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Danwei Picks: A black-ops mission to deliver milkPosted by Joel Martinsen on Tuesday, March 4, 2008 at 7:09 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). Hack into Freedom City: A blogger infiltrates the residential complex where Zeng Jinyan is under house arrest to deliver milk powder for her baby. John Kennedy translates the gripping tale of "A Professionally Executed Milk Powder Delivery".
Along with actress Gong Li and director Zhang Yimou, Liu is a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference or CPPCC, the government body often compared to the House of Lords. Liu is missing this year's CPPCC meetings because of an athletic meet in Spain, and some people are displeased.
Concerns about Chinese restrictions on foreign financial news providers escalated into a trade dispute yesterday when the European Union and the United States filed a joint formal complaint at the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
Let’s say you’re opening a subway station smack dab in the middle of the CBD, within the shadow of the iconic CCTV Tower and the soon-to-be-tallest building in Beijing. Next door is the well-known Kerry Centre and the nearest intersection is Guanghua Road and the Third Ring Road. |
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Comments on Danwei Picks: A black-ops mission to deliver milk
i, for one, miss Rob Gifford's excessively tone-inflected pronunciation of chinese person and place names.
Anthony Kuhn tries--oh my! how he tries--but he's far too smooth.
Kudos to the milk powder delivery guy! How impressive.