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T-U-P · 06-28-2009

the water looks rather nasty to be swimming in.

bd popeye · 06-29-2009

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WIMBLEDON, ENGLAND - JUNE 29: Venus Williams of USA and Serena Williams of USA shake hands with opponents Zi Yan of China and Jie Zheng of China after the women's doubles third round match against on Day Seven of the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on June 29, 2009 in London, England.

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Michael Jackson fan, Nikki Yen, 23, from Xi'an, China, pays tribute near his Star on the Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California, on June 29, 2009.

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Hong Kong Monetary Authority Chief Executive Joseph Yam (R) shakes hands with China's Central Bank Governor Zhou Xiaochuan during the signing of a memorandum in Hong Kong June 29, 2009. Hong Kong on Monday said it hopes a scheme to allow bilateral trade with mainland China to be settled using the Chinese currency can start in July.

Where's the ladies???

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Customers use computers at an internet cafe in Taiyuan, Shanxi province June 29, 2009. China's latest Internet controls have been assailed by rights advocates and Washington, and yet the real challenge to it's latest offensive may come in the nation's own computer market. The Chinese government has ordered from Wednesday personal computers must leave manufacturers with the "Green Dam" filter software intended to block smut and, critics claim, free speech.

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Believers pray outside a temple hall, guarded by paramilitary police, where two pearl-like crystals that are believed to be from the cremation ashes of the Buddha Sakyamuni are on display, at Yunju Temple on the outskirts of Beijing, China, Monday, June 29, 2009. Buddhism, which has roots going back 2,000 years and endured alternating periods of flowering and official persecution, has undergone a resurgence since the end of orthodox Marxism in the late 1970s in China.

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A woman walks past workers as they lay new paving stones on a sidewalk in Beijing, China, Monday, June 29, 2009. The city is being spruced up in preparation for celebrations of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Peoples republic of China, on October 1.

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A Chinese man carries his daughter on his back as he walks past a man selling photographs in front of the giant portrait of Chairman Mao Zedong on Tiananmen Square in Beijing June 29, 2009.

bd popeye · 06-29-2009

Three killed in passenger train collision in central China

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Rescuers work at the site of a train collision at the railway station in Chenzhou in south China's Hunan province Monday June 29, 2009.

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CHANGSHA, June 29 (Xinhua) -- Two passenger trains collided in central China early Monday, leaving at least three people dead and 60 injured. The accident took place at 2:34 am at Chenzhou railway station in Hunan Province, said an official from Guangzhou Railway Group, which operates station and the trains involved in the crash. Train K9017 from provincial capital Changsha to Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, and another train K9063 from Tongren, Guizhou Province, to Shenzhen collided, driving several carriages off the tracks. The K9017 engine and the first five carriages as well as the K9036 engine and the first two carriages were derailed, the official said. One of the trains crashed into two nearby houses, causing them to collapse. The fourth carriage of the K9017 was the most seriously damaged, rescuers said. The electricity supply was also cut, rescuers said giving no information about when it would be resumed. Services in one direction of the line resumed at 10 a.m. while the other side was still blocked, said the official. Thousands of passengers had been stranded in the Chenzhou Railway Station. More than 50 buses had been sent to transport them to their destinations. As of midday, almost 1,000 passengers had been transported by 26 buses to Guangdong Province, the official said. All the injured had been taken to nearby hospitals. Railways Minister Liu Zhijun has gone to Chenzhou, 300 kilometers from Changsha, capital of Hunan, to oversee the rescue work. The ministry and the provincial government are investigating the cause of the accident.

Obcession · 06-29-2009

popeye, internet cafes in China are mostly used for gaming, like switchbox here. I'm guessing it's because not a lot of ladies are into computer games.

bd popeye · 06-29-2009

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popeye, internet cafes in China are mostly used for gaming, like switchbox here. I'm guessing it's because not a lot of ladies are into computer games.

Thanks for that answer and thanks for viewing the thread.

I hope all of you gents that check this thread daily enjoy it!

