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December 2004
Omisoka: Japan, New Years Eve
Friday, 31 December 2004 9:00 A GMT+09
Omisoka 大晦日, or New Years Eve, is a very symbolic day in Japan and is associated with cleansing the mind and the home, and making preparation for the coming year. It used to be celebrated using the Asian lunar calandar, but 大晦日 is now cel
Have you ever wondered where spam comes from?
Thursday, 30 December 2004 1:25 P GMT+09
Statistics released this month by Sophos, one of the world’s leading anti-virus and computer security companies, show that China has risen to become one of the worlds largest source of commercial spam, ranking number three behind the US and South K
Category: News and Politics News and Perspectives
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Breaking News: Editorial blunder at Xinhua lists Chinese Taiwan as sovereign country
Wednesday, 29 December 2004 3:35 P GMT+09
Due to an editorial oversight, Xinhua online, the internet branch of the state controlled media group, has published an article through its English language website that lists Mainland China and Chinese Taiwan as being separate countries. A serious e
School girls’ panties for sale
Wednesday, 29 December 2004 1:17 P GMT+09
There must be something about the festive season that brings out the weirdness in people. Maybe it is a full moon or maybe it’s just the stress of hunting for the perfect gift for a loved one, but hits for soiled school girls underpants are now at
Category: Off Topic News and Perspectives
Civil unrest: South China village erupts after security forces slaying
Tuesday, 28 December 2004 5:17 P GMT+09
Civil unrest is reported to have erupted into a large scale protest over the weekend as villagers in south China marched against police and government officials after the slaying of a local resident by Chinese security forces.It is thought that aroun
Boxing Day: various, also Feast of Saint Stephen
Sunday, 26 December 2004 9:00 A GMT+09
Today is Boxing Day, also Feast of St. StephenBritain and former colonies (Various), excluding America
Christmas Day: Various
Saturday, 25 December 2004 9:00 A GMT+09
Today is Christmas DayAmerica, Europe (Various), Britain and former colonies (Various), Japan (Nominal).
Joy to the world and peace to all men upon this day Christmas day
Saturday, 25 December 2004 12:00 A GMT+09
On this Christmas day may the people of the world, be they Christian or not, join together in the spirit, if not the name, of Christmas to cast out the ills of the world so that man may be at peace with man and we may stand together before the dawn a
Category: Off Topic News and Perspectives
Down The Rabbit Hole: Saving the Day, Chinese Style
Friday, 24 December 2004 6:39 P GMT+09
Down The Rabbit Hole:
Saving the Day, Chinese Style
Superheroes have long been a cultural epitaph by
which you can gauge a coun
Buy “used Japanese school girl panties” here, at least according to MSN
Friday, 24 December 2004 6:19 P GMT+09
Hurray, Angry Chinese Blogger has begun receiving hits from men (we presume) seeking to buy soiled Japanese school girls' panties. Presumably they were lured in by the first 7 words kindly displayed by MSN “many sets of used panties are available
Category: News and Politics Off Topic
CAAC say Bombardier CRJ200 in the clear, but no explanation given for November 21 air crash
Friday, 24 December 2004 5:37 P GMT+09
Chinese Aviation authorities have announced that scheduled flights using the Bombardier CRJ200 aircraft are to resume after an unscheduled one month grounding called after China’s worst aviation disaster since 2002.
Category: News and Politics News and Perspectives
Poverty: Another forbidden topic
Thursday, 23 December 2004 8:58 A GMT+09
The Chinese Ministry of Propaganda, the official designation of the Chinese government bureau which controlling much of the flow of information that is permitted to be released in China, has added the ‘Increasing gap between rich and poor in China
Emperor's Brithday: Japan
Wednesday, 22 December 2004 6:33 P GMT+09
Today is the birthday of Emperor 明仁 Akihito, the 125th Emperor of Japan
Emperor Akihito was born on December 23 1933, becoming Emperor on November 12 1990 after the death of his father the previous year.
His reign is noted by his efforts to
"They fell off the back of a lorry, all of them, honest": Counterfeiting causes 50,000 Chinese headaches a day for Sony
Wednesday, 22 December 2004 2:24 P GMT+09
Officials working for the Sony Corporation have announced the discoverer of a massive Chinese counterfeiting network set up to produce fake Playstations and components ranging from games controllers and memory cards to illegal ‘mod’ chips which a
If you like what you see ....
Tuesday, 21 December 2004 2:08 P GMT+09
If you enjoy reading Angry Chinese Blogger, here is your
chance to show it.Vote for Angry Chinese Blogger in the “Best Mainland Blog” category in the 2004 blogging awards. http://pub2.bravenet.com/vote/vote.php?usernum=131619791&cpv=2
Winter Solstice: China
Tuesday, 21 December 2004 9:00 A GMT+09
Winter SolsticeIn China, the winter solstice marks the beginning of winter in China and is celebrated on the 22 of December during 2004 and is considered to be an important date in Chinese tradition.It is called 冬至 and its name in Chinese literal
Category: Off Topic
The Rabbit Hole: Potty Talk, Chinese Rest Rooms
Monday, 20 December 2004 9:53 A GMT+09
Down The Rabbit Hole: Potty
talk, Chinese Rest rooms
After many a tasteful mussing, it
is time to descend into an all together
Chinese counterfeits bear toxic payload
Sunday, 19 December 2004 4:18 P GMT+09
While the health risks of smoking have long been publicized in the UK, a more sinister threat to the health of the countries smokers and passive smokers has now been reported by the British Government, counterfeit cigarettes, many of which can contai
The feeling is ….. mildly mutual … but why?
Sunday, 19 December 2004 2:19 P GMT+09
Warning, if the author has upset you in the past, they are about to do it again.In a sign of the strained relationships between China and Japan, recent opinion polls conducted on both sides of the divide have shown that the level of mutual distrust b
Decimation of Political Face: Beijing told to ‘take a hike’ over Lee Tung Hui visit
Saturday, 18 December 2004 2:53 P GMT+09
Within a matter of days of the last raising of tensions between China and Japan, tempers have once again flared over the issuing of a tourist visa to Lee Tung hui, the former President of Chinese Taiwan, to allow him entry into Japan for a personal v
Down The Rabbit Hole: Koizumi Junichiro
Saturday, 18 December 2004 1:04 P GMT+09
Down The Rabbit Hole:
Koizumi Junichiro
Koizumi Junichiro
Everybody in China hates Koizumi Junichiro, though most
Beijing sabotages OECD workers’ right forum, puts profit above people
Friday, 17 December 2004 4:18 P GMT+09
Despite prior consultation and approval from the Chinese government, Beijing has moved to sabotage a workers’ rights forum that was to be held in Beijing under the umbrella of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which has rep
2004 Web Log Awards: Number 8
Friday, 17 December 2004 12:02 P GMT+09
Angry Chinese Blogger officially ranks number 8 in the 2004 Web Log awards in the category of Best Asia Blog, rising from un-nominated in 2003.The top three ranks were dominated by three heavy weights. Nobody else even came close.
Category: Off Topic News and Perspectives
Controlling public opinion: What Beijing wants the people to hear
Thursday, 16 December 2004 8:41 A GMT+09
One of the common accusation made against the media in China, is that it is very selective about the news that it prints, and that it conceals elements of stories that disagree with the line issued by Beijing on specific issues or that may contradict
Category: News and Politics News and Perspectives
Down the Rabbit Hole: Sound
Wednesday, 15 December 2004 3:19 P GMT+09
Down The Rabbit Hole:
Sound
Sound Transmission
It is accepted that sound will travel faster through a
dense