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Chinese Fighting Crickets

          They were plucked from the fields, the ones with the blackest faces, largest bodies, and loudest singing voices. And now they will fight, perhaps to a death by decapitation, quite possibly to a loss of limbs. They fight... ...full story at China Expat

from China Expat on Thu, Sep 24 2009

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12 Jul 07 visit The Fighting Crickets  »  YouTube videoIn China everyone knows the Province of Nanjing. It is the world of the most frightening fighting crickets - really tiny fighters which fascinate Chinese people. A small insect weighing a few grams is as expensive as a cow over there.
14 Apr 08 visit Faces of Death?  »  Opposite End of China Click over to The New Dominion for information about a video possibly showing the execution of three Chinese hostages by Uyghur terrorists... emphasis on the word possibly.
06 Dec 08 visit Official: China faces "grave" situation in fight against corruption  »  People's Daily A top Chinese official on Friday said the country still faces a grave situation in the fight against corruption, which requires more intensive anti-graft campaigns among officials. He Guoqiang, secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC)...
12 Oct 09 visit One given the death sentence for Shaoguan toy factory fight  »  Danwei From Reuters: A court in southern China has handed out a death sentence to a man involved in a brawl in July blamed for being the trigger to deadly riots in the restive far western region of Xinjiang. State media said the fight erupted between a group...
22 Apr 09 visit Coal use top villain in fight for clean skies  »  Shanghai Daily CHINA faces a "grave" situation in its fight against air pollution, since coal remains the dominant energy source, according to a report submitted yesterday for review by the Standing Committee of the National People's...
13 Oct 08 visit Fatal fight: police held  »  Shanghai Daily SIX police in Harbin have been detained for their involvement in a fight which led to the death of a 22-year-old man. The Public Security Bureau of Harbin, the capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province,...

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