There is no proper means of ensuring everyone has their equal rights to safety, education and escape from poverty. Even if there is, one can never measure and predict Mother Nature at well. Floods and Earthquakes, Famine and Droughts are still unfortunately the worst enemies of Man in some part of the World.

Special Olympics 2007

The special olympics 2007 is here. And this time, Special Olympics will be held in Shanghai.Almost 7,500 athletes from more than 160 nations will compete against each other in a variety of sports from October 2 until October 11.

"The central government has declared the Special Olympics in Shanghai and the Olympic Games in Beijing as the most important sports events of the next two years," said Tang Xiaoquan, vice president of China's Association for the Physically and Mentally Impaired.

China's international reputation has recently suffered considerably because of a lack of press freedom, reports of hacker attacks originating from the country and hazardous products.


Furthermore, China has been heavily criticised about its treatment of citizens with intellectual disabilities, who are often confined in psychiatric facilities and sedated with medication.

Pictures of labourers, some of them mentally impaired, being practically enslaved in Chinese brick factories were distributed around the globe.

Now China is apparently striving to correct this gruesome impression.

Monks lead largest Myanmar Protests III

This is another footage on Monks leading against the Myanmar Government for reform and democracy. It is actually a form of engaged buddhism.

Engaged Buddhism is a term originally coined by Vietnamese Zen Buddhist teacher Thich Nhat Hanh. During the Vietnam War, he and his sangha (spiritual community) made efforts to respond to the suffering they saw around them. They saw this work as part of their meditation and mindfulness practice, not apart from it. Since then, the term continues to apply to Buddhists who are seeking ways to apply the insights from meditation practice and dharma teachings to situations of social, political, and economic suffering and injustice.

Organizations such as the Buddhist Peace Fellowship and the International Network of Engaged Buddhists are devoted to building the movement of engaged Buddhists. Other engaged Buddhist groups include the Zen Peacemakers Sangha, led by Roshi Bernard Glassman, the Benevolent Organisation for Development, Health and Insight, Gaden Relief Projects, Amida Trust and Tzu Chi. Prominent figures in the movement include Robert Aitken Roshi, Joanna Macy, Gary Snyder, Alan Senauke, Sulak Sivaraksa Maha Ghosananda, Sylvia Wetzel, Diana Winston, Fleet Maull, Joan Halifax and Ken Jones.


Books you can buy:
Burma: The State of Myanmar
Engaged Buddhism: Buddhist Liberation Movements in Asia
The Engaged Spiritual Life: A Buddhist Approach to Transforming Ourselves and the World
Not Turning Away: The Practice of Engaged Buddhism

Monks lead largest Myanmar Protests II

Books you can buy:
Burma: The State of Myanmar
Engaged Buddhism: Buddhist Liberation Movements in Asia
The Engaged Spiritual Life: A Buddhist Approach to Transforming Ourselves and the World
Not Turning Away: The Practice of Engaged Buddhism

Monks lead largest Myanmar Protests

The last movement that happened in Myanmar when the public outcry a demonstration for democracy to the government happened in 8th August 1988. Many remembered this event as the four 8 movement.

It was viewed a tragedy. About 3000 people were killed by the government when military used brutal forces to curb the situation. Most of the people died in the event were university students. Militants also surrounded Buddhist Temples in order to captures monks who were politically active in the event.

Exactly after 19 years, Myanmar again hold a demonstration, hoping to achieve democracy. Many viewed this event as futile and only hope there will be no genocide happening. This is the largest demonstration that happened in Myanmar with 100,000 people in protest.


Buddhist monks marching in protest against the military government in Yangon, Myanmar.
source:(AP Photo)

Books you can buy:
Burma: The State of Myanmar
Engaged Buddhism: Buddhist Liberation Movements in Asia
The Engaged Spiritual Life: A Buddhist Approach to Transforming Ourselves and the World
Not Turning Away: The Practice of Engaged Buddhism

Yuan Shi-Kai and Warlord Politics I

After the establishment of the Republic; War of the Warlords

Yuan Shi-Kai lead to voluntary acceptance of the Republic by the Manchurians. He pledged his support to the repubic as the "Best Form of State", leading to the end of the Imperial administraion and monarchial system. Reasons that allowed him to come into power even though he was just a provincial president, was because he carries out the proper steps in ensuring China become Republic. Many view Sun Yet-Sen as an idealist and impractical. Yuan also controlled a vast military power in Northen China.

