China

Perez covers the Chinese algae cleanup

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FAQ: 1957 Chinese torture memo

July 2, 2008 - In 2002, when the Guantanamo Bay detention camp opened, the U.S. was in need of some guidance on just how to torture interrogate the throngs of suspected terrorists. Rather than reading up on current interrogation techniques...

From The Room: Why Stuff Happens

June 27, 2008 - I'm very flattered by the invitation to contribute to these pages, and a little trepidatious, since I am not a particularly intelligent person. I lacked the intellect, for example, to understand that eminent thinker and philosopher Sharon Stone when...

America, love it or leave it for someplace better (like Canada, Denmark, Sweden, Ireland, the Netherlands and, on a good day, Britain)

May 6, 2008 - An article in Newsweek speculates that the rest of the world is sick of us. Says author Fareed Zakaria, "The world has shifted from anti-Americanism to post-Americanism." Zakaria's (truncated) list of the world's gains, and our losses, is as follows: The world's tallest building is...

Dickipedia: China

May 5, 2008 - China is a dick country in East Asia, the third largest in dick area, and first in dick population. More...

HOAX! China hosting the Summer Olympics

April 1, 2008 - Ha ha, IOC. You got us. The most elaborate April Fool's prank ever was launched on July 13, 2001, when the International Olympic Committee announced that...

From The Room: Dalai Lama Out of a Job? Craigslist to the Rescue

March 18, 2008 - In the wake of the recent turmoil between Tibetan protesters and Chinese authorities, the Dalai Lama (or Tenzin Gyatso to his friends), says that...

If They IM'd: Björk and China

March 10, 2008 - Eccentric singer/music producer/swan-wearer Björk has been banned from China. After the Grammy-nominated Icelandic sin...

From The Room: No China Left Behind

March 2, 2008 - Worried about a stagnant, aging population, China is considering revising its long standing, one-child per family policy. However, with national resources of food, land, and water already strained, creative alternatives must be put into effect. Herein lies a top secret list of potential changes to t...

From The Feed: That Ren Wei needs to chill out

February 7, 2008 - The translator for this 700 Club report on the Beijing Olympics sounds like he needs a hug...

Perez Hilton covers the winter storms in China

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From The Feed: Too bad white people never finished civilizing their colored counterparts

January 29, 2008 - "World News Now" anchor Jeremy Hubbard teases an upcoming segment on China...

From The Room: China: The Real Beneficiary of the Bush Stimulus Package

January 28, 2008 - The current economic stimulus package should be great for the economy...of China. The $150 billion or so to be dispersed to Americans is more than the government has to spend. Luckily, our good friends in China should come through, we already borrow a crap ton of money from them...

From The Room: Chinese Pornography

January 26, 2008 - China, which Reuters conveniently lists as "slightly smaller than Canada," in order to paint a stirring and vivid picture of the nation for American readers, is in an uproar. Why, you ask? Perhaps it's further human rights abuses, or the continuing repression of freedom of speech? No, it's...

China hides its porn like a horny 15-year-old

January 25, 2008 - China's police have cracked down on a live, Taiwan-based porn site, one of the most widely-visited of over 44,000 Chinese Web sites busted in a government clean-up last year. Xinhua news agency says China's c...