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Chinese-style Christmas

It’s weird, most Chinese are not Christian, but Christmas is very popular in China. Of course, the traditional Western holiday changes a lot in this country.
Every thing, the culture, the food, can be adapted to suit different people’s tastes. For example, Chinese food found in the states taste very different from tradition ones. The holiday is no exception.
At first, Xmas [...]

Email shows personal cn domain sales were legal

As we refered the day before yesterday, CNNIC just forbidened personal cn domains sales. They claimed, personal cn domain sales were never allowed. But, is that true?

What a pity! According to an email showed today by some guy, we could see the truth. Below, is the original content of the Email, just have a look first.

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Shaolin Monk VS Chinese Chengguan

Chinese Chengguan:
The City Urban Administrative and Law Enforcement Bureau, also known as Chengguan, is a local government agency that has been established in every city in the People’s Republic of China.
At first, The chengguan are employed to keep public order in China’s urban neighborhood, and deal with low-level crime and disorder.  But their reputation for brutality has [...]

China forbidened .cn domain sales to personal users

From 9.am today, no personal users are allowed to register a .cn domain. Corporation users have to supply with written applications containing corporation details. Haha, once again, China Internet Network Information Center(CNNIC) fooled the country, fooled the people.

“Dates with Wonderful movies” (CCTV) auditorium collapsed

Yesterday (13) 9:30 pm, Beijing Vocational College of Agriculture, a studio audience bleacher collapsed.

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China blocked Yeeyan.com on Dec 1

On December 1 2009, Yeeyan.com was forced to stop the web service.
Yeeyan.com is the first Open and Fully Community-based translate platform in China, which startup in 2006.
It is determined to discover, translate, read the essence of the Internet other than Chinese, to create more value for the Chinese Internet.
During the three years, members of Yeeyan.com [...]