Power in which a prime minister hold, Yuan as provincial president do not control:
- take charge of political affairs- served as commander-in-chief of army and navy
- authorised to appoint ministers and diplomatic envoys
- entitled to declare war, negotiate peace, sign treaties
- Check were necessary by Senate's approval, curbing Yuan's full control in power

Yuan's Conflicts with the Revolutionaries
- Location of the Capital. Nanking or Beijing
- Sharing Power with the Cabinet(Tang Shaoyi, China's 1st Prime Minister, leading to the resignation of Tang Shaoyi in June 1912
- Torn between Legislations; supportors do not support Yuan, view him as a Tyrant
- Revolution Alliance absorbed four other political groups and reorganised as the National Party(GuoMingDang)
- Sun still supreme leader; de facto leader Song Jiaren
- Assasination of Song Jiaren by Yuan Shi-Kai
- 125 Million Dollars Loan for re-organisation of military power and authority control, borrowed from 5 powers consortium
- Yuan's action lead and resulted to the 2nd Revolution in 1913

Yuan's gradual step to dismantle the constitutional structure
- Forced the Parliament to elect him as President in Oct 1913
- Endorsed the dissolvement of National Party in Jan 1914
- arrested National Party Members in Beijing- Extended presidential term to 10 years, made president renewable by re-election with limit and have personal right to nominate his succesor in Dec 1914
- Engaged foreign advisors on governmental affairs (Frank Goodnow)
- Became the Emperor of China in December 1915

Yuan as Emperor
- Approved majority of 21 damands by Japan for specials rights in China; sign agreement with Russia in relation to Mongolia; Britain in Tibet
- His ambition brought forth the wrath of many to fall upon him
- The National Protection Army led by Cai Er ignited the National Protection Movement against Yuan (Yun Nan)
- Guizhou also cried out for independence soon after
- Military Affairs council formed by various council provinces against him
- Deserted by his Henchmen and overcome with shame and anxiety, Yuan suddenly died on June 6, 1916
- Yuan's Dynasty only lasted for 82 Days

related books:
China: Its History and Culture (4th Edition) (Paperback)
The Rise of Modern China (Paperback)
China's Republic (New Approaches to Asian History) (Hardcover)
China and the Origins of the Pacific War, 1931-41 (Paperback)

TERRACOTTA WARRIORS INVADING LONDON SOON

The 8,000 soldiers of the terracotta army, meant to protect China’s Emperor Qin Shihuang in the afterlife, had been buried for more than 2,000 years before their discovery by farmers in 1974. Now they’re on the move again, at least some of them who are heading towards London for a major exhibition at the British Museum. The show will run for seven months, beginning on September 13, and 30,000 tickets have already been sold.

Over 120 loan objects from China's Museum of Terra-cotta Army will be shown this autumn in a major British Museum exhibition which features China's first emperor.

This loan exhibition "First Emperor: China's Terra-cotta Army", scheduled to run seven months from Sept. 13 this year to April 6 of next year, will feature the largest group of material from the tomb of the First Emperor to be loaned abroad.

This once-in-a-lifetime exhibition will explore one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of the 20th century and provide an insight into China's First Emperor, Qin Shihuangdi, and his legacy.

Objects featured in the exhibition will include a number of the world-famous terracotta warriors from Xi'an, China, which were buried alongside the First Emperor in readiness for the afterlife, as well as some of the most striking recent discoveries made on the site.

