All Posts For 2009 June

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Real Madrid Pays £80m For Ronaldo, Chinese Fan Reactions

There are many football fans in China. There are many football fans in most countries, except America (where football is called soccer). One topic that many many Chinese netizens are discussing right now is Real Madrid buying Cristiano Ronaldo from Manchester United for 80 million British pounds (~900... 

Watch Transformers 2 In Shanghai With chinaSMACK!

Hi everyone, Are you in Shanghai? Would you like to join together and watch Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen? The movie will be released in China on 24 June, Wednesday. I think it will be a very exciting movie! If you are interested, please leave a comment and vote for which days you are able to... 

Chinese Netizen Reactions To “Green Dam Youth Escort”

“Green Dam Youth Escort” (绿坝·花季护航) is a new software program that China’s government requires to be installed on all new computers sold after 2009 July 1. This program allows parents, people, and the government block internet content on each computer. Of course, they say... 

Hui Minority Beats Lanzhou Chengguan Onto Knees Crying

Chengguan aka: the City Urban Administrative and Law Enforcement Bureau, or everybody’s favorite enforcer of law and defender of harmony, got a taste of their own medicine from the vengeful hands of the people in a Hui Muslim dominated community. From Tianya: This weekend, due to the recent... 

Pretty TV Reporter Attacked By Shandong Village Official

From NetEase: You may have seen the news reports that I made about the chopping of trees in Niujia Village, Lihe town, Dezhou/Linyi city during which I was shoved around by the village director. Yesterday, the village director and other local government officials came to Qilu TV Station to apologize. ... 

Artists & Designers, chinaSMACK Needs A New T-Shirt!

Hi chinaSMACK artists and designers, chinaSMACK will become 1-year-old one month from today on July 9, 2009. I hope to make many new announcements during this time. However, one way I want to celebrate this anniversary will be organizing a fun chinaSMACK reader design contest. I think there are many... 

Chengdu Bus #8 False Alarm Amuses Netizens

A few days ago, a terrible fire on a bus in Chengdu, China killed many trapped passengers who could not break the glass windows to escape. The safety-hammer for breaking glass windows on the bus was missing/stolen.From Tianya and Mop:Today in Chengdu on a #8 route bus, someone screamed “Smoke!”... 

chinaSMACK & Fauna In Talk Magazine Cover Story

Sam Gaskin interviewed me for his cover story, “Blogging, A Dead Horse? How Our Favorite Bloggers Do Much More Than the Name Implies”, in the June 2009 issue of Talk Magazine. This is a comment by Roland Soong (from EastSouthWestNorth) in the article: Translation sites are... 

Fauna Given Free IBM Thinkpad T40 Notebook Computer!

A few weeks ago, I told everyone that my old computer is dying and I ask for recommendations on a new computer to buy. Many great chinaSMACK readers provided me with a lot of good suggestions and advice. One reader, Lawrence, email me and told me that he wants to give me a IBM Thinkpad T40 notebook... 

GM Hummer Brand Purchased By Chinese Company

[From: China Car Times] Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Company in China has paid $100 million to American automobile company General Motors to buy the Hummer brand. The workers and factories will remain in USA. Here are some Chinese netizen reactions to this news.

Chengdu Bus #9 Fire, Pictures & Videos

Two days ago, there was a fire on the #9 bus in Chengdu. There were many people who died because they could not get out. Some of the pictures and videos below are graphic.EastSouthWestNorth has a lot of information already here, here, and here. A video of people breaking the glass windows on the bus... 

Gaokao University Entrance Exam Stress Relief In China

From NetEase:It is almost time for the “gaokao” [university entrance exam] and yesterday morning and the third years [final year of high school in China] at our school had a pledge ceremony. Afterward, the third year students began to throw their exam papers, their books. At first people... 

Plastic Surgery Gate: “Little Cecilia Cheung” Gong Mi

From Sina:“Pirated Cecilia Cheung” Gong Mi from the Zhengshou area of this year’s “Happy Girls” competition [the new "Super Girls" competition, which is like a Chinese "American Idol" show] has in a few short days became a famous person, with her pictures on BBS forums... 

Yangxian County In Shaanxi China Kills Every Single Dog

From Mop:2009 May 31, an indiscriminate massacre was carried out throughout the entire 3206 square kilometer county of Yangxian in Shaanxi province — the target of the massacre were dogs! No matter whether it has a license, whether it was vaccinated, whether it was leashed, whether it was owned,... 

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