[nddaily] Famous online game World of Warcraft China server was suspended for 54 days. It is finally re-opened its service on July 30. Millions of Chinese gamers cheered with “tears of joy”, but they were also surprised to find that many models in the game have been modified. Especially a lot of icons of character’s head have been replaced with “boxes”. “Harmonized” (Hexie: ‘和谐’ now is ‘盒谐’，it just happens the word ‘box’ in Chinese has the same pronunciation as the first character of Harmony) World of Warcraft is now called “World of Boxes” by gamers.

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[NetEase] College student Li, Yu (李玉）was in an uncomfortable situation last week while completing her registration form for blood donation — she lost her right to donate blood as a result of her honesty regarding her sexuality. As such, Yu signed her name on an online petition to encourage the government to eliminate the existing discriminating terms against homosexual people in the blood donation regulations.

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[NetEase] In Rome 2009 World Aquatics Championships men’s 800 meter freestyle final, Zhang Lin (张琳) of China swam well, with 7 minutes and 32 seconds he broke Australian Swimmer Hackett’s 7 minutes and 38 seconds world record by 7 seconds. He becomes the first Chinese Men’s swimmer to win World Championship gold medal. Ous Mellouli from Tunisia came in second with 7 minutes and 35 seconds and Canadian Ryan Cochrane won bronze medal with 7 minutes and 41 seconds.

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I first saw this on shanghaiist and loved it.  “super buns” Kung fu band Sings Jay Chou’s “Gragon Fist”, enjoy!

Dragon Fist from sun haipeng on Vimeo.

And this one pays tribute to Bruce Lee.

Super Baozi vs Sushi man from sun haipeng on Vimeo.

Most people already know the issues on Censorship in China. Especially Internet Censorship, as for now, Twitter, YouTube, facebook and flickr etc. are all blocked in China. Netizens spend numerous times on techniques on how to get over the “Great Firewall of China”. This is an ongoing topic being discussed to death. Many blogs are dedicated for this issue, dedicated to show people how to “climb over the wall”.  So you can probably find plenty information on this if you want to know more about it.  Today, I came across these 2 blog posts talked about censorship vs. innovation.

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People say you can find just about anything made fake (Shanzhai) in China. How about universities? Guangdong province education department issued a solemn statement: recently 2 universities “Southern University” and “Hua Nan College of Industry and Commerce” appeared on the internet were total hoax. Police is investigating at the moment. Right now is the season of school admissions, Province education department warns the graduating students to be alert of these internet enrolment frauds.

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[NetEase] July 26 China National Men’s Soccer group A third round match between Beijing team and Tianjin team played in Tianjin. This is an important match decides who advances from the group to the next around. The game was very intense and physical. During the match three of the Tianjin players got red cards and were ejected from the game. After the game was over major disturbance broke out, Tianjin players chased and referee and attempted to beat him up.

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Lu Jun (吕军) is number one ranked official at Hunan province Hengdong county Water and Power department serving as the department chief. On July 15 after noon, Lu and a female worker of Industry and Commerce department of the same county checked into a hotel. When the woman walked out of the hotel, she suddenly fell to the ground and died. Right now Lu has been suspended and is under investigation.

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The 7^th ChinaJoy (China Digital Entertainment Expo & Conference)  held its opening ceremony at the Shanghai New International Expo Center. This exhibition will be held from July 23 to July 26, 85% of the exhibitors are expected to be local vendors. This year’s ChinaJoy display area reached 35,000 square meters. Exhibitors include network, standalone, console, arcade games and other fields. However what was most disappointing to the fans was Starcraft 2 was banned by authorities from being exhibited on this year’s ChinaJoy.

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Netizen 落雪是花 posted this in ifeng BBS:

Recently, there have been several so-called artists engaging in “performing art”. They hired a dozen migrant workers to eat next to a naked woman. Its name was “fantasy performance art”. What is “performing art”? I really do not understand, but I laugh at the idea of letting a group of men eat around naked woman and call it art.

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[MOP] Australian media reports on July 22, to protest the 58^th Melbourne International Film Festival playing the “East Turkistan” separatists’ documentary, the Chinese film directors Jia Zhangke and Zhao Liang decided to withdraw their 3 films, were going to be shown in early August at the Melbourne Film Festival.

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[NetEase] July 16 morning Foxconn (in Shenzhen Baoan district) 25-year-old worker, Sun Danyong leapt from his apartment, a 12 story building to his death. Before this, he was in charge of the 16 Apple iPhone prototypes and one of them was missing. Therefore Sun was under company’s investigation. On the 18^th Sun’s university classmate said, during the investigation Sun was illegally searched, detained and also physically abused.

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[QQ] Taipei County announced the second wave of oil-fried fast food inspection reports yesterday. 7 branches of 4 kinds of business have been selected for inspection. It included the well-known fast food brand McDonald’s and pizza chain Yogh Zhongzheng Shop, the heavy metal "Arsenic" has been detected in all of their food which exceeds 9 – 11 times over the standard amount. It showed that their oil is really harmful to health. These stores were ordered to improve. In addition they will also be transferred to the health authorities and be fined up to 300,000. Why the high amount of cancer-causing substance "Arsenic", even the toxicology experts feel puzzled. However, it is sure that besides for the heavy metal, another carcinogen "Acrylamide" (it confirmed as a carcinogen through animal experiments) has been detected in the oil of 7 stores (including KFC). The consumer protection official informed that as the acrylamide is harmful to human’s health, and they will work with relevant units to study whether the standard rules shall be carried out.

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As China goes into the summer season, many cities in are under record high temperatures. Public pools and beaches are overwhelmed with visitors trying to stay cool. These pictures show what it means for China to be the highest populated country.

 
July 18, public swimming pools are full of visitors in Wuhan. On that day temperature hits 39 degrees Celsius (102.2 Fahrenheit). The number of visitors in Wuhan Youth Center Water World hit the record high over 5000 residents hit the pool to cool off.

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Jia Junpeng became instantly famous because of a phrase on the internet. July 16 2009 someone wrote a post on Baidu WoW (World of War craft) forum with the title “Jia Junpeng, your mom tells you to go home to eat” Up to 9 pm the next day it already had 243,000 replies and 6 million clicks.

The poster has the IP address of “222.94.255.*”. The content of the post only has 2 letters “rt” is the abbreviation for “see title” in Chinese. Who is Jia JunPeng? Why the post?

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