tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-190504352012-01-30T06:26:04.567+08:00Seagull ReferenceA seagull is fast; and he's free. The Seagull Reference reports what matters to Chinese in America and Americans in China.Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.comBlogger8671100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-43903491142150163322012-01-30T05:35:00.000+08:002012-01-30T06:26:04.579+08:00A Disturbing PictureA volunteer for the orphanage Children's Hope Foundation of China posted a disturbing picture. Posting a picture of this nature online probably crossed the legal boundary in many countries, therefore it will not be included in this post. However, here is a brief description: a 4 years old child (Yiyi) was laying on a bed, with her chest open top-down. A gloved hand was also in the picture, Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-5412666607749286692012-01-27T23:55:00.000+08:002012-01-28T01:39:50.632+08:00Blessed Chinese Intellectuals Sworn to Keep the Caste SystemWhen Chinese intellectuals warned interest groups had become obstacles of China's further development, they didn't mean themselves being one of the most stubborn one.
Admittedly, China's school evaluation system, in particularly the college entrance examination, is very fair on its face value. Despite sporadic and isolated cheating incidents which were extremely rare, a student must take the Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-29137021217262959012012-01-25T00:02:00.000+08:002012-01-25T10:38:39.784+08:00Apple: too Far to Turn Back NowThis morning Rush Limbaugh lamented the reason Apple couldn't move their iPhone assembly line back to the US was because of, what else, the Union. The topic was brought up by a leak of discussions last February at White House between Steve Jobs and President Obama. Basically, Apple told Obama there was no way to bring Apple's assembly line back. It's not a pure cost consideration, but rather Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-44434642503062557012012-01-24T01:52:00.000+08:002012-01-24T02:03:53.813+08:00Moral HeroesThe yearly 'Spring Festival Party', a TV show produced by the Central China Television (CCTV), the official national TV station has been the highlight of the traditional holiday for 30 years. It is the most expected, most watched, and more recently, the most criticized show in China. For a young actor, a 5 second appearance in the TV party equates a recognition of national fame and status, Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-7279486721508568932012-01-21T01:37:00.000+08:002012-01-29T00:15:05.284+08:00Chinese Intellectuals Forced to Take SideA high school dropout successfully forced every Chinese intellectuals to take side, twice.
Han Han is an integration of everything a person could have dreamed, in a most wildest dream.
Han published his first novel in sophomore year in high school, a tremendous success by the way. By the age of 30, he had been named the World's 50 Most Influential Figures 2010 by New Statesman. Han also made Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-66972259220079087272012-01-17T00:49:00.000+08:002012-01-21T01:43:03.654+08:00DPP Lost Election, but Conquered the MainlandPresident Ma Ying Jeou of the Kuomintang Party won the re-election in a closely tied election last weekend.
The pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) lost the election in Taiwan, however, unexpectedly conquered the online community of people from the mainland. The DPP had long been equated to evils who played with narrow minded village idiots who can't see anything beyond their Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-46871081439701748582011-12-31T23:43:00.000+08:002012-01-04T05:24:39.294+08:00Top 10 Chinese Internet Events in 2011
Detail account information of more than 600 million users of CSDN was released for download in December. Other sites Tianya, Renren, Kaixin and Weibo were followed. It is notable that all password are in plain characters without any form of encryption. It is suggested websites store plain password information because of censorship regulations.
Sina Weibo started 'real-ID' in major cities.
A Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-79670805933040894002011-12-23T00:04:00.000+08:002011-12-23T00:04:59.189+08:00Chinese Police BBQ Cats on Street
A group of Chinese police officers were seen barbecuing cats on road side. A reporter of the Southern Metropolitan took this photo on 12/21/2011, in front of the office building of the Patrol Unit of the Hongmei Police Bureau in Dongguan City of Guangdong Province.
An undercover reporter was dispatched after alerted by residents nearby. The officers told the reporter they caught the cat a Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-80937708035824951122011-12-22T00:40:00.000+08:002011-12-22T05:43:02.858+08:00Chinese American Solider Died in Hands of American Soldiers
Pvt. Danny Chen was found dead in October in Afghanistan, with a gunshot wound believed to be self-inflicted. Evidences were found that Chen had been subjected to physical abuse and ethnic slurs by others in his unit. American soldiers dragged him across the floor, threw stones at the back of his head, forced him to hold liquid in his mouth while upside down. Danny Chen was born and raised Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-64530946258111758402011-12-09T03:23:00.001+08:002011-12-09T03:38:51.819+08:00A Court with no BrainThe US Supreme Court is reviewing a case which will decide whether a medical diagnostic method is patent-able.
Skipping to the point, sadly, it looks the court will go that path.
The Seagull is particularly disappointed by Justice Kagan's clueless comments in the court hearing, when she advised lawyers of one side, 'What you haven't done is say at a certain number you should use a certain Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-61877962221354499642011-12-08T22:55:00.001+08:002011-12-08T22:55:32.631+08:00Let it snow
Beijing welcomed the first major now of the year. The picture shows a soldier standing still on his post on the Tian'anmen Square.
While many admired his tense and strong posture, for some it is a mere reminder of the People's Library Army's role in the Tian'anmen Square Massacre on June 4th in 1989. The tough soldier is not guarding the people, nor the nation. He is guarding the communistBig Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-36912916057533063872011-12-08T09:31:00.001+08:002011-12-08T09:49:19.711+08:00A Good Kid, Sun Yue
Sun Yue, a four years old girl, looked at the reporter with an alert eye. She was afraid the reporter came to adopt her from her parents. Her parents had been talking many times to give her to someone else, so that she could have a better life. Yue does not want to leave them, because 'who will take care of you if I am not here?'
Yue lives with her parents in a remote village named Bajiazi Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-1815413180599547282011-12-06T06:00:00.001+08:002011-12-06T06:09:54.489+08:00Power of Education
While US higher education institutions are struggling between the moral of not be evil and the money they can collect from training public officials of regimes in the world, one argument is often cited, at least it is one way of applying influence. Certainly, it is not the case for University of New Haven on a student name Li Qun from China.
