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Coming Collapse of China” author reports that China is still collapsing.
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“Spotted and snapped by Japundit reader Alex Kane in the Ikebukuro District of Tokyo, where sexual harassment seems to have become a business opportunity.”
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“Beach volleyball’s penchant for bikinis has touched off a bit of a cultural clash in this conservative Muslim city”
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“Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) has announced its top ten list of finalists for the 2006 Robot Award The ten robots selected from 152 applications fall into four categories — service robots, industrial robots, public-sector robots, and small- to medium-sized venture robots.
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“The town council of KB has decided that women wearing clothes which are body hugging or emphasise the ass such as the cheongsam (Chinese traditional dress) are liable to a RM 500 fine.”
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“Those outside of China often imagine hordes of Internet savvy Chinese Web surfers scouring the Internet for cracks in the Great Firewall, avidly downloading precious snippets of information blocked by the government …This image is largely a myth.”
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“This weekend, an editorial in China Youth Daily, a newspaper published by the Chinese Communist Youth League, said the debate over the proposed real-name Web registration system in China, while “animated”, had shown an unprecedented degree of civility, with emotions less prominent and more “reasoned criticisms approaching [the question] from a technological standpoint”.
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“Gutenberg.org, the website of Project Gutenberg, “the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks,†is blocked for me here at Beihang University in Beijing.”
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“First, hitting your husband in the face with a Wiimote is not acceptable even if you’re pregnant. Do not blame it on your hormones.”