December 30, 2004

‘Counterfeit eggs appear in China’

http://www.interfax.com/com?item=Chin&pg=0&id=5782425&req=
Posted by Dan Washburn at 3:40 PM | Comments (1)

Free online Chinese flashcards

http://flashcardexchange.com/directory/1591.html
Posted by Dan Washburn at 3:33 PM

People’s Daily names top sports events of 2004

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200412/30/eng20041230_169190.html
Posted by Dan Washburn at 3:29 PM

China hates Nike

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20041230/od_uk_nm/oukoe_china_nike_2 stickman3.jpg
Posted by Dan Washburn at 3:19 PM

Bad news for Bush

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/index.html#fbuchanan
Posted by Dan Washburn at 3:01 PM

Big surprise: China does something to piss off Japan

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20041230b1.htm
Posted by Dan Washburn at 2:38 PM

Sloganeering

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-12/28/content_2387640.htm
Posted by Dan Washburn at 2:31 PM

December 29, 2004

‘China’s Elite Learn to Flaunt It While the New Landless Weep’

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/25/international/asia/25china.html?oref=login NYTchinaselite.jpg
Posted by Dan Washburn at 2:55 AM

It’s damn cold in Shanghai

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-12/28/content_403863.htm
Posted by Dan Washburn at 2:50 AM

‘The road to Double Happiness’

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0412280342dec28,1,20626.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed
Posted by Dan Washburn at 2:38 AM

‘World’s top 10 athletes in 2004’

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200412/28/eng20041228_168973.html schumacher.jpg
Posted by Dan Washburn at 2:30 AM

‘Top 10 news stories in China in 2004’

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200412/28/eng20041228_168904.html
Posted by Dan Washburn at 2:20 AM

December 28, 2004

Chinese hacker hits McDonald’s site

http://sg.biz.yahoo.com/041227/1/3pi0b.html
Posted by Dan Washburn at 9:43 AM

Chinese kids taught sex … through cartoons

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-12/27/content_403535.htm
Posted by Dan Washburn at 9:34 AM

‘Growth leaves China high and dry’

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-12/27/content_403714.htm nowater.jpg
Posted by Dan Washburn at 9:26 AM

‘Eating on public transport debated’

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-12/27/content_2384676.htm
Posted by Dan Washburn at 9:18 AM

Shanghai installs GPS in garbage trucks

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-12/27/content_2384610.htm
Posted by Dan Washburn at 9:07 AM

Shanghai ain’t London

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-12/27/content_2384571.htm
Posted by Dan Washburn at 8:59 AM

Fox’s Daddy show: A new low?

http://www.journalnow.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WSJ%2FMGArticle%2FWSJ_RelishArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031779870700&path=!news!entertainment!television&s=1037645508994
Posted by Dan Washburn at 8:56 AM

53 percent of Chinese speak Mandarin

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-12/26/content_403419.htm
Posted by Dan Washburn at 8:51 AM

December 27, 2004

‘A Corner of China in the Grip of a Lucrative Heroin Habit’

http://www.howardwfrench.com/archives/2004/12/23/banlao_journal_a_corner_of_china_in_the_grip_of_a_lucrative_heroin_habit/
Posted by Dan Washburn at 2:33 AM

Merry Christmas! (Now, go have sex)

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-12/24/content_403079.htm
Posted by Dan Washburn at 2:28 AM

‘A Chinese takeover’

http://www.detnews.com/2004/business/0412/26/B01-42037.htm
Posted by Dan Washburn at 2:24 AM

China: Fast food nation

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6754891/
Posted by Dan Washburn at 2:19 AM

Tons of China trivia

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200412/22/eng20041222_168283.html
Posted by Dan Washburn at 2:10 AM

Fat? Try some tea

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-12/23/content_2373087.htm
Posted by Dan Washburn at 2:05 AM

December 23, 2004

Admit it, Santa kind of freaks you out

http://www.southflorida.com/events/sfl-scaredsanta,0,2245506.photogallery?coll=sfe-events-headlines&index=1—————————————————————————————————————— scaredofsanta.jpg
Posted by Dan Washburn at 2:05 PM

