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On Saturday the Philippines rejected Taiwan's claim that one of its fisherman who was killed by Philippine coastguards on May 9 was "murdered". [ more › ]
On Saturday the Philippines rejected Taiwan's claim that one of its fisherman who was killed by Philippine coastguards on May 9 was "murdered". [ more › ]
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In the past, Shanghaiist has given China's national tabloid the Global Times some flack for its biased reporting and for its tendency to present journalism more sensational and yellow than these rape flowers that were the focus of one th...
In the past, Shanghaiist has given China's national tabloid the Global Times some flack for its biased reporting and for its tendency to present journalism more sensational and yellow than these rape flowers that were the focus of one the site's headlines. However, their journalistic timeliness was on-point Friday, the International Day Against Homophobia, when the news source published a story about US secretary Hillary Clinton revealing the "true nature of her sexuality". [ more › ]
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From Sina Weibo: @????: In the Henan province Zhoukou city judge Gao Tianfeng and daughter murder case, on the list of names given to the hired killers, which included the parents and the older sister, the offered price was 200,000 [RMB]...
From Sina Weibo: @????: In the Henan province Zhoukou city judge Gao Tianfeng and daughter murder case, on the list of names given to the hired killers, which included the parents and the older sister, the offered price was 200,000 [RMB] per person. What was fortunate was that the mother happened to not be at home that day and escaped the calamity. What makes this a tragedy is that in order to protect her younger brother that day, the older sister reverse-locked him in a room [so the killers could not get in], not knowing even as she was murdered that the hired killers were employed by her younger brother. From Sina: Henan Judge Murdered By Son’s Hired Killers: Mother Not At Home Escaped Tragedy Gao Tianfeng In the Henan Zhoukou city Intermediate Court Committee member Gao Tianfeng and daughter murder case, two assassins were hired by his own son, with the case disturbing the entire nation. On the morning of May 16th, the final suspect was arrested within the borders of Loudi [a city in Hunan]. On the afternoon of May 17th, this reporter learned even more details regarding this case from the the Hunan province Ministry of Public Security, that the 3 names on the list that Gao Tianfeng’s son gave the hired killers were actually those of his own father, mother, and elder sister, and the offering price was “200,000 RMB per person”. What was fortunate was that the mother happened to not be at home on the day of the crime, luckily escaping the tragedy. After the hired killers infiltrated Gao Tianfeng’s home, they committed the murders. What makes people sign is that the elder sister, in order to protect her younger brother, had reverse-locked him inside a room. Even as she was killed, she did not know that the hired killers were actually employed by her own younger brother. Suspect entered Hunan, many cities and prefectures mobilized police forces May 17th afternoon, Hunan Provincial Ministry of Public Security Criminal Investigation Department Serious Crimes Section Captain Zhang Jiancheng explained that after 2pm in the afternoon of May 15th, the Henan Provincial Ministry of Public Security and the Henan Zhoukou Municipal Public Security Bureau dispatched someone to hand the case over to the Hunan Provincial Ministry of Public Security, that “the third suspect has already entered Hunan”. Beginning from when they received the request for assistance, the Provincial Ministry of Public Security Vice Department Chief Hu Xuxi mobilized police forces to work with Henan police an organized a special joint-task force. According to information on the suspects provided by Henan police (including surname and physical characteristics), Hunan police employed multiple tracking methods and, through the use of rapid investigative deployment and technology, found that the suspects had one after another appeared before in places such as Changde, Yiyang, Changsha, Loudi [cities in Hunan], and that the roads they were taking were all national highways, provincial highways, and even county and town roads. The special task force determined that the suspects may be fleeing towards Guangxi province along the peripheries of the Loudi, Shaoyang, Huaihua cities, and that the roads they were taking were easy for them to remain concealed. By 5pm in the afternoon, the Loudi and Shaoyang county cities had already deployed a “large net”, establishing a dense area of control. Around 2am on the morning of May 16th, police discovered a motorcycle traveling relatively quickly on the S225 provincial highway and immediately began following it. Several hours later, Wu X was intercepted and arrested at a gas filling station on the side of the Xinhua county Yangxi town S312 provincial highway. “He was very cunning and before being caught, had discovered that police were following him, and tried to flee,” said Zhang Jiancheng. Killer has wife and child, no previous criminal record After Wu X was captured
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Huang Jiefu, former vice health minister, announced Friday plans to launch a nationwide donor network. If successful, China can stop relying on the local Shawshank as the main source of organs. [ more › ]
Huang Jiefu, former vice health minister, announced Friday plans to launch a nationwide donor network. If successful, China can stop relying on the local Shawshank as the main source of organs. [ more › ]
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In a discussion with Kingley Amis and Brian Aldiss shortly before his death in 1963, CS Lewis described a DPhil thesis (as these things are called at Oxford) in an arts subject such as English Literature as “the discovery of the mare'...
In a discussion with Kingley Amis and Brian Aldiss shortly before his death in 1963, CS Lewis described a DPhil thesis (as these things are called at Oxford) in an arts subject such as English Literature as “the discovery of the mare's nest by the pursuit of the red herring”. He goes on: “Matthew Arnold made the horrible prophesy that literature would increasingly replace religion. It has, and it's taken on all the features of bitter persecution, great intolerance, and traffic in relics. All literature becomes a sacred text. A sacred text is always exposed to the most monstrous exegesis; hence we have the spectacle of some wretched scholar taking a pure divertissement written in the seventeenth century and getting the most profound ambiguities and social criticisms out of it, which of course aren't there at all.” His conclusion? “It's an industry, you see.” If Lewis had got his way, the Oxford English Syllabus would have gone no further than 1820 and Jane Austen. While this might seem a bit radical, imagine all those blue-stockings on both sides of the Atlantic who would have had cause to thank him for saving them from having to wade through oceans of bad Victorian books while trying to convince themselves that Moby Dick is the great American novel. But, you may ask, how could the world live without definitive editions of and critical essays on Joyce, Lawrence, Pound and Eliot? The answer, I think, is in the question.
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Date: May 20th 2013 10:45a.m. Contributed by: geofferson
Date: May 20th 2013 10:45a.m. Contributed by: geofferson
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Date: May 20th 2013 10:09a.m. Contributed by: geofferson
Date: May 20th 2013 10:09a.m. Contributed by: geofferson
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Scroll through endless entries of PR infested listings, "events" and drinks deals, or CHOOSE TO READ PICK OF THE WEEK. It is a choice, but once you make that choice, you will be helpless but to agree to my every truth for I, Shanghaiist ...
Scroll through endless entries of PR infested listings, "events" and drinks deals, or CHOOSE TO READ PICK OF THE WEEK. It is a choice, but once you make that choice, you will be helpless but to agree to my every truth for I, Shanghaiist Minister of Propaganda, have officially declared war on boredom and drudgery, (active from days Monday to Thursday). [ more › ]
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To whomever is responsible for adding the background music in this video, we are endlessly in your debt. "Epic majestic cattle-truck-riding man" will forever be in our hearts. [ more › ]
To whomever is responsible for adding the background music in this video, we are endlessly in your debt. "Epic majestic cattle-truck-riding man" will forever be in our hearts. [ more › ]
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Broad Sustainable Construction (BSC), known for constructing a 30-story building in fifteen days, has just gained approval to start construction on one of their biggest projects - a 838-meter or 2,749 feet tall building called Sky City, ...
Broad Sustainable Construction (BSC), known for constructing a 30-story building in fifteen days, has just gained approval to start construction on one of their biggest projects - a 838-meter or 2,749 feet tall building called Sky City, Treehugger reports. [ more › ]
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