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Study Shows 1 in 10 Meals in China is Cooked with Illegal Cooking Oil
My wife and I used to have our dinners in restaurants because we simple do not have the time to come home after work and cook for ourselves. Lucky, we stopped doing that after our parents find out our dinner habits and strongly suggested to us that we should try to cook dinner at [...]
Contaminated Milk Resold in China
Most thought when the dairy products company Sanlu bankrupted and the chief culprits was sentenced to death in the wake of the 2008 melamine scandals, it was safe to trust the domestic dairy producers and that melamine would be no more.
Indeed, despite the initial fears and boycotts that almost ruined dairies, consumers have returned and [...]
My promise to China (if China promise to unblock Google)
I use Google to check my personal email and company email, I use it to share word documents and spreadsheets, I use it for search and read up on my favorite blogs. However, today, everything came to a grinding halt when China blocked (and still blocking) Google and its applications.
I don’t care why China is [...]
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Fake Gmail from China, Gmail China | Gmail 中国
Gmail or Google Mail is a mail service that I use everyday. So when I heard about Gmail China (Gmail 中国) I thought it’s Google’s email service tailored to the Chinese market. Boy was I wrong.
Gmail China is operated by “爱思美（北京）信息科技有限公司”, an Internet service provider that offer services such as domain name registration and management, [...]
Behind the May 1st Holiday
Tomorrow is the May 1st Holiday (五一劳动节). In China, May 1 used to mark the start of one of the country’s three “Golden Weeks”. However, since last year’s holiday reforms, May 1 labor day went from “Golden Weeks” to “Golden Weekends”.
I used to think May 1 is a socialist holiday (whatever that means) [...]