Li was named one of the most notoriously brutal Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-78901324596237602862011-11-23T01:57:00.001+08:002011-11-23T02:12:30.509+08:00A System Failure
The UC Davis incident was the second time in recent history of higher education, when administrators and faculty alike place their self interests ahead of their students'.
A few years back, when an rouge prosecutor falsely change the majority of the Lacrosse team of Duke University, the reaction from the faculty and the administration was overwhelmingly blinded support to the D.A. If only Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-20806587636717963182011-11-22T07:08:00.001+08:002011-11-22T07:08:33.399+08:00Email from Chancellor KatehiTo UC Davis Campus Community,
I am writing to tell you about events
that occurred Friday afternoon at UC Davis relating to a group of
protestors who chose to set up an encampment on the quad Thursday as
part of a week of peaceful demonstrations on our campus that coincided
with many other occupy movements at universities throughout the country.
The group did not respond to requests from Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-26442753064368924602011-11-21T23:11:00.001+08:002011-11-22T01:23:17.359+08:00Go Now KatehiUC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi rejected calling for her to resign, because 'I really feel confident at this point the university needs me.' Katehi went on national TV, 'there are so many critical issues to be addressed and we really need to start the healing and move forward'.
Friday's peppery spraying peaceful students sitting in the quad demonstrated failure of leadership as the top Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-43518095562149468122011-11-20T23:12:00.001+08:002011-11-21T00:42:52.544+08:00Chancellor Katehi not all of the problem, but she must goWhen asked about the calling for her resignation, UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi replied that she did not violate any institutional policies, therefore she would not step down after video showed passive sitting students sprayed by campus police in their faces. Faculty member at the scene observed that for those refused to open their mouths, police pried open their mouths and then sadistically Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-80318736239743088882011-11-20T06:00:00.001+08:002011-11-21T12:05:33.024+08:00UC Davis Pepper Spray
The Seagull was so disgusted by the UC Davis incident when police officers walked to a few students who quietly sat in the quad area in protest and started spray on them.
From the calm and measured faces and paces, in a sharp contract to the students who dodge their heads in between their legs but otherwise sitting still through out the entire process, the Seagull had no doubt that had these Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-5511180719694377802011-11-16T22:47:00.001+08:002011-11-16T23:51:58.677+08:00A Slip of the Tongue - Jon HuntsmanFormer Governor of Utah and US's last Ambassador to China, spoke about how US can catch up in its manufacturing sector in a presidential candidates debate at Wofford College of South Carolina.
As in all presidential candidates debate, bashing China is always a cheap shot to gain applause from the audience. Mitt Romney stated the US was in the middle of an undeclared war with China, therefore Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-90399460412862211852011-11-13T01:11:00.001+08:002011-11-13T01:32:18.779+08:00How Chinese Law Enforcement Officers Enforcing the LawA surveillance video camera caught a scene when two Chinese law enforcement officers gave a hotel front desk girl a lesson.
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youtube (same, just in case first one removed by CCP)
One officer of the Law Enforcing Bureau called in to book a room. The officer was annoyed when the girl started taking down his information, because 'everyone should know me'. "I will be there in a Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-76195561690857221502011-11-02T22:08:00.001+08:002011-11-02T22:11:01.206+08:00Chinese search engine Baidu bragged about its 'Testing on Toilet' Knock-offThe official Chinese search engine Baidu bragged about its 'Testing on Toilet (TOTT)' project, where intriguing thoughts or projects were posted in the bathroom for employees to 'digest, an idea piloted by Google about 5 years ago.
Well, they might be too used to copying & pasting in their cubicles, that couldn't help to do the same when releasing themselves, as revealed by this Biadu TOTT Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-28687681918644553742011-11-02T03:35:00.002+08:002011-11-02T21:17:10.926+08:00Second Village Head Publicly Executed65 years old You Ji'an was elected the head of village of Foguang (Buddha Aura), You Township, Xinhua County, Loudi Prefecture, Hunan Province.
You's body was found in the Zi River 100 miles away after he was last seen in the government building of Xinhua County, where You went to visit the County Party Chief after obtaining a correspondence [No. 201101120270] from the National People's CongressBig Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-24828730434930967572011-10-31T06:07:00.000+08:002011-10-31T06:16:21.170+08:00Most Polluted Cities in ChinaThe 20 most polluted cities (PM10) in China in the first half of year 2011 are:
Lanzhou, Gansu
Urmqi, Xinjiang
Xi'an, Shannxi
Chifeng, Inner Mongolia
Hefi, Anhui
Yan'an, Shannxi
Xining, Qinghai
Beijing
Yangzhou, Jiangsu
Lianyungang, Jiangsu
Nanjing, Jiangsu
Jinan, Shandong
Chengdu, Sichuan
Harbin, Heilongjiang
Wenzhou, Zhejiang
Huzhou, Zhejiang
Jining, Shandong
Zhengzhou, Henan
Ningbo, Zhejiang
Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-78073914114067739882011-10-29T05:44:00.000+08:002011-10-29T05:44:07.000+08:00Students Need a Bridge
While many bridges-to-nowhere are being built within and beyond mainland China boundary, a bridge has been urgently called for years. Students in Maji Village of Fugong County, Nujiang Prefecture of Yunnan Province have been commuting across the Nujian River like this every day for years. More than a dozen children fell in the river and many lost their lives in each and every year.
While Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-31397496664502111762011-10-28T00:55:00.000+08:002011-10-28T00:56:13.135+08:00The Last Class for Migrant Workers' Children in Beijing
Students were comforting each other with hugs after they learned their school would be shut down by the Beijing Municipal authority to drive them out of the capital city.