In introducing the idea of a unified state and effectively creating China in 221 BC, the First Emperor of Qin created what is today the oldest surviving political entity in the world. How that state has survived, developed and is viewed today will be explored through events, lectures and debates around the exhibition.

















source: all images from OnAsia Images
photographer: Natalie Behring

Zhang Jianhua's Coal Mine Workers

In Beijing, one cannot miss going to Great Wall of China, The Tian An Men Square, the forbidden city, the summer palace. In the other part of Beijing, the little known area in which Chinese Contemporary Art thrive and a must to visit for art lovers is the 798 factory. Many post cultural revolution Chinese artists host their art works there. However, even though so, many artists reknown internationally still remain ambigous to the locals. Such is the case for Zhang Jianhua, whose sculpture works are disturbing and profound, especially those he made: life size sculptures of Chinese coal miners

His life works depicts depict miners sitting on the ground in their black rubber boots wearing looks of sheer fatigue. Some stare blankly into the distance or prop up their heads with both hands, their faces fixed in nameless agony. Although seeing it, one might not feel any connection to it without before hand understanding the social issues in China, in which coal miners die in the thousand annually due to the hazardous working environment and poor safety issues. Little do the locals look upon the sculptures with interests, and silently, it also symbolizes the problems coal miners face in modern China, making them silent victims to disasters little known to people. Or simply, not many care about them.

The works of Zhang, now in his mid thirties, received many critical praises from the art industry. However, locally, no Chinese museum or established gallery is willing to take in his display of the coal miners entirety, even though he insists, due to the controversy and troubles it might bring from the local authorities. This can be seen clearly when his works was exhibited in 798 factory during April this year, but demanded by the censors to remove the six dead coal mine workers out of the show. They just do not wish to see it somehow.

If you look at it in a picture most Chinese in this era want to depict a progressive China, full of smiles and great improvements. No one like to look at the ugly side being depicted. Everything is good and merry, the air is tinged and filled with love songs. There is nothing "wrong" with China. There is no bubble reality at all.

Officially, 4,794 coal miners died in work-related accidents in China last year - more than 13 every day, on average, though many believe the official figures understate the real toll. But Zhang's temerity in representing the victims has won his work what might be called a soft ban.

And Zhang is not aiming to criticize the authorities. He would just like to see that from his works, he can change and affect the society, gaining awareness from the public, in which changes can happen to make his belove country more open and transparents about making changes possible, not with empty promises and propaganda. Everyone should know what is going on in the country. The thing is, a large majority do know, but they choose to leap into a safety zone of "i fuck care as long nothing disturb me" attitude.

Personally, I think people outside of China are more interested with the Chinese Contemporary Artists than the locals. If these artists did not gain International attention when they exhibited their works overseas, pressures forced upon China internationally, a lucrative art market in which China wants to put his paws upon, and also because of the WTO few years back, the voice of the artists locally will still remain unclear throughout the country.

more about the artist, extract

The artist's first taste of successful shock realism came with another series of sculptures four years ago in which he depicted the lives of peasants from his native Henan Province. The 12 figures in that series included an elderly woman sitting alone, threadbare migrant workers and rural schoolteachers.

The work drew critical praise when it was introduced at a gallery in Beijing. But when the show began touring other venues in the capital that year, displayed on the grounds of two middle-class housing developments and at China Agricultural University, it drew strong protests, with residents and students attacking it as vulgar, striking the artist and knocking over some of the figures.

The university exhibition had to be canceled after only two hours.

"These were beggars," said one commentator in a school newspaper. "It's sick." Another complained that "rural areas have progress, too, why not show that?"

Zhang's choice of topics is not the only thing that sets him apart from many contemporaries. He said that to prepare for his miner series, he made numerous trips to the coal country in Shanxi and Henan provinces, living with miners for weeks at a time, soaking up their hard-knocks culture while simultaneously observing the lives of the illegal mine owners, with their flashy, sudden wealth.

The artist grew particularly animated as he described the scenes of lavish weddings organized for the daughters of coal mine owners in Datong, one of China's most famous mining towns, of motorcades of stretched Cadillacs and Hummers and Mercedes-Benzes, festively honking their horns. "This is the kind of ostentation they want," he said. "Yet underneath the wheels are piles of white bones and pools of fresh blood."

