Chinese Communist Propaganda Posters from Mao Zedong Era
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Most of us who have used a Windows PC know what a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) is. Well, there could be no more perfect timing for a BSOD than this. Right when Li Ning was rounding the lip of the Bird's Nest during the climax of the torch-lighting ceremony, someone snapped this photo of the familiar BSOD most of us have seen at one time or another.

Actually, perhaps it's the advertising firm that's racist, while the basketball team is just plain stupid. Both of Spain's Olympic basketball teams posed for an ad for a courier company (a sponsor of the Spanish Basketball Federation), while pulling their eyes back in a slant-eyed manner.
The man’s point, as I took it, was that certainly, we should all take the initiative to push our local and state governments to support environmental sustainability. However, it’s a two way street and the other side starts with individual action.

Four giant panda cubs were born within 14 hours at a breeding center in southwest China, a mini baby boom for the rare animals, a state news agency reported Sunday.
Lines continue to circle city blocks in America as people line up to get iPhone 3Gs are Apple Stores around the country. Since Apple started opening dedicated retail stores in 2001, however, there have been none in China. That drought ended on Saturday as the first Chinese Apple retail store opened in Beijing’s Sanlitun Village.

CECT P168 is a hot model as being the first Iphone clone in china, it has many decent features that make it shine on the mobile phone market.

Companies that were sued over contaminated pet food linked to the deaths of perhaps thousands of dogs and cats have agreed to pay $24 million to pet owners in the United States and Canada.
A government warning of a major aftershock sent thousands of panicked survivors running into the darkened streets Monday night following an unprecedented display of mourning for more than 34,000 people killed in a powerful earthquake one week ago
The numbers are almost too large to fathom, so many Americans stop trying. As bodies pile up in disaster after global disaster, even the most sympathetic souls can turn away.
A high-speed passenger train jumped its tracks and slammed into another train in eastern China on Monday, killing at least 70 people and injuring more than 400 in China’s worst train accident in a decade.
CHINA only has enough coal for 12 days of consumption, three days less than a month ago, state media reported Wednesday, sounding the alarm bells over the nation's most important source of energy.
At least there's one thing: cigarettes in this case are being put to a good use, chest-wise. A 51-year-old man from Taining in China's Guangdong province is using a do-it-yourself approach to patch up a hole in his chest: cigarette packs.
Simply stated, it had to happen; the sheer number of people in China meant that it was a foregone conclusion. The only question was when. A study, admittedly by a Chinese research group, indicates that China has surpassed the United States, long the leader, in the number of Internet users.
China on Tuesday accused “Tibet independence forces” of planning to use suicide squads to trigger bloody attacks — the latest in a string of accusations that have taken aim at supporters of the Dalai Lama.

The RIAA, MPAA, and anyone else you can think of concerned with piracy have a new friend: Attorney General Michael Mukasey. In a gathering of Silicon Valley executives and media at the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, California, Mukasey warned that piracy and counterfeiting profits are funding terrorism.

The riots in Tibet two weeks ago have turned into a major challenge to China's leaders, whose decision to use military force and restrict media access has cast a shadow over hopes for an unblemished Olympics this summer.

Tibetan monks stormed a news briefing at a temple in Lhasa on Thursday, accusing Chinese authorities of lying about recent unrest and saying the Dalai Lama had nothing to do with the violence, foreign reporters said.

You might wonder why this would be such a big deal, but remember how China feels about Taiwan: Beijing deems Taiwan to be part of China and thus any U.S. arms sales to Taiwan are (quite naturally) looked askance at.
Tibetans in China's tense southwestern province of Sichuan on Friday said they believed several people had been killed in anti-Chinese riots there this week, disputing official claims that none died.