Introducing the ‘sarcasm point’ — ยก

http://slate.msn.com/id/2111172/fr/rss/
Posted by Dan Washburn at 1:58 PM

Asian ‘Jingle Bells’

http://www.sinosplice.com/weblog/archives/001482.php
Posted by Dan Washburn at 1:53 PM

The Beastles

http://halley.lunarpages.com/~djbc002/beastles/
Posted by Dan Washburn at 1:49 PM | Comments (1)

Mexican city bans indoor nudity

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200412/23/eng20041223_168371.html
Posted by Dan Washburn at 1:43 PM

‘Mistress killers’ come to Shanghai

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-12/23/content_402659.htm
Posted by Dan Washburn at 1:35 PM

China won’t let Nike ad die quietly

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-12/22/content_2367984.htm
Posted by Dan Washburn at 1:31 PM

China to institute ‘vagrant tracking system’

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-12/22/content_402423.htm
Posted by Dan Washburn at 1:22 PM

China really gets into the Christmas spirit

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-12/23/content_2371463.htm
Posted by Dan Washburn at 1:13 PM

‘Fart Bomb’: Silent, almost deadly

http://www.gadsdentimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041222/API/412220959&cachetime=5
Posted by Dan Washburn at 1:01 PM

Beware, Shanghai: Wal-Mart is coming!

http://en.ce.cn/Industries/Retailing/200412/22/t20041222_2645178.shtml
Posted by Dan Washburn at 12:48 PM

Robbie Williams Laments Giving Up Drugs

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=495&e=3&u=/ap/20041221/ap_en_mu/people_robbie_williams
Posted by Dan Washburn at 12:44 PM

Murdoch ‘building China home’

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,11759333%255E13780,00.html
Posted by Dan Washburn at 12:38 PM

December 21, 2004

The Shanghainese dialect is dying

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-adfg-polyglot19dec19,0,630421.story?coll=la-home-world tom_and_jerry.jpg
Posted by Dan Washburn at 6:59 PM

“Merry Christmas” is this year’s “F**k you”

http://www.slate.com/id/2111014/#red
Posted by Dan Washburn at 6:53 PM | Comments (1)

In Shanghai, many are unlucky in love

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-12/21/content_2361172.htm
Posted by Dan Washburn at 6:46 PM

Zhao Wei: Trying hard to become China’s Lil’ Kim

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-12/21/content_401923.htm zhaowei.jpg
Posted by Dan Washburn at 6:38 PM

Wine may have originated in China

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/health_science/articles/2004/12/21/wine_may_have_originated_in_china/
Posted by Dan Washburn at 6:24 PM

‘For First Time, Most Say Iraq War Was a Mistake’

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1802&e=1&u=/washpost/20041221/ts_washpost/a14266_2004dec20’
Posted by Dan Washburn at 5:57 PM

China: Boxing no longer “dangerous”

http://www.espnstar.com/jsp/cda/other/aid=1352025other_newsdetail.html
Posted by Dan Washburn at 5:15 PM

They hate us. They all hate us.

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000039&refer=columnist_pesek&sid=aIEOQx53yalU
Posted by Dan Washburn at 5:06 PM

December 20, 2004

The ‘English to 12-Year-Old AOLer Translator’

http://ssshotaru.homestead.com/files/aolertranslator.html
Posted by Dan Washburn at 9:11 PM

‘China rubbishes its Oscar favourite’

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-12/20/content_401722.htm flyingdaggers.jpg
Posted by Dan Washburn at 2:55 PM | Comments (2)

‘Get out. Shit.’

http://www.sinosplice.com/weblog/archives/001478.php
Posted by Dan Washburn at 2:47 PM

Xiamen or bust

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-12/19/content_2353886.htm
Posted by Dan Washburn at 2:29 PM

China’s in love with an “alien beauty”

http://www.danwei.org/archives/001152.html pamela_anderson_in_china.jpg
Posted by Dan Washburn at 2:20 PM

‘Your blog or mine?’

