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While international media is abuzz over the discovery of the world’s oldest stash of marijuana, a glaringly-obvious fact was inconspicuously left in the article: the pot stash was part of the tomb of a blond-haired, blue-eyed man who lived in China some 2,700 years ago.Chinese legend is full of blond-haired, blue-eyed people who brought Buddhism to China and organized society there.

http://www.therightperspective.org/?p=382 

U.S. health officials have found trace amounts of the chemical melamine in one sample of infant formula sold in the United States, a Food and Drug Administration spokeswoman said on Tuesday.

"There's no basis for concern because we're talking about trace levels that are so low ...

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/169737-U-S-finds-t... 

According to Anti-Phishing Alliance of China, by October 30, 2008 it had suspended the domain names of more than 300 Chinese phishing websites with the help of the anti-phishing system based on the .CN domain names.

Phishing websites have been threatening the Internet's security, especially since the second half of September when the financial crisis was expanding around the world.

http://www.chinatechnews.com/2008/11/25/8088-china-s... 

You know Chinese Democracy? The just-released album by Guns N’ Roses that was titled to deliberately upset the Chinese government?

Well, you’ll never guess what it’s just done.

http://www.hecklerspray.com/china-to-guns-n-roses-he... 

Chinese hospitals will open special units to treat internet addiction after surveys revealed that over four million teenagers spend more than six hours a day online.

China is likely to become the first country in the world to officially recognise internet addiction as a clinical disease as it battles with the increasing number of people who spend almost of their time in chatrooms, blogging or playing online games.

http://www.technewsreview.com.au/article.php?article... 

China is not new to censoring the Internet, but up until now, BitTorrent sites have never been blocked. Recently however, several reports came in from China, indicating that popular BitTorrent sites such as Mininova, isoHunt and The Pirate Bay had been hijacked. The sites became inaccessible, instead redirecting to the leading Chinese search engine Baidu.chineseflagJust a week ago, reports came in that China had started to ban 10 video hosting sites, allegedly because of “regulations violations”. Other sites, including China’s largest eDonkey indexing site, VeryCD, received warnings.

http://torrentfreak.com/china-hijacks-popular-bittor... 

China's ZTE is stepping up its assault on the U.S. market. In February the maker of wireless gear introduced the C88, its first U.S. cell phone (BusinessWeek.com, 2/15/08). In August, ZTE and its U.S. carrier partner, MetroPCS (PCS), rolled out a second handset, the more capable ZTE C79.

I tested the C79 for several days and found it to be a capable, no-frills phone that may help ZTE increase its minuscule share of the U.S. market, which, according to IDC, is less than 1%. The model has been selling so well that MetroPCS has upped its orders, says Drew Wilkens, a handset director at ZTE.

http://www.businessweek.com/print/technology/content... 

Qiao Xing Mobile Communication Co., Ltd. (the "Company") (NYSE: QXM - News), one of China's leading domestic manufacturers of mobile handsets through its subsidiary, CEC Telecom Co., Ltd., today announced that it has invited Miss Zhang Ziyi, one of the best known Chinese actresses internationally, the leading actress of Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, to be the spokesperson for its luxury VEVA brand in China.

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/080909/cntu018.html?.v=5... 

With the Chinese media gushing over the success of the Olympics, the latest issue of Southern Window — a highbrow news magazine with a circulation of 500,000 — caught my eye. The cover illustration features a couple of law textbooks and a teacher with a wooden pointer giving instruction to a businessman and a government official. The coverline: "Rule of Law Starts With Limitation of Power." Sounds boring? In China, it's almost revolutionary.

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,183599... 

A handout photo shows a commemorative bank note with a face value of 10 yuan ($1.46) to mark the Beijing Olympic Games.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26361847/