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May 2004



Tibet is a free nation inside China’s boundaries. Who are you trying to kid? Propoganda for the confused

Monday, 31 May 2004 12:59 A GMT+09
While we now sit back and look stunned at the propaganda that flowed around the world during the perpetual strife that seemed to make up the preceding fifty year, or as it is now, the latter half of the twentieth century, I am still amazed by some of

American arms sales, a disturbance of the peace.

Sunday, 30 May 2004 11:59 P GMT+09
Beijing, May 25.(PTI): China today warned the United States against selling sophisticated weaponry to Taiwan saying it would be viewed as a hostile act and violate Washington's commitments to Beijing. The HinduIt is a clear trend in history that wher

Britain threatened over Dalai Lama tour

Thursday, 27 May 2004 12:59 A GMT+09
“Liverpool was at the centre of a furious diplomatic row last night after Chinese officials threatened to strip the port of its twin-city status with Shanghai in protest over the Dalai Lama's visit beginning this week.”Guardian UnlimitedIf you wa

If you think you know China, then you've never been there.

Tuesday, 25 May 2004 11:59 P GMT+09
I know that it is very easy to be critical of China, and recently I have been very critical of China. Those of you who read my blog will see that I’ve written about everything from the oppression of the Tibetan people to the kidnapping of children,
Category: Off Topic

Child smuggling. An epidemic, and a real story from China.

Thursday, 20 May 2004 11:59 P GMT+09
I know that I wrote about child smuggling a while back and that I generally take anything that I hear about "human suffering" in China very lightly, mostly because anything from the official news agency will underestimate the numbers and an

What Remains of Us – Tibet takes to the silver screen at the Cannes Films Festival

Tuesday, 18 May 2004 12:59 A GMT+09
While it can be argued that China is opening up the outside world, it can also be argued that many of the practices that we can still see in China hark back to the dark ages of Europe. China’s leaders might now be carrying mobile telephones and wat

Balsawood and mortar

Tuesday, 18 May 2004 12:59 A GMT+09
Now that my readership is up I am going to revisit a few of the classic editorials from "The Angry Chinese Blogger" that have been accepted for international publication or distribution.The number of new or refurbished stores that are under
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Floods in Jiangxi claim seven lives

Monday, 17 May 2004 12:59 A GMT+09
It can be quite amazing what you don’t get told when you live in China. I know that my Chinese might not be excellent, but I some how managed to be skipped when it came to telling people that we were on high alert for flooding.“Seven people have

May you live in Interesting Times!

Sunday, 16 May 2004 11:59 P GMT+09
Now that my readership is up I am going to revisit a few of the classic editorials from "The Angry Chinese Blogger" that have been accepted for international publication or distribution.Above is an interesting curse that I believe was Chine

March 5 “UFO” Incident, Ball lighting?

Sunday, 16 May 2004 12:59 A GMT+09
Hmm, it seems that one of my guesses as to the origins of the March 5 lights recorded by a Mexican air force surveillance aircraft wasn’t particularly far flung after all, a scientist by the name of Julio Herrera, a nuclear professional, has come u

More on the Mexico Ufos, including downloads

Saturday, 15 May 2004 11:59 P GMT+09
For all of you Ufo watchers out there I now have some more information on the March 5 Ufo incident over Mexico, including clips of FLIR (forward Looking Infra Red) footage provided by SEDENA (Secretariat of National Defense) in Mexico, for you to dow

Optimism Meter

Friday, 14 May 2004 11:59 P GMT+09
Some of you may have noticed the site motto located in the top right hand corners of this site, just above the user menu; well, it’s probably time to explain exactly what this is.The motto is the Angry Chinese Blogger Optimism Meter.
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UFOs over Mexico?

Friday, 14 May 2004 11:59 P GMT+09
Every now and again you read an interesting story from the fringes of the media that could be genuine or could be some insubstantial filler that disappears or is discredited after everybody who read it has filed at the back of the draw marked interes

Editorials Menu

Friday, 14 May 2004 12:59 A GMT+09
A Frightening StepA Rolex is still only a watchA Social ObservationBalsawood and MortarExporting our heritage, and Importing YoursInteresting TimesInternet Censorship, on the IncreaseSelf-Censorship, a Barrier to ProgressStrange Bedfellows, or Close

Taiwan and China, what price reunification?

Thursday, 13 May 2004 12:59 A GMT+09
“Beijing has considered Taiwan a breakaway province that must be returned to the fold, by force if necessary, since their split at the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949.”It is a cliché of the relationship between Taiwan and China that wheneve

Child Smuggling, a tragedy for the modern world

Monday, 10 May 2004 12:59 A GMT+09
Of the trends of the late twentieth and early twenty first century that have belied that we are supposed to be in a period of great civilisation, one of the direst is the growing endemic of people smuggling. Despite relegation of nationally organised

More problems in Hong Kong

Sunday, 9 May 2004 12:59 A GMT+09
Having reported a while ago that China had strategically “reinterpreted” the mini constitution of Hong Kong, Beijing has now decided to tout that very document in a warning to the Special Administrative Region on any plans that it had to complain

Japan is still under the US heel

Saturday, 8 May 2004 12:59 A GMT+09
http://www.newkerala.com/news-daily/news/features.php?action=fullnews&showcomments=1&id=15580New KeralaIn a clear show that Japan is still under the heel of Colonial America the two nations are set to conduct joint flights of a new anti-balli

China closes 8600 Internet Cafes

Friday, 7 May 2004 11:59 P GMT+09
China’s news agency has announced that it has closed down 8600 internet cafes in an effort to protect the nations children from harm brought by reading unsuitable websites or from overuse and misuse of the web.This might be true and it might not be

Child Smuggling

Thursday, 6 May 2004 12:59 A GMT+09
Now I honestly didn’t think that this still went on in China, but apparently it does, child kidnapping and smuggling is still a reality.The Kansas City Star - China's boys stolen http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/world/8588185.htm?1c 

Welcome to "The Angry Chinese Blogger"

Thursday, 6 May 2004 12:59 A GMT+09
Welcome to “The Angry Chinese Blogger” This is my news, politics and current affairs blog, written from China and about China.

A powerful tool for disseminating your life

Thursday, 6 May 2004 12:59 A GMT+09
As some of you will know this week we saw an international day recognising the freedom of the press and in turn the freedom of the people to have a voice, or for those who are more passive, to listen to somebody else’s voice, and while most of us t
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Havana cigar, anybody?

Wednesday, 5 May 2004 12:59 A GMT+09
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=574&ncid=721&e=1&u=/nm/20040503/wl_nm/cuba_usa_dcHmm, just when you thought that America was too occupied with slaughtering people in Iraq, they come out with another policy decision rig

Hey, somebody who matters is saying something, hurray for John Simpson

Tuesday, 4 May 2004 12:59 A GMT+09
At last some public outcry over Hong Kong from somebody who counts, and not some Conservative party politician who did less for democracy  in Hong Kong than the Chinese have.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/05/02/whong02.xml