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/19/magazine/19PHENOM.html?oref=login&pagewanted=1&8hpib&oref=login
Posted by Dan Washburn at 2:19 PM

In defense of Shanghai’s street vendors

http://edu.sina.com.cn/en/2004-12-20/28674.html
Posted by Dan Washburn at 1:27 PM

December 17, 2004

If you see a Chinese police car … RUN!!!

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200412/16/eng20041216_167572.html#
Posted by Dan Washburn at 11:15 AM

Aww … Cute Chinese babies

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-11/19/content_393077.htm
Posted by Dan Washburn at 10:56 AM

In Shanghai, one in three marriages end in divorce

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1547&ncid=1547&e=13&u=/afp/20041216/lf_afp/afplifestylechina_041216161337
Posted by Dan Washburn at 10:52 AM | Comments (1)

Meet Japan’s only certified Santa

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1547&ncid=1547&e=12&u=/afp/20041214/lf_afp/afplifestylechristmastraditionjapan_041214063849
Posted by Dan Washburn at 10:42 AM

Stock up on those $1 DVDs

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20041216/media_nm/trade_china_piracy_dc
Posted by Dan Washburn at 10:37 AM

A “final blessing from God”

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-12/16/content_400791.htm
Posted by Dan Washburn at 10:18 AM

‘China in Olympic-size stink over dumped dead pets’

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/PEK232807.htm
Posted by Dan Washburn at 10:12 AM

‘Staggered hours to save power in Shanghai’

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-12/16/content_2340567.htm
Posted by Dan Washburn at 10:09 AM

Prison Poetry: Shanghai inmates get published

http://en.ce.cn/Life/social/200412/16/t20041216_2587532.shtml
Posted by Dan Washburn at 9:55 AM

December 16, 2004

Pam Anderson: Appearing naked at a Chinese billboard near you?

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=494&e=5&u=/ap/20041215/ap_en_tv/people_anderson
Posted by Dan Washburn at 11:14 AM

Chinese love Pizza Hut salads … too much

http://www.boingboing.net/2004/12/10/salad_bar_hacking.html
Posted by Dan Washburn at 11:10 AM

Chinese women talk about sex

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-12/04/content_397356.htm
Posted by Dan Washburn at 11:07 AM

China cans TV sex show two weeks before premiere

http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=7089754
Posted by Dan Washburn at 11:00 AM

Japanese men nap on fake female laps

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-12/15/content_400261.htm#
Posted by Dan Washburn at 10:34 AM | Comments (1)

China’s miners get the shaft

http://www.mytelus.com/news/article.do?pageID=world_home&articleID=1793499
Posted by Dan Washburn at 10:25 AM

China’s gays have much sex, little HIV knowledge

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/122384/1/.html
Posted by Dan Washburn at 10:17 AM

Singapore: Gay Xmas party an “affront and unacceptable”

http://sg.news.yahoo.com/041215/1/3p9nt.html
Posted by Dan Washburn at 9:53 AM

December 14, 2004

America: Home of the free?

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=1895&e=2&u=/nm/20041213/pl_nm/arts_monkeys_dc
Posted by Dan Washburn at 12:19 PM

Hu’s Your Daddy: China detains three critics

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/14/international/asia/14china.html?ex=1260680400&en=a8011ca15110208d&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt
Posted by Dan Washburn at 10:15 AM

China’s billionaire boom

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-13264285,00.html
Posted by Dan Washburn at 10:06 AM

December 13, 2004

UFO spotted in western China

http://web.mid-day.com/news/world/2004/december/99305.htm
Posted by Dan Washburn at 7:55 PM

Chinese police round up ‘grandpa gang’

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=qw1102911492630B254
Posted by Dan Washburn at 7:53 PM

China ‘no longer needs food aid’

http://www.anonymization.net/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4090979.stm
Posted by Dan Washburn at 7:51 PM

‘Sun Yat-Sen’ con man gets 11 years

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/121780/1/.html
Posted by Dan Washburn at 12:04 PM

China: Welcome to Wal-Mart country

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6700787/site/newsweek
Posted by Dan Washburn at 10:09 AM

Chinese coal mines: Down and dangerous

http://economist.com/World/asia/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3446862
Posted by Dan Washburn at 10:06 AM

Beijing ‘toilet valets’ to speak English

http://www.menafn.com/qn_news_story.asp?StoryId=CqBVqueidy2HPBMeTDg9PBgv0C3bLywS
Posted by Dan Washburn at 10:01 AM

Cashing in on China’s travel boom

http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/sub/topstories/story/0,5562,290208,00.html?
Posted by Dan Washburn at 9:58 AM

‘Foreign newspapers are coming!’