The principle of East-Dam Experimental School in Chaoyang District was the only person who knew the school was shutting down on Oct 21, 2001. The school has resisted the pressure from government to close for months. Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-45506226272859775322011-10-15T22:38:00.000+08:002011-10-15T23:19:05.794+08:00We Took Linyi
Linyi had been conquered, claimed at least by two individuals on the weibo, Chinese knock-off of Twitter. Details not known yet, but the two successfully get into the village of East Shigu, where blind lawyer Chen Guangcheng had been jailed in his own house. They were not able to enter Chen's house, which was guarded by more than 900 police and thugs hired by the government 24 hours. They Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-71829517112640393512011-10-15T02:51:00.003+08:002011-10-15T02:55:23.818+08:00Simply IncomprehensibleThe absurdity of the CCP's ruling can only be surpassed by itself.
A Chinese fighter-bomber JH-7 'Flying Leopard' crashed when performing in the 2011 China Xi'an International Air & Space Exhibition. One pilot was believed dead, another one was seriously injured. The PLAAF issued a statement that no military airplane took part in the performance. It would be a surprised, since not every Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-55145739650081573942011-10-15T00:32:00.000+08:002011-10-15T00:34:29.003+08:00Oversea High School a HoaxThe Seagull reported a China sponsored charter school in California turned out a hoax, possibility fraud.
Although extensively carried by Chinese media, notable the official Xinhua News, and cheered as an iconic step in extending China's soft influence to the US, no reference in English other than from the allegedly founding organization Chemax Education Foundation can be found. The 'Opening Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-67007032010210184452011-10-12T22:38:00.001+08:002011-10-12T22:38:56.549+08:00In Searching for LegitimacyIt appears the Communists Party of China is lost in its searching for ruling legitimacy.
Evidently, the 'Communists' roots was deemed inappropriate. The 45 anniversary of Mao's death was passed without a single word of mentioning in any state controlled media. Actually, any attempt that may reference to the Mao's past has been cracked down as brutally, as in the case of any democratic movementBig Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-61092331138556209482011-10-11T04:03:00.003+08:002011-10-12T01:39:21.128+08:00Chen GuanchengChen Guangcheng, a self-taught lawyer, is a blind man, born 1971. The Chen family, Chen, his wife Yuan and his daughter kesi, lives in East-Shigu Village, Yinan County, Linyi Prefecture, Shangdong Province, about 300 miles from Beijing.
A person of 'Light' and 'Sincere' (the two Chinese characters of his name Guang-Cheng), Chen was not new in Irking communists leaders in Shandong. 1996, Chen'sBig Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-80512765599034876032011-10-03T22:57:00.000+08:002011-10-15T00:42:59.043+08:00Guangdong Experimental High School in the USAGuangdong Experimental High School traces its root to the 1872 preparation school for US studies, where 100 Chinese learned English before embracing their journeys in colleges and universities across the US, the first batch of Chinese students in the US.
Last week, a brand new school in Riverside, California celebrated completion of campus. According to Xinhua News, the charter school is Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-40564079093261864332011-09-30T16:03:00.001+08:002011-09-30T16:04:10.924+08:00Laowai Said Bomb RussiaWell, not really.
But you would never know where is the bottom line of Commies. Back then when a Chinese (mainland) fishing boat was detained by the Japanese near the disputed Diaoyu Islands area, the communists government kept their head down. There had been some heated discussions online regarding what to do.
Some argued since historically Diaoyu Islands fell in the authority of Taiwan Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-67694592858984143612011-09-30T14:41:00.000+08:002011-09-30T14:42:10.265+08:00A Protege of a Communist is No Better
Lu Binhua is a specialist at the a hair salon 'Windsor's Love' in Ningbo of Zhejiang Province. Her house in her hometown Hanyang, Hubei Province was bulldozed by local officials against their resistance and without going through legal procedures. Lu announced that she would not serve any officials.
She would ask the question, 'do you work in a government agency' before serving a client. IfBig Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-46303296259316369252011-09-29T10:53:00.000+08:002011-09-29T10:53:25.263+08:00Twelve Chinese Universities Ranked in ESI CitationsTwelve Chinese Universities were ranked top according to the Essential Science Indicators (ESI).
181 Beijing University, Beijing
219 Qinghua University, Beijing
241 Zhejiang University, Hanghzou
291 University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei
302 Fudan University, Shanghai
307 Shanghai Communications University, Shanghai
325 Nanjing University, Nanjing
418 Sun Yet-sen University, Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-41029046882367809752011-09-29T10:05:00.001+08:002011-09-29T10:07:01.721+08:00Korean Celebrated Japan's Monster Earthquake
Koreans displayed a banner at the Quade-Final game of the Asian Football Confederation Champions League, when they hosted the Japanese team of Cerezo Osaka. The banner said "Congratulations on Japan's Monster Earthquake!". The banner was written in Japanese.
With that said, the Korean team Jeonbuk Hyndai Moters FC won the game 6:1. The game took place earlier today at the Jeonju World Cup Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-23728101073034692592011-09-29T09:24:00.000+08:002011-09-29T11:54:15.966+08:00No Child Trafficking in HunanToday another investigation of the Shao Orphans incident was concluded by the Hunan Communist Party. "No Child Trafficking Operation Was Found", concluded the task force.
Twelve Party members were expelled from the Party, but no fault was found of the government operation.
Not sure when was this round of investigation started, and who was involved. There had been several official Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-91624355557520026522011-09-29T02:02:00.000+08:002011-09-29T02:03:26.146+08:00Students Arrested in New York for Cheating SATA college student and six high school students were arrested for cheating in SAT. The college student allegedly sat in for high school students at a pre-arranged price in the past year.