A.Man · 06-30-2009

Brothers, I am in China now. I will make posts when I am back.

bd popeye · 06-30-2009

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Chinese high hurdler Liu Xiang runs over a hurdle at a training base in Shanghai, China Tuesday, June 30, 2009. Liu's return to competition is on hold because of lingering problems with the athlete's injured foot, his coach said Tuesday. (AP Photo)

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Dogs are groomed at pet salon in Shanghai June 30, 2009. A new regulation on dog keeping, which has triggered a controversy by restricting each household to raise only one dog, will take effect in Guangzhou, capital of south China's Guangdong Province on Wednesday, according to Xinhua News Agency.

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A woman uses a laptop at a computer store in Beijing, China, Tuesday, June 30, 2009. A California company that says its software was illegally used in Beijing's new Internet filter threatened possible legal action as PC makers faced a Wednesday deadline to supply the system with computers. U.S. trade officials and industry and free-speech groups have also appealed to Beijing to revoke its order, which requires suppliers to pre-install the Green Dam filtering software or include it on a disk with each PC sold from July 1.

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A Chinese worker adjusts the price of petrol at a filling station in Yichang, Hubei province, on June 30, 2009. China announced its second gasoline and diesel price hike in a month on June 30, raising fuel prices in Beijing to their highest level ever.

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Iraq's Oil Minister Hussein al-Shahristani (L) talks with Chinese Ambassador to Iraq Chang Yi while attending a tender in Baghdad June 30, 2009. Iraq auctioned contracts to run eight giant oil and gas fields on Tuesday as it sought to take charge of its own reconstruction after six years of war, but oil companies were reluctant to pay what it asked.

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Rita Lau, Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development holds up Disneyland designs at a press conference in Hong Kong on June 30, 2009. US entertainment giant Disney and the Hong Kong government reached a long-awaited agreement to expand the southern Chinese city's beleaguered Disneyland amusement park. The deal -- which will see Disney invest 6.2 billion Hong Kong dollars (795 million USD) in the joint venture -- will fund 30 new attractions at the park over the next five years, the government said in a statement.

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Male and female models pose before a "Style Model Hunt" competition at a shopping mall in Hong Kong June 30, 2009. The competition, co-organized by Style Modeling Agency, features 22 models of which most of them have only had two months of model training.

panzerkom · 06-30-2009

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Originally Posted by bd popeye

Thanks for that answer and thanks for viewing the thread.

I hope all of you gents that check this thread daily enjoy it!

a follow-up on the Green Dam story -- looks like the software will NOT be required after all: CNN article

I just hope CNN would turn down their sensationalism a notch, cuz on their headlines page, it says "China mandates filters on new computers", whereas the title of the article says "Report: China extends deadline on filtering software", but in the article, it's actually revealed that the roll-out has been "postponed indefinitely."

bd popeye · 07-01-2009

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Students carry a national flag of China (front) and a Hong Kong flag during a parade on the streets of Hong Kong July 1, 2009. Wednesday marked the 12th anniversary of the territory's handover to China from Britain.

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A protester tied himself to a flag pole at the Government Headquarters after a pro-democracy march had ended in Hong Kong July 2, 2009.

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Police remove a protester who was occupying the Government Headquarters after a pro-democracy march had ended in Hong Kong July 2, 2009. Wednesday marked the 12th anniversary of the territory's handover to China from Britain.

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Pro-democracy activists carrying a wreath are blocked by the police between fences near a flag-raising ceremony in Hong Kong July 1, 2009.

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Bottom photo...Protestors from the "Complains Choir of Hong Kong" sing out their problems during a pro-democracy march in Hong Kong on July 1, 2009. Tens of thousands of people took to the sweltering streets for the annual march, as the city marked the 12th anniversary of its return to China. Organisers said the major impetus for the turnout was a combination of dissatisfaction with the government's response to the economic slowdown, surging unemployment and delayed moves towards universal suffrage.

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Children cool off playing at a water fountain in the plaza of a shopping mall in Beijing on July 1, 2009. A heat wave and prolonged drought continue to plague northern China, according to state media, as temperatures in beijing have hovered around 35 degrees for almost ten days with no sign of a temperature drop. With the hottest June in almost four decades, Beijing has also reported an all-time high in water usage of 2.78 million cubic metres daily.

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Detroit Tigers' Fu-Te Ni, from Taiwan, pitches against the Oakland Athletics in the seventh inning of a baseball game Wednesday, July 1, 2009, in Oakland, Calif.