For his next project, clearly another effort at unveiling a ubiquitous but officially invisible social problem, Zhang said he planned to portray the country's large numbers of prostitutes. "Not the prostitutes of the rich, but the ordinary, working-class prostitutes, who live in very difficult conditions."

Weird buns that we put in our stomarchs...

Makers of the fake buns said they did not think customers could tell the difference What is happening in China? There are a series of scandals in reactions to food management. Zheng Xiaoyu, former head of the State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA), was executed on Tuesday for taking some $850,000 in bribes in return for approving the use of certain medicines. Now, CCTV reported that in Beijing, people are selling buns mixed with up to 60% in content of waste paper cupboard with fatty meat, arousing safety alerts on what consumers should really expect the government do to deal with such unethical actions. Few weeks ago, reports indicate that there were new examples of dangerous or below standard Chinese products being circulated globally for daily usage – from toxic toothpaste to children's toys painted with lead-based paint. This brought about international outcry on countries pressuring China to enforce further measures to curb such incidents from happening. Seriously, what is going on with the people in China. I do not think its a government issue. Rather, what is wrong with the people? As long can make money, as long they can earn, many can resort to doing such wrongs in which they can harm the majority of people; dead chickens, waste water pigs, fermented tofu in waste water, now what, buns.. My mindset now: fuck care what's the content. The less you know, the easier you can eat your meal in China now. Totally no security to the soul.. eat just because you need to eat, not because you enjoy...Zzzz quoted: The bao zi filling was made with 60% of waste paper materials In the case of the fake buns the CCTV reporters used hidden cameras to show the lengths the bao zi producers were going to in order to cut costs. To get the right consistency the cardboard was shown being soaked in caustic soda, a poisonous industrial solvent. The owners told the reporter they then mixed it with about 40 per cent fatty meat and the flavour enhancer monosodium glutamate before selling the bao zi in nearby markets. Despite discrepancies in colour and texture, the bun makers - who were shown wearing little more than boxer shorts and flip-flops - said they did not believe customers are able to tell the difference. "Do you eat them?" the CCTV reporter asked the factory owner. "No, I don't eat them," he replied.

Chongqing aims to set record with its unqiue 1000 public toilets

Chongqing, the southwestern city in China is flushing with news again. Apparently, to work in coherence of their hot and spicy food that makes people roar for water, Chongqing decided to brighten the city with its porcelain palace, featuring an Egyptian facade, with soothing background music and more than 1,000 toilets spread out over 32,290 square feet of space.

That's not all. These toilets are better than our Singapore's public toilet. Why? Its Free of charge! Officials in Chongqing are preparing to submit an application to Guinness World Records to have the four-story, free-of-charge public restroom listed as the world's largest

In an effort to promote its uniqueness, officials said that having such a public ammenities around will cheer up tourists visiting the city. Sure, we all will. After all, its a rare sight to have so many toilets in one place. But what about your environmental control, pest control, smell control? Are you up to the ability to upkeep and keep it clean? Let's cross our fingers and pray for the best.

"We are spreading toilet culture. People can listen to gentle music and watch TV," said Lu Xiaoqing, an official with the Yangrenjie, or "Foreigners Street," tourist area where the bathroom is located. "After they use the bathroom they will be very, very happy."

Some urinals are uniquely shaped, including ones inside open crocodile mouths and several that are topped by the bust of a woman resembling common renderings of the Virgin Mary. Oh my... lol

What's more, I think they also intend to build a supermarket nearby selling toiletries. I think they should build more steamboat around the area too! Eat, drink and merry..and full of +hit.

Hoho.. I guess I like to visit Sichuan soon. After all, they do have good museums there, showing interested green bronze pieces from San-Xing-Dui.

But then, what's with the Full of Shit Theme? o.O

Note: I also like to thank you readers in supporting this blog for the past month. Bad post as choice to thank you all, I know. I faced difficulties in viewing my blog as China blocks lots of information and reading online via their Great Firewall of China. I appreciate your comments and I do hope you guys do not feel neglected for not replying to your comments. Thank you readers!