A freshman at the University of Michigan, Sam Eshaghoff was arraigned on charges of scheming to defraud, criminal impersonation and falsifying business records. The high school students were charged with Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-3559661705499845002011-09-28T22:24:00.001+08:002011-09-29T02:20:23.961+08:00Sex Slave Story Questioned
Days ago a 'sex slave' story shocked the Chinese Internet, when reporter Ji Xuguang called for backup on micro-blog when he was investigating a thread of women jailed underground in Luoyang of Henan Province. Ji managed to smuggle out the city in a car driven by his brother in law, armed with a rusty knife. After he reached a safe place, he told the following story as he heard of:
An Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-19746368540363541502011-09-27T21:05:00.002+08:002011-09-28T01:34:30.017+08:00Unexpected Accident Hit Shanghai Subway
July 23, on bullet train rear-ended the other, unknown number of passengers perished. While the focus of investigation was the signal system ATP, which gave green light even when there was another train occupying the same segment of rail right ahead, it was revealed that many subway systems, including the Shanghai Subway used the same signal system. The authority attributes the cause of Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-58955237560548265992011-09-26T21:55:00.000+08:002011-09-26T21:56:30.396+08:00'Irvine 11' SentencedMuslim students who disrupted an on campus pro-Israel political speech by shouting questions were found guilty of 'conspiracy to disrupt a public speech' and 'disrupting a public speech'.
All sides cited academic freedom as an argument. The Muslim community see it a right to criticize, the pro-Israel group sees the crackdown valuable to allow an invited speaker deliver a message. The Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-40244408989399039842011-09-23T22:27:00.001+08:002011-09-24T00:14:23.537+08:00Foreigners Set Up Container School for Poor Beijing Kids
While the Beijing government is cracking down on low-cost schools in an effort to drive poor people out of the capital city, Compassion for Migrant Children (CMC), a charitable organization combining foreign and local volunteers, set up an after school park, with a name 'the container school', just outside the 5th Highway Ring of Beijing in a village 'Heiqiao (Black Bridge)' for the poor kidsBig Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-13584902300452692442011-09-23T21:51:00.001+08:002011-09-24T00:15:10.077+08:009th Grader Suicide on Textbook Fees
A middle school student in Chongqing killed herself, after she couldn't pay a CNY 250 ($40) textbook fee. The student is from a poor family. The school is the Shanghe Middle School in Chongqing.
The city of Chongqing, one of four municipals along Beijing, Tianjin and Shanghai, was reported to had spent CNY 270 billion ($45 billion) on a campaign to 'Sing Red Songs' in 3 years since Bo XilaiBig Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-71865720808653331722011-09-23T09:45:00.000+08:002011-09-23T09:52:41.433+08:00One Hundred and One DalmatiansThe plot was familiar, a pretty woman stole a lovely dog, but the story took place in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province.
The dog belongs to Handing Pet Club of Shanghai. The government run Hanghzou TV, under the propaganda department, borrowed it for a pet program. Then the TV station refused to return it. When the pet shop owner, a businessman from Taiwan asked for the dog, he was told the TV Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-40914261105527886012011-09-22T22:29:00.000+08:002011-09-22T22:29:54.089+08:00Shame of a Nation
Second graders of the Yanshang Elementary School do not have their own classroom. The rented farm barn cost CNY 400 per year. Yanshang Elementary School is in Kunzhai Township of Nayong County in Guizhou Province.
Lucky them, the school had been picked by a number of charity organizations, as well as the provincial government as a model site for free lunch. Before, most 274 students Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-86890945506372400242011-09-20T20:43:00.004+08:002011-09-20T21:00:24.247+08:0011 tourists fell into water, two still missing in Chongqing
The title is a faithful duplication of the official Xinhua News: 11 people fell into water after the collision. Nine had been rescued, while 2 were still missing. The spokesperson of the Rail Ministry, Mr. Wang Yongping, said, ".. whether you believe it or not...well, I did."
The accident happened earlier today, near downtown of Chongqing Municipal, the largest city in China (by population), Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-78225615497676818032011-09-20T00:41:00.000+08:002011-09-20T00:41:49.746+08:00Chinese Numbers Between 1999-2003, the average crime rate of the general population in mainland China is 2.5 per 1000. The number for government employee is 5; for employee of the justice system is 15.
The ratio of family income to housing price: US (1:3), Japan (1:4), Singapore (1:5), Sydney (1:8.5), NYC (1:7.9), China (1:25), Beijing (1:40).
State run enterprises employed 8% of labor, but represent 55% of Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-22760615545753163732011-09-13T22:35:00.012+08:002011-09-14T21:40:51.101+08:00Whistle Blower's Parents Harassed by Shanxi PoliceIt started as a traffic dispute, but ended as the confrontation of the Justice System and the people.
In the evening of September 6, near the entrance of a residential community, two young men driving a BMW (with no license plate) and an Audi (plate number Jin O 00888) brutally beaten up a young couple and their 5 years old child on a traffic dispute. The duo taunted witnesses to call 110 (the Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-5540478419341318522011-09-10T04:10:00.000+08:002011-09-10T04:10:59.697+08:00A forgotten accident64 people lost their lives when a ferry sunk near a sand filed in Shaoyang, Hunan Province on September 9, 2011. The same area where children were taken away by government agencies to be sold to adoptive families for profit.
The ferry was certified to a capacity of 30, but carried more than 100 passengers, mostly local middle school students going home on the Moon Festival vacation.
Official Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-32351365116910831492011-09-08T21:45:00.001+08:002011-09-08T21:45:45.410+08:00Gridlock in Beijing TonightIt has been gridlock in Beijing tonight, because it's time again to bribe the government officials. The Moon Festival (Mid-Autumn Festival) give people a good excuse to visit government officials to pass the season's greetings...with bags of cash, etc. The otherwise traditional festival is on August 15 of the lunar calendar. It fell on September 12 this year.
Imagine that! The entire capital Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-29033134719958377592011-09-07T22:25:00.001+08:002011-09-07T22:28:57.355+08:00South Korea Online CensorshipProfessor K.S. Park was one of three members appointed by the opposition party of South Korea to the national Internet Censoring body Korea Communications Standards Commission (KCSC). An anti-censorship and free speech advocate, Park opposes most of the decisions made by the commission, a nine members body controlled by the ruling party. This week, Professor Park found his own blog on the roll Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-33066053292522462292011-09-06T21:15:00.002+08:002011-09-06T21:17:10.871+08:00I Want Go To School!"I want Go To School" was an official slogan of the 'Project Hope'. For over 20 years, schools were set up, and many children poor sponsored to go to school on private donations. If you are confused how come the No. 2 economic body in the world must rely on private donations for public education, you have to understand how the government income were allocated. Education and Health combined Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-42172826069570013792011-08-30T20:45:00.005+08:002011-08-30T21:17:50.772+08:00Believe It Or Not, PLA EditionBelieve it or not?
