eric | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 24 2007 | news, Buddhism, China, Tibet, reincarnation
In a really strange yet completely logical move, the Dalai Lama has been forbidden from reincarnating in Chinese controlled Tibet.
- eric | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 05 2007 | Lonely Planet, travel, China, Tibet
Lonely Planet writer has gone missing near the Tibetan border in China.
Quoted: The international police agency is called in to look for an Australian travel writer missing in Tibet. -
eric | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 23 2007 | china, beijing, chinese, street, interview, language barrier, language, translation
click to playFound this clip in the new Blue Dot video rollup. Nice! I'd never heard of the show "Sexy Beijing" but it's apparently a transplanted American talking about her experiences in Beijing. In this episode, she asks people on the streets about their "English names" with some pretty funny results.
- eric | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 18 2006 | china, terra cotta warriors, disguise
redotted from jonketo:
This is great. A man poses as one of the terracotta warriors while gurads search for him. And the best part is he's not going to get in any real trouble...
- eric | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 20 2006 | microsoft, search, internet, Google, Yahoo, China, human rights, government, freedom of expression, international law, law, Amnesty International
Quoted: Google, Microsoft and Yahoo stand accused of putting corporate interests above the human rights of the Chinese people. The allegations come in an analysis of the three firms' business practices in China, issued by the human rights watchdog Amnesty International.
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