Follow up of Ghandi's Last Letter

In regard to Christie's selling of Ghandi's last letters in London, India said they were not the real last manuscript written by Ghandi. However, the document selling is authentic and India hopes Christie's will donate and give it back to India. India said they will have the ability to preserve and keep the document much better than private collectors.

Well, after all the excitement I had for India, it just turn up to be all a fuss. Maybe it's the real thing, they just want to keep the price down and prevent private collector from escalating the price too much. =.=

related post : Christie's Auction of Ghandi's Last Letter

Malaysia proclaiming 50 National heritage status as celebration of half century Independence

In conjunction to 50 years of Independence, Malaysia announces that it will proclaim fifty national treasures in the form of buildings, historical sites, objects and cultural practices as National heritage. They will be officially conferred Warisan Kebangsaan or National Heritage status.

Among the list to be converted as National Heritage are The Kuala Lumpur Railway Station, the Merdeka Proclamation read by Tunku Abdul Rahman at Stadium Merdeka on Aug 31, 1957, the Parliament building, the wayang kulit, mak yong, sewang, ngajat, sumazau and Joget Melayu are among the national treasures expected to be elevated from Heritage to National Heritage status.


Wayang Kulit


Top: Sewang

Christie's Auction of Ghandi's Last Letter

Christie's, the major Global auction house and competitor of Sotheby's, is facing media attention when involving selling national identity's of India. The India government is trying their best to acquire the last letter written by Ghandi before his assassination from Christie's. It is said that the priceless document will be going under the hammer for a fixed reserved price of 9000 - 12000 pounds.

However, with all the publicity going on, and the intrusion of the Indian Government, it is speculated that the price of the letter might well be doubled.


In the letter written for the Harijan, 19 days before Gandhi was assassinated, he pleads for tolerance towards Muslims.

You can also say that the letter was an immediate effect that could have cause to Ghandi's death.

In 1998 when Sotheby's auctioned 18 letters of Gandhi, NRIs came forward to buy them for the sake of the country. But so far such a move has not happened yet.

Whether a not India will succeed in retrieving back the manuscript remains to be known. However, one thing to be make note. How did the manuscript got into the market in the first place? It is inevitable that India must try all means to get the letter back into their information and cultural division. As such things depicts a national identity, losing a chance to retrieve only meant as succumbing and showing signs of weakness as a country.

We all pray India get those letters back soon! God bless.

China's terracotta tomb site hides mystery building

For Lara Croft fans or people interested in treasure hunting, one cannot be missing the elementally huge mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor to unify China. The hidden site of Emperor was accidentally discovered by peasants in Xi'an, 1974, when they were digging a well.

The tomb of Qin is as sacred to the Chinese as of the rumored tomb of Ghengis Khan to the Mongolians. It signify a national pride in identity unique to each race and country. Qin was responsible in uniting China and building the world wonder Great of China (not Great Fire Wall) to curb attacks from raiding barbarians at the border.

Since then, the tomb helped in rewriting the history of China, making research richer in content and not hypo-theoretical texts found in chapters written by Sima Qian during Han Dynasty. In the burial site, a grand army of human size terracotta warriors and horses were left to guard the King's tomb from disturbance. Recent discovery by researchers and archaeologists deemed that there was a 30 metres tall building buried in the mausoleum. Some researchers deemed the building as a portal in which the emperor ascend to heaven from. It took them 5 years to come out with this hypo-thesis.

Five years is not a long time. We must take note that the tomb was 2000 years ago underground, with it sealed up from the outside world. When air rush into tomb, it good cause rapid disintegration to the site. Improper disturbance to it might cause great damage and loss of it forever. Relics and cultural heritage is prone to damages, and improper and rush actions could to lead to deterioration of site which is irreversible. Personally, I would rather a slower time to scan and figure out the remains than to know the content of the tomb in a short period, losing valuable resources in the way. There had been already too many loss of historical information by past mistakes made in China. Even the controversial evaluation to build a hydro-dam at the three gorges pushed thousands of cultural sites to be not reachable to researchers. If there is proper fund and professional help in ensuring the best possible research technique, then 5 years is nothing.