A 48 years jobless woman was sentenced to 10 years by the First Middle Court of Beijing. Xiu Zhu claimed her husband was a Major General, deputy political director. She took CNY 1 million ($150K) from a active duty Major with Last name 'Wei' of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), promising she could make him a Lieutenant Colonel. Wei paid CNY 200K when the two met the Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-58158787383948799282011-08-29T22:53:00.002+08:002011-08-30T21:25:01.941+08:00A Frugal Education
Five little ones were on a bed surrounded by coal powders piled higher than the bed. Some were playing; some were sleeping at home of Yuan Lihai of Lankao County in Henan Province. These children were deserted by their parents, many with disabilities or chronic diseases. Since 1987, Yuan has raised up more than 100 kids like them on his own.
While China is building schools in Africa, EuropeBig Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-1190803198938747182011-08-28T22:59:00.001+08:002011-08-28T22:59:20.305+08:00Seven Days Later, 14 Thousands Kids in Beijing Lost SchoolOnly days before the Fall semester started, Beijing authority abruptly shut down 24 private schools for migrant workers who do not hold local residency cards. The action was believed an attempt to drive these kids out of Beijing. However, because their parents are working, usually on bottom level labor jobs, in Beijing, the consequence is 14 thousands school age kids are out of school.
Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-23967738870263011872011-08-28T04:39:00.000+08:002011-08-28T04:39:32.409+08:00Unbearable BurdensChinese portal website Sina.com announced that it would censor users who posted inaccurate messages. For example, if a user posted 'The area was struck by an earthquake 2 minutes ago', while the stamp showed 2.3 minutes according to the official earthquake time released by the USGS, then it would be considered an 'inaccurate' message.
It looks like that Sina took an unbearable burden on its Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-50113052184667192712011-08-26T01:03:00.003+08:002011-08-26T03:36:05.635+08:00QA888 Skipped Crash after Declaring Mayday in ShanghaiAugust 13, 2011, originally Pudong bound QR888, a 777-300ER, declared Mayday after waiting more than an hour at alternate airport Hongqiao due to weather condition at the original airport. On its way was a crew with a female Korean captain piloting HO1112, an A320. The Korean Captain refused to give out the descending path.
The Air Traffic Control begged the Korean woman repeatedly to no vain.Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-1476014088530274732011-08-25T22:52:00.000+08:002011-08-25T22:52:39.620+08:00EFF Told CISCO Stop Helping Communism Regime Abuse Human RightsOne unique characteristic of high tech companies in the Internet era was their conscience awareness. Google's unofficial 'do no evil' earned them not only reputation and respect, but businesses.
However, there are a few exceptions. One is Yahoo, the other is Cisco. Both earned commissions on helping the communism regime in detecting and putting human rights activists in jail.
Electronic Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-11538546736940804242011-08-25T02:28:00.002+08:002011-08-25T02:35:14.614+08:00Gallery Exhibit Canceled
If you like the drawings of a 10 years old boy, so do I.
Alas, a planned gallery exhibit at the http://www.juelab.com/">Jue Lab of Shanghai was canceled in the last minute, because the boy's father committed a crime. Xia Jianqiang's father Xia Junfeng was a peddler in Shenyang. When he was beaten by a gang of para-police for no-reason, he managed to fight back and killed one of the mobs Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-7166097361181572512011-08-24T00:06:00.000+08:002011-08-24T00:06:34.774+08:00University of Hong Kong Celebrated 100th AnniversaryUniversity of Hong Kong celebrated its 100th anniversary. Vice Premier Li Keqiang visited the campus under heavy security. Students protesting were blocked and some detained.
They say a picture worth a thousand words. What kind of idiot will in a chair like that in a university? Chinese are proud of a history with deep rooted respect for academia scholars. Former Premier Zhou Enlai was Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-25709523255859197332011-08-20T21:23:00.003+08:002011-08-20T21:33:39.878+08:00Clash between two basketball teams, tanks not usedThe game between PLA's August 1st and Georgetown University's Hoyas halted abruptly when the players, assistants and coaches all took part in a brawl. From the video, people were chasing after each other in gangs, and slap faces with chairs.
It's puzzling as to why the Athletic Department of Georgetown University arranged the game with a military personnel. Every member of the August 1st ('Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-55092091237953713402011-08-13T21:41:00.003+08:002011-08-13T21:58:54.101+08:00Huang Huixian Released After 5 Days of Secret Jailtime25 years old Lawyer Huang Huixian was released after five days of secret detainment. Huang was kidnapped by the police without announcement nor paperwork 5 days ago after she posted a message saying she was in preparation to file a legal complain against the spokeswoman Ms. Jiang Yu of the Foreign Affairs Ministry.
On March 3, 2011, during an official weekly press conference, Ms. Jiang Yu Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-51501771245685114712011-08-13T01:36:00.005+08:002011-08-13T02:16:31.372+08:00Reading Notes, Yi Zhongtian's Limiting Government PowerConfucianism: One of three dominant religions through Chinese culture. The other two are Buddhism and Taoism. Confucianism is formed in the hundreds of years after death of Confucius. Therefore, it is, in many places, different from the original suggestions of Confucius (551-479 BC) himself. Otherwise, it is also known as Ru.
Yi Zhongtian argued, in the court of Chinese dynasties, Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-62983840101271372482011-08-11T03:57:00.000+08:002011-08-11T03:57:54.865+08:00China's Communication Cost Gone WildA health economy relies on unblocked flowing of entities, tangible (product, raw materials) or intangible (information, knowledge, labor, etc.). On both ends, the cost of communication is rising as a result of its political structure.
