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Sex, money and the environment

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Today's news: sex, fraud and endangered animals
A roundup of today's print media

Sex Management
The cover story of the last issue of New Weekly surveys the state of sex in China. The feature includes information about sex-related problems, and interviews with some young people and the famous sexologist, Li Yinhe(李银河). There are also some supplementary articles about topics like sex and the World Cup, sex and disease, and condom advertisements in China.

7.1 billion social security funds
Today's Beijing News reports that an audit published Thursday found that more than 7 billion yuan (about 900 million U.S. dollars) of China's two trillion yuan social security funds had been misappropriated. According to the National Audit Office, the funds were siphoned off for "overseas investment, commercial loans to companies, construction of government buildings and other purposes."

Rare animals' life in Yangzi River
This week's cover of San Lian Life Week focuses on how to prevent these animals from dying out, and the efforts the government has made. Environmental issues are cropping up in the media more and more frequently.

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The Eurasian Face : Blacksmith Books, a publishing house in Hong Kong, is behind The Eurasian Face, a collection of photographs by Kirsteen Zimmern. Below is an excerpt from the series:
Big in China: An adapted excerpt from Big In China: My Unlikely Adventures Raising A Family, Playing The Blues and Becoming A Star in China, just published this month. Author Alan Paul tells the story of arriving in Beijing as a trailing spouse, starting a blues band, raising kids and trying to make sense of China.
Pallavi Aiyar's Chinese Whiskers: Pallavi Aiyar's first novel, Chinese Whiskers, a modern fable set in contemporary Beijing, will be published in January 2011. Aiyar currently lives in Brussels where she writes about Europe for the Business Standard. Below she gives permissions for an excerpt.
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+ Korean history doesn't fly on Chinese TV screens (2007.09): SARFT puts the kibbosh on Korean historical dramas.
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+ David Moser on Mao impersonators (2004.10): I first became aware of this phenomenon in 1992 when I turned on a Beijing TV variety show and was jolted by the sight of "Mao Zedong" and "Zhou Enlai" playing a game of ping pong. They both gave short, rousing speeches, and then were reverently interviewed by the emcee, who thanked them profusely for taking time off from their governmental duties to appear on the show.
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