Violence broke out on July 5^th 2009 in Urumqi, the capital city of Xinjiang province. According to the Chinese government media 156 people were dead and 1434 suspects were arrested. The real reason of this riot is still unclear, but is believed the violence was caused by ethnic conflict between Han Chinese and the Uighur minority, and its dissatisfaction with the Chinese central government’s handling of the deaths of two Uighur workers in Guangdong. CCTV (Chinese Government media) said An initial investigation shows the violence was masterminded by the separatist group — World Uyghur Congress. The group is led by Rebiya Kadeer, who is a former Chinese businesswoman.

Read mush more on this at ESWN: “The Urumqi Mass Incident”

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[nddaily] Ayan was embarrassed about her experiences. “My first time, sold to a 40 some year old man, he gave me 4000 Yuan, and 100 Yuan for the cab.”

“It was disgusting, in the beginning I could not eat, always feels the animal blood is still in my body.”

Wearing a pair of dark sun glasses, carrying 2 little bags, she dressed casually walking on the street. Almost no one would have thought she used to pretend to be a virgin selling her body for half a year. July 2^nd when Ayan (阿燕) not her real name) came to see the reporter, she seemed worried her hands were shaking. After some time of conversation, she calmed down, told the reporter that half year of her experiences.

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NDDaily reports Flood hits Guangxi province Geshui county over 20 towns and cities. The most severely affected is the county capital. Most of the south and central area of the town were heavily flooded. Major streets’ traffic are disrupted, most of the stores are under water.

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When the news on Huston Rockets All star center Yao Ming’s (姚明) foot injury could keep him out of next season, and potentially end his career reached China whole country was sad and sorry to hear that. However Chinese sports writers directed the attentions to Houston Rockets’ team physician Tom Clanton. In this and “The truth about Rockets’ quack doctor who let the giant fall” author gave several reasons on how Clanton is a quack doctor that swindled many professional athletes.

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A third year female student at Guangdong Business University was killed because of her beauty. School security guard 22-year-old Zheng Chenlue (郑成略) after pursuing her and got rejected several times, filled with hate on August 14^th 2008 he carried a knife ones again demanded her to be his girl friend. After being rejected again he took her hostage into the men’s room raped and killed her. Yesterday, the Guangzhou Municipal Intermediate People’s Court sentenced Zheng to death in the first instance.

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QQ blogger blogged about underage girls on Chinese marriage seeking website they are as young as 12, 13 years old. www.hunlian.cn is the website address, hunlian (婚恋) means fall in love and get married in Chinese.

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After the incident of Shanghai 13 Story Building Collapse netizens “human flesh searched” the real estate developers of Meidu (梅都) Real Estate Development Company Limited. A report posted everywhere on the internet listed every single one of the share holders.

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[nddaily] When I saw Zeng Junjie (曾俊杰), this 22 year old young man from Guangdong province is on the verge of death. On June 28^th 2:30 am, he was riding an electric bicycle, during the accident he was sent flying by a car driven by a Guangzhou traffic policeman, resulting in serious brain injury. Doctor says he has maximum of 2 days to live.

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From NetEase: June 27^th 5:30 am Shanghai Minhang district a 13 story building in “Lotus River Garden” Residential collapsed, resulting one death. The building was unoccupied and still under construction.

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From NetEase: CFP reported on June 26, Nanjing many fans gathered in front of 1912 plaza to pay tribute to the sudden death of superstar Michael Jackson. Fans played Jackson’s music, lit candles and prayed for their idol in silent.

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From NetEase Blog by Zhang Yanbin (臧彦彬):

This morning heard the news of Michael Jackson’s death I felt sorrow and regret. This world lost a great musician.

Jackson is the representative of an era. He represented a prosperous era, this era is irreplaceable. I feel very lucky to be the one who first officially introduced Jackson’s music to people of China in 1994.

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 DW-World: Well-known Chinese dissident, writer in Beijing Liu Xiaobo (刘晓波) after being house arrested by the police at a secret location for over six month, is formally arrested for “suspicion of inciting subversion of state power”. This also means that the case against Liu Xiaobo officially launched judicial proceedings.

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From Reuters: New York city has yellow cabs, London has black cabs and soon China will also have black cabs. In a joint venture with a Chinese company, London’s black cabs will soon be out on Chinese streets. » » » » Continue reading ‘London’s Iconic Cabs Hit China’

One Chinese Blogger posted his view on “Transformers 2” on QQ:

Basically, “Transformers 2” is more “transformed” than “Transformers”, but writing a regular file critic is like “please write down the feeling of driving a Chevrolet” or “please analyze the characteristics of how KFC taste” dry and boring. Therefore, I will write it unconventionally.

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From Popyard:

June 17 to June 20, Hubei province Shishou (石首) (city) a hotel chef’s strange death caused tens of thousands of people gathering and road blocking. Party secretary of Hubei Province Luo Qingquan (罗清泉) and Hubei governor Li Hongzhong (李鸿忠) visited the city to dispose the case. Till 20^th to 21^st morning, the situation has gradually subsided. The corpse were in the hotel were sent to a funeral parlor and crowd dispersed.

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