The Great FireWall (GFW) and Gold Shield Project not only blocked 80% of meaningful information flow, it also slowed down communications within mainland China as Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-40544111214018922202011-08-10T00:25:00.001+08:002011-08-10T00:29:27.246+08:00India Government Demands Facebook and Twitter PasswordIndia Government asked Facebook and Twitter to hand over user information, including encrypted communications, in name of anti-terrorism.
India passed a new law which states Internet companies must turn over user information, including password, etc. upon government's request. A court issued warranty is not necessary.
In the States, Utah already granted prosecutors warrantless subpoena power Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-38730201600447952622011-08-09T00:41:00.003+08:002011-08-09T00:43:54.390+08:00Academia Hired Guns
Professor Barbara Sherwin of Canada's McGill University was found having a 'ghost writer' in a paper she published as the sole author in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. The 'ghost writer' is hired by a drug company whose product is discussed in the paper.
After the information was revealed by a class action lawsuit against the aforementioned drug company Wyeth (now part of Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-2941598400993986472011-08-06T03:30:00.002+08:002011-08-10T00:30:39.949+08:00BMS and UMC sued for Poisoning DeathWang Xiaoye's family sued the Bristol Myers-Squibb, employer of Li Tianhe, and University Medical Center, the hospital where Wang was treated before his painful death.
Sue Epstein of The Star-Ledger reported,
"A talented software engineer and a loving father of a toddler would be alive today if only one of the world's biggest drug makers, and an accredited medical center had just done their Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-9807507254256554162011-08-06T00:06:00.001+08:002011-08-06T00:14:57.614+08:00Japanese Cemetery Vandalized by Pro-Government OrganizationFive "Anti-Japanese Hero" traveled to Fangzheng County of Heilongjiang Province to vandalize a Japanese cemetery. They hammered the tombstone, than poured paint over it. When they returned to Beijing, they received a welcome party and were rewarded CNY 2000 ($300) each.
The act was organized by Sima Nan, a director at the China Central TV (CCTV, the exclusive ministry-level national propagandaBig Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-37088657773057719962011-08-04T04:01:00.000+08:002011-08-04T04:01:04.726+08:00Chinese Love All US PresidentsIt is interesting to see the fact that each and every one of US Presidents are adored by Chinese in China, regardless of their domestic image.
Perhaps, Chinese had been so heartbroken by their own leaders.Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-17605295311258485762011-08-04T01:50:00.000+08:002011-08-04T01:50:41.546+08:00Helping my Daddy
When Zhu Xuan, an architect, inspected a construction site, he noticed a young boy was sanding stairs. Zhu asked the kid what was he doing. The kid said, I am helping my Daddy, so Daddy can take me home earlier today.
Isn't it the biggest tragedy is that Chinese people are too diligent and hard-working?Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-37717235967368793252011-08-02T03:36:00.003+08:002011-08-02T03:51:42.567+08:00How Do they match?The Palace Museum admitted a rumor that a rare china item was broken by accident 26 days ago. The item was a plate made in Song dynasty, one of 1106 'Level-I' collectibles in China. The value is estimated to billions of dollars.
The official plot was the item was damaged when a newly hired young researcher conducted a reading on an instrument. The reading was supposed to be no-contact, but anBig Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-3942883683039825132011-08-02T01:59:00.003+08:002011-08-02T02:10:21.014+08:00Qinghua University Nuctech Co.@西门不暗：据查找资料，中国铁路的信息系统，包括CIPS，TMIS，DMIS，客服系统。CIPS是车站编组自动化控制系统和综合管理信息系统；TMIS是货运信息管理系统，DMIS是调度管理系统。系统集成总包商是清华同方威视技术股份有限公司。
7月31日 18:24 来自新浪微博
No comment, as this information is way too sensitive.Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-46822094164773142762011-07-31T10:46:00.003+08:002011-07-31T10:54:24.954+08:00Defying Chinese Media Deliver Stenographic MessagesThe entire Chinese media 'exploded' after the bullet train accident on 7/23/2011. Even the central TV network weighed in to question the handling of the accident. Premier Wen Jiabao arrived the scene and told the rail system to 'tell the truth'.
However, one day later, the Central Propaganda Department ordered no more reporting on the accident. The accident and any related topics were banned Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-66740912685539222692011-07-28T13:45:00.005+08:002011-07-28T14:45:50.377+08:00Wen Jiabao: Rail Ministry Must Tell the TruthPremier Wen got to the scene of the bullet train accident. Wen held a press conference after visiting the hospitals and talking to survivors and their families. Wen said he had been on bed for 11 days because of an illness, which was the reason he did not come earlier.
When asked on the handling of the accident, Wen stated he called the Rail Minister immediately. We stressed he only said two Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-68632457734140362872011-07-27T12:46:00.000+08:002011-07-27T12:46:56.806+08:001 plus 1 plus 1one news piece
A disabled peddler was beaten to death by city officials in Anshun of Guizhou. Thousands of people walked to street to protest.
one petition
Please publish the real death toll of the high speed train accident
one prediction
The government may launch a war against a neighbor country/area, for no other purpose but to offset people's anger.Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-33159690327799234892011-07-24T11:19:00.014+08:002011-07-25T00:45:59.896+08:00High Speed Train Accident 'Fixed'The reported accident time was rewound 7 minutes back from 20:34 to 20:27. Weibo time stamp showed the accident had not happened at 20:27.
Perhaps so that the rail system would not look too bad for not knowing the train being rared had been sitting still on the track for too long.
发信人: wagmal (超级偶像，工藤静香), 信区: Military
标 题: 【我日！中共居然把温州动车事故的时间调整了！！】
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sat Jul 23 22:43:57 2011, 美东)
Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-16519344581939724052011-07-21T21:31:00.001+08:002011-07-21T21:35:11.961+08:00Google Cut Firefox SupportGoogle announced that it would stop updating its Firefox Toolbar, a very popular product among FireFox users.