Until now, China is facing lack of funds in excavation and archaeological works. Most archaeological works were carried out as emergency through sudden discovery of sites as site rescue. Only certain international known sites were given more attention. Site were usually reburied to enable further research in the future when more funds and technical skills is accessible to China.

And for Lara Croft's lovers, no, this post is not about treasure hunting. Its about protecting things we have and what we value. Hoho. Too bad.

source: Shanghai Daily

THE tomb of China's first emperor, guarded for more than 2,000 years by 8,000 terracotta warriors and horses, has yielded up another archaeological secret, Reuters reported.

After five years of research, archaeologists have confirmed that a 30-metre-high building is buried in the vast mausoleum of Emperor Qinshihuang near the former capital, Xi'an, in the northwestern province of Shaanxi, Xinhua news agency said today.

Duan Qingbo, a researcher with Shaanxi Institute of Archaeology, said the building might have been constructed for the soul of the emperor to depart.

Archaeologists have been using remote sensing technology since 2002 to study the internal structure of the unexcavated mausoleum.

They concluded that the building, buried above the main tomb, had four surrounding stair-like walls with nine steps each, Xinhua said....

Singapore not a country?

LOL why Singapore don't have this kind of thing happening during their PAP gathering? Powderful, this one. But as a Singaporean I must say, we are a country. We have our corruption to the minimal, but that doesn't mean don't have. Our Golden Bowl NKF scandal quite furious also one.

Singapore is a real country. And you guys no need to keep saying "You have no brains" Thats personal attack you know :)

Weekend Reads - Pigs stuffed waste water before sale, Johore Bahru to tighten up Security Levels, China completes A huge bridge project

The following piglets look cute? Yes, they do. I took them during a trip to Hainan Island last year in Feb 2006. They are owned by my family members in Hainan Island. However, a horrible reality in China is make known to the public when villagers in Beijing forced-fed pigs with waste water before selling them to the slaughter house.

It is bad enough to know that the price of pork has doubled these few months. We do not need merchants to cheat and cause a scandal. There is enough diseases in relation to our human food chain. There are enough sick pigs to cause health problems to us. We do not want to end up dead in China. Why can't the locals think ethically in relation to this. The price has already doubled. You need feed them with waste water to increase your revenue. There is already a shortage all around China.

It would have been easier if China follows a system in which Taiwan merchants do. The Taiwanese ensured quality when they adopted a system in which only usable meat were weighed in the slaughterhouse, in which organs, fat, bones were not inside the calculation. If this is enforced by the locals, then there will not be bad taste for meat from out piggy who were forsaken their pigs rights.

China has completed yet another long stretch of Bridge crossing the East China Sea, known as the Hangzhou Bay Bridge. It is the longest bridge in the world across the sea, measure a distance of 36 kilometers The traffics of the bridge will be in operation in Jun 2008. You will expect a time cut in travel, saving a total of 120km for visitors and traders of Ningbo and Shanghai.

The bridge will be a great asset and further introduce development economically in Zhejiang province, ushing the already mega powered China market into a new sphere.

Back In Malaysia, we are hearing good news in which the Malaysian government finally, is doing something to curb the security problems in Johore Bharu. Recent scandals in which the police deny helping citizens who were calling out for help forced the local Chinese to request for enforcing of tighter management in Security. Johore will use air support to crack down on the syndicates and crime parties. They will patrol till 12th of July. How much impact will it have in improving the state is questionable. But it is good to see that actions are improvised downwards. Maybe along the way, we still can see some PTNNBCCB police eating snake, but that will be another story. Mr abdullah confirm want to develop Johore properly with Singapore. The local Chinese also don't wish to every weekend go RIOT and gain awareness. Let's see how things are in the coming months.

Personally thinking, I feel those rapers, murderers, robbers should all be face point shot dead and fed Nasi Babi as their last supper. Zzzz

The truth about dead chickens

A recent article from CSR Asia by Jacqui Dixon reported that thousands of dead chickens reared in compact chicken farms in China might end up in our human food chain, meaning we somehow or another, we might be eating something that might have consume the dead chickens.