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-12/12/content_2324003.htm
Posted by Dan Washburn at 9:54 AM

China ready to crown ‘Miss Plastic Surgery’

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041212/ap_on_re_as/china_manmade_beauties_2
Posted by Dan Washburn at 9:47 AM

Are human rights worsening in China?

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-12/12/content_399539.htm
Posted by Dan Washburn at 9:26 AM

Mickey Mao

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/12/12/wchin12.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/12/12/ixworld.html
Posted by Dan Washburn at 9:09 AM

December 12, 2004

Chinese tourists allowed to visit US

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-12/09/content_2312831.htm
Posted by Dan Washburn at 12:53 AM

December 11, 2004

China ‘accepting homosexuality’

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-12/10/content_2316269.htm
Posted by Dan Washburn at 10:20 PM

December 10, 2004

Oh, so Beckham is Joseph

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=529&e=7&u=/ap/20041209/ap_en_ot/britain_nativity_scene
Posted by Dan Washburn at 6:17 PM

shanghaistreets.net

http://www.shanghaistreets.net
Posted by Dan Washburn at 4:30 PM | Comments (1)

China: We’re tough on … video games!

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041209/ap_on_hi_te/china_banned_game_1
Posted by Dan Washburn at 12:03 PM | Comments (1)

If this doesn’t make you sad …

http://journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/chinadn/en/archives/004064.html
Posted by Dan Washburn at 11:48 AM

Who is the new Confucius?

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/books/12/09/bobisms.reut/index.html
Posted by Dan Washburn at 2:15 AM

December 8, 2004

Template for new journos in China

http://www.thatsmagazines.com/features/index.asp?sectionid=60&location=bj&view=detail&articleid=995
Posted by Dan Washburn at 11:49 AM | Comments (1)

December 7, 2004

‘Your Call Is Very Important to Us …’

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20041206/od_nm/odd_china_suicide_dc_1
Posted by Dan Washburn at 8:52 PM

China’s Textbooks Twist and Omit History

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/06/international/asia/06textbook.html
Posted by Dan Washburn at 2:32 AM

December 4, 2004

In Shanghai, only 21 shopping days left until … (blank)

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/f330fea0-451c-11d9-8fcf-00000e2511c8.html
Posted by Dan Washburn at 1:35 PM

Bush doesn’t know dick about sex

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20041202/ts_alt_afp/us_education_sex_041202233602
Posted by Dan Washburn at 1:26 PM

December 2, 2004

The Arcade Fire Funeral

http://www.arcadefire.com
Posted by Dan Washburn at 8:53 PM | Comments (2)

December 1, 2004

Asia Blog Awards 2004

http://simonworld.mu.nu/archives/056973.php
Posted by Dan Washburn at 9:56 PM

Shanghai installs smart condom machines

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-11/30/content_2275656.htm
Posted by Dan Washburn at 9:55 PM

China’s Donkey Droppings

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/01/opinion/01kristof.html?ex=1102482000&en=756dec7d823a39f2&ei=5006&partner=ALTAVISTA1
Posted by Dan Washburn at 9:53 PM

What the hell is an advent calendar?

http://www.serialdeviant.org/projects/advent2004/index.html
Posted by Dan Washburn at 9:47 PM

A Very Special Sedaris Christmas

http://www.thislife.org/pages/descriptions/97/87.html
Posted by Dan Washburn at 9:42 PM

Call China from the US

http://www.caribone.com/cardshop/c_rates.cfm?cc=40
Posted by Dan Washburn at 1:20 PM