Google had been lending its hand to the opensource browser project by contributing a big donation in exchange of a place at Firefox's integrated search block. In the darkest days while Firefox was struggling to catch up with Microsoft's Internet Explorer, that was the major source for Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-23081105356584897522011-07-19T21:22:00.003+08:002011-07-19T23:36:10.312+08:00China's Internet Population Reaches 485 millionsAccording to data released by CNNIC, as of end of June 2011, the online population in China has reached 485 millions. 36.2% of Chinese are online, comparing to 77.3% of Americans. 318 millions use their mobile phones to surf the Internet. Their average time online is 18.7 hours per week. The number of individual domains dropped to 7.86 millions from last year's 11.21 millions due to Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-86946851430306359112011-07-19T14:34:00.009+08:002011-07-20T00:03:51.709+08:00The College Entrance Exam: 2011College Admission of Shandong Province in 2011
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Qinghua University65719682
Beijing University30708682
Fudan University32682672
Shanghai Communication University50680670
Zhejiang University61694668
University of Science and Technology of China40676667
Medical College of Shanghai Communication University12676666
Chinese People's University35681665
Nanjing Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-68459762671035306452011-07-19T04:53:00.002+08:002011-07-19T04:55:22.573+08:00Here is a bark, here is a boneHaving been muzzled politically, Chinese netizens got their way in two prominent criminal cases.
Case No. 1: Yao Jiaxin, a college student stabbed a pedestrian to death after a road accident because he was afraid she 'might' blackmail him. After talking with his parents, Yao turned himself in to police, who were not aware the incident at the time.
Yao was sentenced to death, and quickly Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-49037270858134122812011-07-15T04:01:00.000+08:002011-07-15T04:01:23.604+08:00Parents of 'Shao Orphans' ArrestedThe two leading parents of 'Shao Orphans' were arrested on June 22, 2011 by Shaoyang police on sex charges.
After the broke of scandal of several Chinese government agency, including many provincial level agencies engaged child trafficking on May 9, 2011, Longhui County, Shaoyang Prefecture, and Hunan Province promised to investigate. The investigation disputed all 'rumors' spared on the Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-55859795211137326122011-07-15T02:45:00.000+08:002011-07-15T02:45:43.688+08:00Google PlusReaders of the Seagull Reference can connect to Big Brother Chang through Google+. Send theseagullbog@gmail.com an email if you need an invitation.Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-38221709940308916052011-07-13T23:32:00.001+08:002011-07-15T23:00:25.298+08:00New Oil Trace Surfaced in BohaiOne week after ConocoPhillips announced the oil spill had been fixed, new traces of oil were seen from satellite images of Bohai Gulf.
Operating in China has been attractive to western companies primarily because of low labor cost and low environmental cost. Offshore oil rigs use minimal of workers, but had tremendous environmental implication. By ignoring the environment impact, western Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-68879721944408490202011-07-13T02:12:00.003+08:002011-07-13T02:18:45.098+08:00Police Says Okay to Rape with Rubber On26 years old middle school English teacher Zhou Qin was raped by a communist official on May 17, 2011, after being ordered to drink by her principle at a government gathering. When she went to the police, she was told it was not a rape case because the alleged rapist Mr. Wang Zhonggui performed the act with a condom. The communist Party Chief Mr. Zhong Xiancong of the A'shi District Police Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-34426772554830632212011-07-12T23:11:00.000+08:002011-07-12T23:11:35.432+08:00Xinhua News AgencyIt was not newsworthy to report the Xinhua News Agency caught lying twice in a week. However, from time to time, people were simply interested on the motive of making a lie.
Story No. 1
Mr. Zang Jiebin is the deputy mayor of Xiamen, a Deputy-Ministry Level metropolitan in the Fujian Province. In a video viral on the Internet, Mr. Zang was seen speaking at a conference, while he stated, after Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-76582205883751042212011-07-07T04:20:00.000+08:002011-07-07T04:20:17.847+08:00Nobody is Safe20 years old Ms. Tian was born in a privileged family. Her father Mr. Tian Wanchang was the former deputy mayor of Liupanshui City of Guizhou Province, in charge of police, court system and local prosecutors. Her mother was an official of the Ministry of State Security.
The Tian family's life turned upside down when Ms. Tian was raped by an even higher ranked official Mr. Zhou Shili on JanuaryBig Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-62694872654232207372011-07-05T21:56:00.012+08:002011-07-06T09:38:39.546+08:00Cost of Low CostLabor cost is not the only reason foreign manufactures rushed to China to set up plants. Although China's labor cost is up, foreign companies are not expected to leave.
ConocoPhillips was caught in a situation BP faced after the Mexico Gulf Oil Leak incident, after a micro-blog indicated an oil leak was on-going in the Bohai Gulf on June 20, 2011. The China's State Oceanic Administration Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-65527542458490361132011-07-01T22:27:00.000+08:002011-07-01T22:27:12.447+08:00China to Acquire Chunk of FacebookBusiness Insider reported China was in process of acquiring huge chuck of Facebook. One source indicated a fund was hired to buy stocks of Facebook from former employees, and another source traced to Citibank, whom was in talk to acquiring as much as $1.2 billion representing a sovereign wealth fund of China.
The leads coincident with Facebook showing attention of entering Chinese market. MarkBig Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-72715787986763898202011-07-01T03:02:00.000+08:002011-07-01T03:02:21.280+08:00The Emperor Revealed His New ClothesThe Ministry of Treasure released data on number of Chinese tax payers in the discussion of adjusting exemption level. According to the data, by increasing the level from CNY 2,000 to CNY 3,500, the population of personal incoming tax paying Chinese decreases from 84 million to 24 million.
The number of merely 24 million Chinese earned more than CNY 3,500 cams as a shock to some observers. In Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-66684610279241540152011-06-29T22:30:00.002+08:002011-06-29T22:34:13.196+08:00Asian Students Discriminated in College AdmissionOuyang Feng discussed the odds for an Asian student to get in college in his blog.