Below is the article from the site:

" Any idea what happens to the thousands of dead chickens that don’t survive battery farming conditions every year? 80 per cent of their carcasses land up in the human food change according to Professor Gaoming Jiang in his article featured on Chinadialogue last week. Details of the study are limited but the findings are quite shocking. China consumes 4.7 billion chickens a year but the very unnatural living conditions are causing thousands of chickens to die each year, despite efforts to keep them alive. And of course, sick and dead chickens are much cheaper than relatively healthy ones which means they land up in sausages or at street stores selling roast chicken. Carcasses should be incinerated on the farm, but in China this option seems to be regarded as too costly. In the long-term eating chickens in China will become much more costly to our health. Gaoming Jiang wrote a rather controversial article last year on how China could improve its farming practices."

I was shocked when I read the article and finally understand why chen-cai-mei wanted to buy fresh chickens killed on site to bring home for cooking. I bet that majority of the people are not aware of the dangers they are involved in as a consumer. The worst part is I cannot imagine such dead chickens being exported out of China to neighbouring countries like Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore! Imagine those people with no ethics package up this dead and maybe sick chickens, process them in some screw know where factories in some undisclosed suburbs, and sell them to us in South-East Asia as some 1SGD Taiwan Sausage! F*ck Man, the more I think about it, the more shivers I feel tinkling down my spine.

I already feel bad enough that I can splurge like most expats here, who can easily go to some Japanese Fusion Restraunt over the weekend to social network with some English wanna be Locals. Eating cheap food on the streets for some cheap 5Rmb per meal does not mean that the source should be from some unknown source of dead carcass. This is as bad as the Fermented TOFU that was created with human faeces somewhere in Shenzhen.

I think I should eat lesser outside, and cook more meals to ensure I will peacefully graduate from my studies here in Shanghai. -broods-

Border problems between India and China

source: The Times of India

Tawang rebuffs China, says 'we are Indians'

TAWANG (ARUNACHAL PRADESH): India and China have been locked in endless border talks for 22 years and yet Chinese claims to Tawang have popped up repeatedly.

While Chinese officials recently refused visa to an Arunachal Pradesh official to reiterate Beijing’s claim, there have been reports of alleged incursions by the People’s Liberation Army into the state’s higher reaches. Even the Chinese ambassador to India, Sun Yuxi, has claimed that the whole of Arunachal Pradesh belongs to China.

Inside Tawang, however, such a debate appears irrelevant and unnecessary. The people of this picturesque north-western Arunachal Pradesh district regard themselves as "Indian" — in body and soul.

"Not a soul in Tawang will ever support China. We are an inalienable part of India and the Indian society," says Sangay Jampi, secretary of Tawang’s famed Galden Namgyal Lhatse monastery. "Neither Tibet nor Tawang ever belonged to China," the 35-year-old monk adds.

The 400-year-old shrine wields tremendous influence on the lives of the local people, who pay taxes for its upkeep.

Will New Delhi ever respond to Beijing?
25 Jun, 2007

TAWANG: Jawaharlal Nehru’s “Hindi-Chini bhai bhai” dictum was Indian diplomacy’s buzz word in the Fifties, but failed to stop the 1962 Chinese aggression. Forty-five years after the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) overran Arunachal Pradesh, the state is still waiting for New Delhi’s befitting diplomatic reply to the Chinese.

The PLA retreated on its own in ’62 after reaching close to Tezpur in Assam, but have not been able to take its eyes off Arunachal Pradesh. Beijing claims 90,000 square km of Indian territory in the eastern sector as historically Tibet’s and now its.
Indian defence sources say Chinese incursions in Upper Subansiri district have taken place more than 100 times between 1998 and 2000, though the Indian Army officially denies it.

BJP MP Tapir Gao blames the Centre for remaining a mere spectator. Tako Dabi, the state government spokesman, feels that though the Assembly contested the Chinese claims over Tawang, the issue has to be ultimately handled by the Centre.

