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Photos from the Good Luck GamesPosted by Joel Martinsen, May 27, 2008 4:00 PM
Danwei Picks is a daily digest of the "From the Web" links found on the Danwei homepage. A feed for the links as they are posted throughout the day is available at Feedsky (in China) or Feedburner (outside China). Good Luck Games and Bird's Nest: photos: This links to a set of photos by Andrew Lih of the Bird's Nest during the Good Luck Games, held last weekend as a trial of some Olympic facilities. See also TooManyTribbles's photos of various Olympic venues.
Now, one might reasonably ask: why does China need machines to collect bottles and can when there are tens of millions of hard-working scrap peddlers who'll do the work for less than the cost of the new machine? Well, according to Shanghai's city fathers, as reported in the Shanghai Daily, the idea is to put the scrap peddlers out of business because, quoting Shanghai Daily, "they have a negative impact on the city's image."
The chairman of Taiwan's Nationalist Party left Monday for Beijing, the latest in a series of moves by officials on both sides of the Taiwan Straits to forge closer relations.
Zhang Qianfan: making China's schools safer means building local democratic mechanisms
I'm back in Beijing with a bit of time to think back on the earthquake and the way I covered it.
A giant panda which went missing from a major panda base in southwest China's Sichuan Province after the May 12 earthquake was spotted alive about 5:20 p.m. on Sunday by a group of road workers.
The China Red Cross has come again under scrutiny of China's internet users. Initially it was accused for lack of transparency, because it did not want to explain what was happening with the funds it received for the victims of the Sichuan earthquake. See also Speak4China: Chinese netizens continue to monitor earthquake corruption and Red Cross in the Crosshairs.
China is usually short of genuinely free blood donations, creating a market for illegal blood selling. But Tiger Temple reports that on Sunday the blood collecting buses in Beijing had temporarily stopped accepting donations because so much has been given since the earthquake. Commenters report the same in other cities around the country.
As of late Sunday evening, at least one had died and 359 injured after a 6.4-magnitude aftershock hit Sichuan's Qingchuan county that afternoon, according to Chinese state media.
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