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Living in China: grab your “Oba-Mao” T-shirts

At the hype of US President Barack Obama's first visit to China, the hottest sales item on Beijing's streets is a t-shirt featuring Obama's face replacing China' former leader Mao Zedong's face in an iconic image of the Communist Party and Red Army [...]
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Internet in China: Timeline of the Pre-Installed Internet Filter required for All New Computers

China announced recently it would have all new computers in China pre-installed with a filter software, in a bid to "protect minors" from "unhealthy information" from the Internet. All computers produced or sold in China after July 1 would be installed with such software, said the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MITT). Check a round up of news about the Green Dam internet filter (and how conflicting the information is, depending if the source is Chinese or from abroad):
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Living in China: Chinese households to get annual income over 60,000 yuan

Not a recent piece of news, but it would be interesting to see if the trend has been updated since then: a Chinese expert predicted 55 percent Chinese households will have a yearly income over 60,000 yuan (8,0407 U.S. dollars) by 2020, the Beijing Morning Post reported in Beijing [...]
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