“And are youths the miasma of apathetic subservience to authority? But you say to yourselves, “Well, you know, what do we seek in life? We seek a rice bowl, full!”

“…he spends night after night creating Chinese subtitles for American sitcoms and dramas for a mushrooming audience of Chinese viewers who download them from the Internet free through services like BitTorrent.”

“This so called pesticide cocktail in major colas is a cocktail indeed - a cocktail of politics, psuedo science, posturing and ba economics”

A condom brand named after popular country singer Tom Dundee was, today, banned by the Thai Culture Ministry because, in Thai, Dundee means “good penetration.”
“It’s ambiguous, boastful and provocative,” explained a Ministry spokesman.

The OpenNet Initiative has released a report on Internet filtering in Vietnam.

“(Kyodo) _ About 100 people were killed when police opened fire on protesters in central China last week, media reports said Monday.
The clash between 1,000 police officers and hundreds of protesters who had been staged protests since late July occurred

Along with a few other things I’ve been reading about Olympic preparations, I decided to write a “what-if” article, imagining what sort of news piece might appear after August 24, 2008.