Posts tagged China

The Atlantic

The sleepy Thai town on the busy underground railway for North Korean defectors. “They say there are too many,” says one local woman. “[The police] don’t have enough room to hold them.”

The sleepy Thai town on the busy underground railway for North Korean defectors.

“They say there are too many,” says one local woman. “[The police] don’t have enough room to hold them.”

irwinloy.com

China, Cambodia, Wikileaks and the Uighurs

When asked to choose between two dozen Uighur asylum-seekers and a Chinese government that claimed they were “criminals”, Cambodian authorities sided with China — and Western diplomats were powerless to stop them. What leaked diplomatic cables show about the controversial 2009 deportations.

@ChrisBurkeShay has the latest on Asia’s theme park arms race and an Amazon-themed tourist attraction in Hong Kong, where it appears that cultural sensitivity isn’t a major focus. In perhaps a gesture meant for competing theme parks, Allan Zeman, chairman of Ocean Park, opened the new attraction, called the Rainforest, wearing Amazon war paint along with a blue headdress and a grass skirt.

@ChrisBurkeShay has the latest on Asia’s theme park arms race and an Amazon-themed tourist attraction in Hong Kong, where it appears that cultural sensitivity isn’t a major focus.

In perhaps a gesture meant for competing theme parks, Allan Zeman, chairman of Ocean Park, opened the new attraction, called the Rainforest, wearing Amazon war paint along with a blue headdress and a grass skirt.

The Wall Street Journal

afrographique: An infographic depicting the percentage breakdowns in trade between the People’s Republic of China and the African continent. Data from Renaissance Capital.

afrographique:

An infographic depicting the percentage breakdowns in trade between the People’s Republic of China and the African continent. Data from Renaissance Capital.

Hmm… mothernaturenetwork: A zookeeper dressed in a giant panda suit carries panda cub Cao Gen at the Hetaoping Research and Conservation Center for the Giant Panda. The suits are part of preparations to release the panda into the wild. The handlers dress up as giant pandas to limit human contact with the young cub.

Hmm…

mothernaturenetwork:

A zookeeper dressed in a giant panda suit carries panda cub Cao Gen at the Hetaoping Research and Conservation Center for the Giant Panda.
 
The suits are part of preparations to release the panda into the wild. The handlers dress up as giant pandas to limit human contact with the young cub.