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The leaders fight the drought (Xinhua) When does a drought become news? Droughts aren’t like most other kinds of disaster. They don’t usually happen overnight. They’re not like the brief dusting of snow that brought Britain’s... ...full story at Black & White Cat

from Black & White Cat on Sun, Feb 08 2009

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12 Feb 08 visit Chinese Complain False News Exacerbated Snow Disaster  »  YouTube videoChinese complain the Communist Party's false news reporting intensified the snow disaster in China Hunan province of China is the area most seriously affected by the snow storm attacks. Residents there complain that the local Communist authorities...
03 May 09 visit Catching up  »  Peking Duck I don’t know why things feel so slow in China news-wise. Looking over the blogs, it seems the most interesting posts aren’t dealing with breaking news, but rather with advice (always carry your passport and don’t co-habitate - a kind of...
10 Jul 08 visit Scrap on the road …  »  Shanghai Scrap I’m traveling through the weekend, so there’s almost no chance that I’ll post before Monday. But fear not: there’s plenty of China blogging and news to be found elsewhere. Perhaps consider visiting Granite Studio’s Asian...
02 Oct 09 visit 60th anniversary hangover  »  Peking Duck Go here now for one of my favorite blogger’s take on yesterday’s extravaganza and the following hangover. If comments aren’t open there, you can leave them here. Now, I’m not saying I agree with everything Jeremiah says,...
17 Jan 09 visit “China is the place to be”  »  Peking Duck Here in China it’s a wretched time for Pu’er tea investors, but otherwise things aren’t necessarily as grim as the newspapers might lead you to believe. At least that’s the claim of this China business blogger who just returned...
15 Jul 07 visit Let’s play I-Spy in China!  »  Lost Laowai Here’s a variation on the common “I spy” game, which might already be familiar to anyone who grew up in Britain and knows the ‘I-SPY’ children’s book series, such as ‘I-SPY in the Street’, ‘I-SPY Cars’,...

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