Oddly Enough, China Daily More Accurate than Reuters

A Reuters article, “Masseuses told to padlock pants“, reports on masseuses in Indonesia, but uses a China Daily image from a police raid on prostitutes in a hotel in Jilin, China to go with the story:

The original image from the China Daily article:

And this is three weeks after Western media showed those images of the 3/14 crackdown against Tibetan protestors in Nepal while claiming they were images from Tibet.

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Tags Media, Western Media, Asia

Frozen in Shanghai

Thanks to Yee for the heads up on Frozen in Shanghai. I wondered if we’d see this in China or not, and what response, if any, it would invoke from onlookers and authorities.

Tags Frozen, Shanghai, China

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Back to NetNewsWire and Maybe Blogging More

With the news that NetNewsWire is now free I decided to download it and see if my ISP, Charter, is still crashing my cable modem through their firmware when I use a desktop feedreader. They are not, which further confirms my suspicion that they were at one point; both NetNewsWire Lite and Vienna crashed my cable modem consistently last fall.

Anyway, I had been using Google Reader, but I never found myself quite as productive with it as I am with a desktop feedreader. As a result, I read less blogs, and thus had less to blog about myself. Now that I’ve got NNW back in my dock I may be blogging a bit more again.

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Tags Feedreaders, Blogging

Jinjin in America

Jinjin, my wife, has been in the US for nearly a week now. Our cat survived the trip too and is having fun exploring her new home. She’s quite curious about items in the supermarket (Jinjin, not the cat), constantly asking me, “What’s this?” It’s very cute. I think our children are going to have an extra dose of curiosity - in a few years, when we have them!

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Tags Emigration, Immigration

Jinjin Finally Has Her Visa

I am pleased to announce that Jinjin, my wife, finally was issued an immigration visa by the United States government.

Because my own work visa in China was set to expire, I have been in the States since July 2007. We had planned on Jinjin being here at that time too, but unfortunately she was denied the visa at her interview. We have had to be very patient for the past six months while sorting out the problem.

She will be traveling here sometime in the coming weeks.

Tags America, Immigration, Visa, Chinese

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