The man who was murdered on Beijing’s Drum Tower is Todd Bachman, the CEO of a 123-year-old Minnesota-based home and garden center. That might not make much of an impression if you didn’t grow up in the Twin Cities. But if you did, then it was... ...full story at Shanghai Scrap
from Shanghai Scrap on Sun, Aug 10 2008
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Gulou - Beijing Drum Tower »
YouTube video riginally built in 1272 during the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368), the Drum Tower has undergone repair on several occasions during the Yuan and Ming (1368-1644) Dynasties, remaining largely unchanged through its current state. The drum tower was used to mark... |
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A Sudden Incident Casts a Pall in Beijing » China Journal A Chinese man attacked two American tourists and their Chinese guide at a popular Beijing attraction today, killing one of them before committing suicide. Beijing’s Drum Tower, scene of today’s tragic attack (AP photo) The incident has... |
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Chinese man kills an American tourist, injures another, and leaps to his death at Beijing's Drum Tower » Shanghaiist From AP: A Chinese man attacked the two Americans -- a man and a woman and their Chinese tourist guide -- around 12:20 p.m. on the second level of the Drum Tower, a popular tourist attraction in north Beijing, the official Xinhua News Agency... |
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Indigenous Chinese, the Fuloong mini computer » Virtual China We reported over a year ago on the release of the first mini-PC based on a China-developed processor. But according to Fool’s Mountain, it seems like that it either didn’t really ship or perhaps it didn’t register on his radar. So, there... |
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Whiteboard Tower Defense » Humanaught There is simply nothing more fun than Whiteboard Tower Defense. I’ve completed the easy (30 lvls) and normal (50 lvls) settings, with a high score of 6,653,139 - and I can’t wait to try the 50 hard levels. If you’re short on ways to kill... |
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Welcome to China: No Politics, No Cocoon. » Shanghai Scrap Jay Weiner of MinnPost, an online news site based in the Twin Cities, has covered every Olympics dating back to Los Angeles, at least. He’s a very good, very respected writer, and he’s just arrived in Beijing, to this welcome: … [a]s I... |
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