Apologies for those of you who’ve been bumped off the RSS feed or accessing strange 404 errors, but we’re in the middle of transitioning off of the Typepad platform (not very accessible in China) onto our own servers.

I’m currently hosting the blog myself (it currently forwards to virtualchina.hongkonggong.com), but I’m hoping to throw it on an IFTF…

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“We are very pleased to announce that 13th FIRA Roboworld Cup China 2008 will take place in Qingdao from 22-25 July, 2008. We would like to invite you to take part in the FIRA Cup and Congress.

13th FIRA RoboWorld Cup China 2008
Date: 22-25 July 2008
Venue: Shinan Software Park, Qingdao China”

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Remember the “Numa Numa” song, originally performed by the Moldovan band O-Zone (actual title of song = Dragostea din tei)?

It’s been a while since the song, the MTV and its spoofs were circulated around the internet, but I found a witty animated version today on Tudou that transliterated the Romanian words into…

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鲍昆 Bao Kun is (according to billsdue) a renowned photographer in China, who joined the Chinese Photography Association in 1983 and also taught at the University of Science & Technology Beijing.

His photoblog has some great work, including a post (full of photos) about New Cities New Citizens:

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Fun finding of the day — a recipe-diagram for cooking chicken with beer! (Rough translations given in maroon.)

Go to original post (currently down) or photo on Yupoo.

Via Global Voices Online’s Memedia translation (an old issue). Thank you tian for fixing my translation.

The title says it all. It’s a bit slow for my taste and doesn’t give me the traditional variants that I want, but check it out — it’s pretty handy and may be right for you.

Link: Firefox add-on link
Link: Author’s homepage

Happy Chinese New Year!

P.S. I really like this set of characters from 张小盒 (Boxy Zhang), but…

They do resemble these guys from Japan alot…

From the Environmental News Network:

“…the world’s largest cow-dung methane power plant started operation on January 21 in China’s Inner Mongolia region. With an investment of 45 million RMB (roughly $US5.7 million) from the country’s largest milk producer, Mengniu Dairy, the plant is able to supply 10 million kilowatt-hours of electricity to the national power
grid.”

The article…

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Apple has disclosed that their first store in China will be in Beijing, scheduled to open in time for the 2008 Olympics.

It will be located on the to-be-renovated Qianmen Street, which, according to TUAW, will be “the city’s second pedestrian-only shopping street and it’s reported
that Apple will be forgoing it’s well-established storefront in favor
of a…

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From a post on billdsue:
“According to this article, UUpark intends to make Leon the next Hello Kitty, and Sequoia and SIG invested $1.5M into the company in late 2006.”

And so I went to check out some clips (not bad, not great) and then found some comic diaries, like …

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