The Chinese psychological game was there in 1962. And continues. In the opening ceremony of the 1982 Asian Games in New Delhi, a Chinese news agency criticised the inclusion of a lion dance of Arunachal in the cultural programme, which Chinese claimed was theirs. In ’84, the Chinese denied visa to the then Assembly Speaker, T L Rajkumar. He ultimately received a loose visa but the Chinese authorities refused to put the immigration stamp on it.

Three IAS officers of Arunachal were also denied visas. “What we could understand is that the Chinese wanted people of Arunachal to travel to China without any visa and in turn wanted their men to enter the state without any papers,” the BJP MP says.

External affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee recently said border tensions are all but inevitable between any two countries. “We need to ease the tension through discussions,” Mukherjee said.

Defence analyst Maroof Raza says he does not see another Chinese aggression happening. “It’s tied down with the US and Taiwan and would not probably want to waste its energy on India,” he feels.

In '62, Chinese came with orders to conquer
25 June 2007

TAWANG: Forty-five years is a pretty long time, enough to heal old wounds and make cerebral cells wear and tear. But for Lobsang Phunchu, now 53, that chilly night of October in 1962 is something that can never be deleted from his memory. Phunchu was only eight then, too young to figure out what was actually happening, not quite knowing whether his own Tawang fell or stood, went to the Chinese or saved and remained part of his country.

However, Phunchu, a proud Indian, still remembers, "quite vividly" the day, October 24, when he was on a long march along with his harried parents and some 25 sheep. They were escaping from a huge group of men with the arms they have never seen. "Only a few days later I came to know that those people were not my countrymen," Phunchu says.

"We walked for 12 days before we stopped at a village called Chako. It was the end of the road. Literally..," he recounts his all-walk days.

"Much later, farmers who stayed put told us stories about those foreign soldiers. Not all were demons or saints. Some would even guard our houses and protect property in our village, wouldn’t mind working alongside our farmers," Phunchu says.

"But they were invaders, executing orders to conquer us, control us and show us their might. Some of them were cruel and scary. There was a special team to clear the bodies of their own men. The Chinese were not quite willing to show the locals how many of them actually perished. But they would take the body of every single Indian soldier out of the jungles and display it in a public place," Phunchu says.

Now Phunchu has grown older and wiser to the history he witnessed. He is one who decides on land allotment in Tawang district.

"I remember where we stood then. I also know where we stand now. We are strong enough to make the Chinese realise the changing equation of power," he says.

Thousands clash with police in China

source: the news pk

BEIJING: Thousands of protesters clashed with police in eastern China last week after security teams moved in to forcefully relocate families involved in a housing dispute, a rights group said on Sunday.

Residents refusing to move out of their homes threw gas bombs at the security forces, igniting riots on Wednesday in Shengzhou city, Zhejiang province, the Hong Kong-based Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy said.

Up to 20,000 protesters and onlookers were at the scene of the riots that left at least five police cars smashed up, it said.

About 20 people were injured in the clashes involving “hundreds” of police and security personnel, while six rioters were arrested as fire engines were called in to disperse the crowd, it said.

Police in Shengzhou refused to comment on the unrest when contacted by AFP, but a local government official denied that clashes had broken out.

“The police did not call in fire engines to disperse the crowd and tear gas was not used,” the official at the Shengzhou city office told AFP. “The crowd dispersed on their own.”

A news report on the Southern Daily website said a 90-year old woman who refused to leave a four-storey building had hurled gas bombs from the top of the building as security personnel and wrecking teams came to destroy it.

Photos on the Internet showed the building decked out with Chinese flags and protest banners that called for “just compensation” and cited China’s property law which was passed by the national legislature in March this year.

Up to 20 people were living in tents on the roof of the building, as they protested the imminent destruction of the structure to make way for a new road.

The demolition did not go ahead as scheduled due to the unrest.

According to online reports, a petition to save the building had been featured in the leading People’s Daily in March as the state press trumpeted the new property law which details protections for private property.

Forced demolitions of homes has become one of communist China’s hottest social issues as residents accuse government officials of colluding with property developers to requisition land for lucrative real estate projects.