This is Shanghai [video]

Obama Is Checking Your Email – A New Photo Blog

If you’re following the shady things that the US government has been caught doing in regards to your privacy, you may get a kick out of this photo blog of President Obama doing a little spying of his own.

Check out Obama Is Checking Your Email HERE

Highrise Apartments of Hong Kong [pics]

Here’s a rather unusual set of photos. It consists of pics of the tall cracker box apartments in Hong Kong, by photographer Michael Wolf.

Check out the pics HERE

Michael Wolf’s site HERE

 

 

Harsh Nature – Typhoon Photos

My new favorite photo blog, TheFabWeb, published an excellent set of photographs that document people’s struggling against the fury of typhoons.

Check out the pics HERE

Rarely Seen Views Of China’s Great Wall [pics]

Kuriositas.com published a collection of rather unusual photos of the Great Wall of China. My favorite (below) is the one where the wall ends as it meets the sea.

See all the pics HERE

 

Moments In China [video]

10 Motorcyclists In 1 Sphere Of Death [video]

Happy Labor Day! [cartoon]

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China Investigates Pills Made From Dead Babies – Chinese Viagra?

ChinaDaily reports -

BEIJING / CHANGCHUN – The Ministry of Health said on Tuesday that it has launched an investigation in the wake of a media report in South Korea about capsules from China – made from the flesh of dead babies – being used as stamina boosters. Deng Haihua, spokesman of the ministry, said on Tuesday that the ministry has instructed its provincial agency in Jilin to look into the case. Deng said China has strict management of disposal of infant and fetal remains as well as placentas. “Any practice that handles the remains as medical waste is strictly prohibited,” Deng said. According to the country’s regulations, medical institutions and their staff are prohibited from trading corpses. The Global Times reported on Monday that SBS, one of the three major national television networks in South Korea, broadcast a documentary on Aug 6 about the appearance of capsules from China containing dead baby flesh. According to the report, the TV program warned that some of the capsules were taken by Koreans. The television team claimed to have been to China, found the hospital that sold the materials, and taken video of the manufacturing process. It quoted insiders saying the “tonic” capsules are mainly sent to South Korea through members of the Korean ethnic group in China.

Continue reading HERE.

 

US Navy’s Bargain Hunting Is A Costly Mistake – Counterfeit Chips From China Could Disable Weapons

BusinessInsider reports -

Last year, the U.S. Navy bought 59,000 microchips for use in everything from missiles to transponders and all of them turned out to be counterfeits from China. Wired reports the chips weren’t only low-quality fakes, they had been made with a “back-door” and could have been remotely shut down at any time. If left undiscovered the result could have rendered useless U.S. missiles and killed the signal from aircraft that tells everyone whether it’s friend or foe. Apparently foreign chip makers are often better at making cheap microchips and U.S. defense contractors are loathe to pass up the better deal. The problem remains with these “trojan-horse” circuits that can be built into the chip and are almost impossible to detect — especially without the original plans to compare them to.

Continue reading HERE.

 

 

Chinese Genetically Modify Herd Of Cows To Produce Human Milk [video]

WSJ Recommends Investing In China – Makes Eventual Takeover More Efficient

WallStreet Journal reports -

We’re perfectly happy eating in a Chinese restaurant. But will we start banking in a Chinese bank? It’s not as crazy as it sounds. As The Wall Street Journal’s Lingling Wei reported Wednesday, the Bank of China here in the U.S. has started allowing American customers to open an account and to invest up to $4,000 per day—and a total of $20,000 a year—in Chinese yuan, or renminbi. Until now, you had few options to hold money in yuan, which is a “closed” currency managed, and protected, by Beijing. The bank has three U.S. branches—two in New York, and one in Los Angeles. You’ll have to fill out paperwork to open an account and provide two forms of ID. And there’s a minimum deposit of $500. Is this a good idea? You may wonder why anyone would do this. Investing in Chinese currency may sound like something best left to speculators.

To find out why you should do this, continue reading HERE.