CHINA - Chinabounder’s back and he’s mad

“Last year a blog named Chinabounder that recounted the foreign blogger’s sexual experiences with Chinese women enraged a professor at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. The professor started an Internet manhunt that scared Chinabounder into silence… But now China Bounder is back, and he’s fighting mad.”

CHINA - The Inevitable Collapse of China’s Banks

“Peek behind the Wizard of Oz’s (or Shanghai’s) curtain, and you’ll see that China’s double-digit percentage growth rates are an economic sleight of hand that have come at a price of escalating bad debt and non-performing loans. At the end of 2004, bank debt in China stood at $3.7 trillion — about twice the size of its GDP.”

CHINA - Has Google Failed in China?

“I am going to buck the trend of most analysts and argue that Google has a huge opportunity in China to retake market share from Baidu if it can get the right management team in place, delegate authority to them, and localize services.”

CHINA - The Mass Incident in Dazhu County

” Finally, here is a mass incident that deserves the n me. You can compare the official version versus the unofficial versio s on blogs and forums (more precisely, as found in the Baidu and Google blogs because the subject is banned.”

INDONESIA - Jakarta floods leave the question: Who is to blame?

“It is impossible to stop the rain. But it is possible to minimize floods, or at least be prepared them. Unfortunately, what (has) happened in Jakarta (is) just the opposite. It (has) long been predicted that major flooding would hit the city. In 1996, it was severely affected, and then, there was a warning such a disaster could happen once every five years. “

The above is taken from the website of the Indonesia Water Partnership and was written, yes, five years ago.

JAPAN - Journal of an American in Japanese prison

“George wrote the journal while spending a few weeks in a Japanese Ryuchijyo (”Prison for people that haven’t yet been convicted of any crime”). In part one, George explained what he did to land in prison (basically, he behaved like a drunk, violent jerk and hurt a cab driver).”