By examining admission data of 10 top colleges, including private, public, research universities and liberal arts colleges, a student with Asian heritage has only 0.19 chance to get admitted comparing to a white student. The disadvanrage has been aggrevated in the past 20 years, while the odds continuously kept Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-50890428341279227932011-06-28T17:13:00.001+08:002011-06-28T17:21:00.520+08:00More Chinese Students Came to the US Last Year113.8 thousands F-1 visas were issued to (mainland) Chinese students in FY2010, a significant growth from 81.8 thousands of FY2009 and 56.3 thousands of FY2008. In addition, 27.7 thousands J-1 visas and 1.4 thousands M-1 visas were issued. F-1 visa is issued to full-time students; J-1 is issued to exchange students and scholars; M-1 is for short term visiting students.
Among Chinese students Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-72562349403332386362011-06-28T01:01:00.029+08:002011-06-28T23:53:45.222+08:00China's FortuneAn observation by an oversea Chinese who visited China this summer.
Key points: China's fortune was accumulated from two sources,
1) Exported oriented manufacturing;
2) Real Estate Development;
The skyrocketing housing price has made everything else, including personal cars, affordable to people armed with dollars earned in the world factory.
However, the country may encounter severe crisis Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-59704628076749120162011-06-24T23:49:00.003+08:002011-06-24T23:59:20.646+08:00It is Cisco AgainJohn Chambers, CEO of Cisco, has accepted an appointment to be the counsel of international economics of the Chongqing Mayor.
In particular, Chambers will help Chongqing to build a cloud computing farm with international orientation. This farm will process data for foreign companies, one named company being HP. The cloud farm enjoys 'unfiltered' access to the Internet, with only occasional Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-29805020128214721282011-05-31T21:58:00.002+08:002011-05-31T22:11:03.220+08:00Lu Gang's Death Note PublishedLu Gang, a Chinese student from Beijing with newly minted PhD shot and killed his adviser Dr. Goertz, Department Chair Dr. Nicholson, another space plasma physicists Dr. Smith, and his fellow Chinese oversea student (once roommate) Dr. Linhua Shan on Friday, November 1, 1991. One other person was shot dead and a student worker was left paralyzed.
The University of Iowa shooting had been a Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-50179960694005690152011-05-28T03:48:00.002+08:002011-05-28T05:50:19.416+08:00Li Tiantian心酸，想哭
论坛：江湖论剑作者：alemon发表时间：2011-05-28 00:08
刚放出来的李天天律师在推特上的讲述，只有你想不到，没有他们做不到的。释放，也是一种减少恐惧的方式吧……
@litiantian：我与谁开房，估计我男朋友都不想关心的问题，警察先关心了。他们先找到男方做了笔录，录的很细，谁出的钱，谁先提议去开房，做了几次，谁先挑逗的谁，要求我说的越细越好。
@litiantian：我进去以后，他们还搜了我与男朋友住的房子。所有的东西搜了一遍。我出来才知道。还逼我男朋友看我与其他人开过房的录像，还让他哥哥姐姐。
@litiantian：我出来的时候人是飘着的，走路走不稳，身体好象没有重量不是自己的。被回新疆下飞机后给男朋友打电话才知道警察找过他好多次，还找他单位，找他哥哥姐姐，要求他与我分手，写下分手的东西，我男朋友不写，说不行你们可以把我也关进去，就是别逼我，Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-9704529449630701602011-05-24T02:27:00.000+08:002011-05-24T02:27:24.458+08:00Wen Jiabao Cried Speaking to Chinese Diplomats in JapanPermier Wen Jiabao was seen wiping tears while speaking to diplomats at Chinese embassy in Japan. Wen revealed that it was his personal decision to visit the earthquake-tsunami-nuclear hit Fukushima area. Wen explained the rational of his visit, and signed he might not be able to come to Japan again.
Some read the speech a sign of Wen being increasingly isolated at the top level of power in Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-57733849361292844582011-05-23T21:49:00.001+08:002011-05-23T21:50:34.787+08:00Ivy RobberyBloombergrevealed today about US institutions hiring foreign agencies to recruit international students with a commission for each student enrolled. Paying agent commission based on number of admission was illegal in the US on US students. However, it's a fair game out of the boarder.
In the Bloomberg story blamed on predatory agents. Some Chinese students were lured to the US on false Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-36064414628270341992011-05-20T22:47:00.003+08:002011-05-24T23:57:31.480+08:00Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyIt turned out the student who hit the Fang Bingxin with a shoe was from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) Wenhua College.
Huazhong University is one of the mega universities created after the Communists took power in mainland. HUST was funded in 1953, and strengthened through a series of mergers with other colleges and universities over years. Today, the school is home to Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-6265678263422512772011-05-19T22:33:00.015+08:002011-05-20T23:12:54.543+08:00Internet Censorship Tsar Hit by Shoe
Fang Binxing, professor and president of the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, was hit by a flying shoe when giving a lecture in Wuhan University in Wuhan, Hubei Province.
Mr. Han Junyi (twitter alias @hanunyi) threw an egg, which missed the target, then a shoe, right on. The second shoe was blocked by Fang's servants. The eggs was prepared by Wuhan University Computer Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-67392734097941224052011-05-16T03:34:00.002+08:002011-05-16T21:29:27.075+08:00Ironman China Cancelled at the Last MinuteIronman China to be held on May 29, 2011 was cancelled at the last minute, announced the World Triathlon Corporation (WTC) last week.
The race was one of a few top level world triathlon competitions held in 2011. The last minute cancellation came as a shock to more than 900 registered athletes. The race was fulled booked. Many first class athletes had been training months for the game.
ChinaBig Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19050435.post-23746272494493559812011-05-14T01:54:00.004+08:002011-05-14T04:44:58.762+08:00Facebook's Falling PathHistory does repeat itself. Yahoo's struggle started with it's infamous 3721 team, which equated Yahoo a nickname of largest malware warehouse in Chinese online world. Years later, Facebook is appending itself to Yahoo's falling path in China by tying itself with Baidu, the infamous official sponsored search engine which drew Google out of Chinese market.
Any reader with knowledge of Mark Big Brother Chang （张二哥）http://www.blogger.com/profile/05794835989153938044noreply@blogger.com0