Author: Jason Li

Jason Li is an independent designer, artist and educator. Once upon a time, he studied engineering and ran a news site about fan translations of video games.
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Social Travel

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Major portals often feature a section on travel (旅游), so it is only a matter of time before some Chinese guy combined travel with the Flickr/Douban social software interface.

PostShow directs us to the latest one, tuniu (途牛) – share your photos, stories and advice about your latest journeys!

 

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Super Girls @ QingMing?

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From EastSouthWestNorth:

“It was duly noted that the Civil Administrative Department in China will investigate and penalize anyone who offers to burn paper figures that represent items such as villas, sedans, mistresses, Viagra, condoms, 3P girls and Super Girls for their ancestors during the traditional Qingming festival.”

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Online Bribery Database

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From Pacific Epoch:

“Beijing’s Tongzhou District recently established an internal database of local bribery records, Beijing Star Daily reports. The system catalogues all criminal records of bribery in the construction, finance, pharmacy, education and governmental procurement sectors since 1997. Individuals and enterprises can apply for access to the database, said the report.”

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Electric Power Engineers Unite

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ElectricPower.cn (电力世界网) is a community website about electric power – in the sense that it features commercial products from different vendors (product specifications, prices, websites), a wiki about electric power, and reviews about components.

In short, a goldmine for electric power engineers who are not networked to a greater company / pool of resources yet. (To my knowledge,…

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