Blind activist Chen Guangcheng boards a plane for the USA. Here’s video. He’s with his wife and kids. No more torture, unless they go down the line to his other relatives. He’ll be at NYU Law on a fellowship. Was the video exciting? It didn’t do much for us.
It’s simple, a guy buys fries and pours some water to a homeless woman in China. He becomes a viral hit. Great name, nice deed, and it’s just a shred of happy news. (CNN – American French Fry Brother)
Dorky and fun, the Chen Guangcheng look is now viral. There’s plenty of funny version of Chen quick viral images including Shawshank and the Colonel Sanders look. It’s not that exciting, but it’s odd that a man from obscurity just a month ago is now a sensation. (VOA - Chen Guangchen)
One of the more famous actors in China isn’t someone you’ve seen in the US or Europe. It’s Cao Cao or Jonathan Kos-Read who’s played in 100 movies playing the non-Chinese person. He’s fluent and began his career there in 1997. Now with the new relationships with the rest of the world, his characters are becoming more dynamic. He’s seldom the lead actor, but it could happen, unless Hollywood kills his career by drowning China with the likes of a dubbed Christian Bale… (China Daily – Cao Cao)
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As dumb as can be. Ferrari, a symbol of opulence, penis size or lack there of, ego and even waste, is behind a publicity stunt of driving on the Great Wall. How they got to even do this, is a travesty, but then doing donuts and leaving skid marks that aren’t all removable, is a bit time failure and a lack of respect. Why doesn’t this happen in Italy? Colosseum? Parthenon? (CNN – Ferrari Fail)
The activist, Chen Guangcheng ran blindly and escaped after playing possum with his guards. He played ill and layed in bed for two months before staging an escape and was only discovered missing after three days! Here’s the story and it’s surely going to be a film. (Google – Chen Guangcheng)
The blind dissident attorney got some notoriety during an attempted visit by Christian Bale. When we posted the visit during Bale’s Chinese film promotion, people criticized our own critique of Christian Bale. Yes, was it a promo for his film? Perhaps. Has he mentioned the dissident since? No. Yet, Chinese Dissident Chen Guangcheng is now free. He escaped by the hands of helpers however his family is now under attack as retaliation. What will he do now and where will he go? The video is voiced over in English. (CNN – Chen Guangcheng)
Here’s a BBC report below
The problem of coffee shops everywhere. Lingering customers who aren’t spending. It’s happening in China. Imagine, holding a coffee cup with the Starbucks logo is a status symbol. It’s America’s huge coffee chain. In China, it’s expensive and what’s the next best thing if you can’t afford a cup? Hanging out in Starbucks. Meetings happen and people bring their own food, yet it’s a roaring start for a company that’s seeking to build a brand. (Reuters – Starbucks)
Where does one go if you’re Japanese, out of a job in manufacturing but an expert? Yes, China. That’s where a lot of technical experts can go find a second career to hopefully work and teach the great skills that some Japanese possess. Of course that comes with issues. There are 2800 Japanese in manufacturing town of Dongguan alone.
“”From Japan’s perspective, emerging countries are getting a free ride of the benefits we nurtured. So yes, it is a problem,” said Yasushi Ishizuka, director of the intellectual property policy office at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.”
Yet, jobs are jobs, people will follow the money to survive. Some say that this manufacturing knowledge aren’t crucial secrets. It’s the world today and that’s how it is. (Reuters – Manufacturing China)
We mentioned it once a while ago in June 2011 and now it looks to be banned. Babies born in Hong Kong can stay in Hong Kong which then includes the parents. Mainland Chinese have been flocking to Hong Kong to give birth. The tension between Hong Kong and Mainland continues. (LATimes – Anchor)
Most of you won’t have heard of any of the players involved. This is a story about a leader, Bo Xilai of Chongqing, one of the largest cities in the world. It’s in China. His wife allegedly was involved in killing a British businessman, Neil Heywood. The police chief, a colleague of Bo, decided to leave friendship aside and work on the case. The story is unfolding as we speak. Some of the players like Bo haven’t been seen in public in a month. The police chief nearly sought asylum in the US and is now in trouble. That’s a photo of Bo below. Seen him? (Reuters – Murder)
Invest seven digits in the US and you’ll get that VISA.
Known as the EB-5, the visa requires applicants to invest $500,000 in projects in economically struggling regions or $1 million in a commercial venture in other locations. The investments must create or preserve 10 jobs for two years. If successful, the applicants and their families – spouses and children younger than 21 – are awarded permanent residency. (Bellingham Herald – Wealthy Chinese EB 5)
Yes, it’s now a co-production with someone in China. Hollywood is just reaching so hard to China, it’s getting strange. China is now the second largest film nation… so, yes, it’s obvious that chasing the money is what’s going on. (Reuters – China)
Terracotta Warriors to arrive in NYC. It sounds like a rap group or dance crew, doesn’t it? 10 warriors will make it from the millions who are probably still buried. They’re 600 pounds each. Do they fly first class? They’ll be at the Discovery Times Square. You’d like they’d make it to the Museum of Natural History, but this location sounds just as great. Congrats on bringing them to the US. (Marketwatch – Terracotta)
This was in the new late last week and it smelled like a hoax, but who knows. Plenty of people, a lot of organs, and the iPad. There’s a lot of sides to this and supposedly 5 are charged with a crime. (Xinhua – Kidney)
Fang Lizhi passes away in the US. He was outspoken against the Chinese Government during the 1989 Tianamen Era. A university professor in China, he hid in the US Embassy for months, and then lived in exile in Arizona since. (Washington Post – Fang Lizhi)
While he’s being watched by the government for making art and statements contrary to them, he set up webcams and broadcasted his life, to be as transparent as possible, but that got shut down. He can’t win, especially when he’s constantly mocking his government’s authority and making art out of it. As innocent as it all sounds, he knows what’s up. (VOA News – Ai Weiwei)
Yes, the article says the average drinker in China is 3 cups a year. Plenty of space for growth, but imagine in the countryside in a country that’s gigantic, have they even seen coffee or heart of it? Yet there’s 500 shops in China and growing. Is it? Does Starbucks cater to the 1% or less in China with enough money to pay for a drink that’s considered luxurious? Yes and that’s what they’re doing since that’s the only people who’ll pay for expensive and mediocre coffee. (WSJ – China)
What’s for breakfast? How about eggs cooked in piss? In Dongyang, China, that’s what’s special. Virgin boys under the age of 10 pee into buckets and those get used to cook the eggs. Yes, the eggs crack after cooking and then more piss is added. Want to prevent head stroke? Then eat these eggs. It takes a day to make them and it sounds like something that can be made anywhere.
The partnership is complete… in China. This looks like what a GR store should look like… in China. (Cult of Android – Apple)