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A Chinese man rides his tricycle laden with recyclable Styrofoam along a main road in central Beijing June 30, 2009. A 2008 Chinese government report said that better waste management through clearer garbage classification was vital if China was to not sink under the weight of its own rubbish within 13 years.

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Chinese hotel security show how they evacuate guests and staff during a security drill in Beijing on June 30, 2009, in preparation for the October 1 ceremonies to mark the founding of the People's Republic of China. Beijing will deploy half a million security guards and volunteers to prevent any disruptions to the October 1 ceremonies marking the 60th anniversary of Communist China. AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read AFP/AFP/Getty Images)

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Chinese hotel security show how they subdue a criminal during a security drill in Beijing on June 30, 2009, in preparation for the October 1 ceremonies to mark the founding of the People's Republic of China. (Photo credit should read AFP/AFP/Getty Images)

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A vistor admires a Han dynasty (188-141 BC) female terracotta on display at the "The Smiling Kingdom exhibition" at the National History Museum in Taipei on July 1, 2009. More then two hundred pieces of Han dynasty terracotta showcased at the exhibition to run until September 27. AFP PHOTO / Sam YEH (Photo credit should read SAM YEH/AFP/Getty Images)

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HONG KONG, CHINA - JUNE 29: A model walks the runway for the preview of COACH autumn collection at Causeway Bay Times Square on June 29, 2009 in Hong Kong, China. (Photo by Tungstar/Getty Images

bd popeye · 07-02-2009

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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, right, greets former United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in Beijing, China, Thursday, July 2, 2009.

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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, right, meets with former United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, left, and former Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi, center, in Beijing, China, Thursday, July 2, 2009. Wen met Kissinger, Prodi and other former leaders before the opening of the Global Think Tank Summit in Beijing later Thursday.

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A veterinarian carries the offspring of female panda Lin Hui at Chiang Mai Zoo, north of Bangkok, July 2, 2009. Lin Hui, a female panda on loan from China, gave birth to the baby panda in Thailand on May 27 after being artificially inseminated with her partner's sperm for a second time.

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Air China planes taxi on the tarmac in front of the new terminal building at Beijing Capital International Airport July 2, 2009. China increased jet fuel prices on Monday, the second in as many months, by a massive 22 percent, and comes just days after the International Air Transport Association announced that the world's airlines lost more than $3 billion in the first quarter of 2009 due to weak travel demand and lower freight volumes in the global recession, the higher fuel prices and also the H1N1 flu pandemic.

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A man walks past a 60th anniversary propaganda billboard in Beijing which reads "Praise China, pay tribute to the State" on July 2, 2009, showing the protectors of the state: the army, navy and airforce. Three months before the October 1st 60th anniversary of Communist China, a period of tension has set in, as the regime mobilises its sizable security and propaganda apparatus to nip any trouble in the bud.

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Students from Kaohsiung High School in Taiwan tour Los Angeles and stop at Michael Jackson's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame near Graumans Chinese Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard, July 2, 2009.

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Former lawmaker Anson Chan (C) takes part in a protest march demanding universal suffrage in Hong Kong July 1,2009. Wednesday marked the 12th anniversary of the territory's handover to China from Britain.

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WUHAN, CHINA - JULY 01: (CHINA OUT) Local residents participate in a beer drinking competition during the 2009 Wuhan Snow Beer Festival on July 1, 2009 in Wuhan of Hubei Province, China. (Photo by Zhou Chao/ChinaFotoPress/Getty Images)

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HONG KONG, CHINA - JULY 01: Miss Hong Kong 2009 candidates return to Hong Kong after an eight-day exterior shooting from Japan at Hong Kong Airport on July 1, 2009 in Hong Kong, China. (Photo by Tungstar/Getty Images)

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Chinese residents go about their chores after a heavy downpour flooded the town of Pingxiang, eastern China's Jiangxi province on July 1, 2009, killing two people when their house collapsed. Eleven people were killed in parts of eastern and southwestern China in some of the heaviest rain so far in 2009, state media reported on July 2. CHINA OUT AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read AFP/AFP/Getty Images)

bd popeye · 07-04-2009

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Buildings stand partially submerged by a swelling river in Liuzhou, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region July 4, 2009. Torrential rain battering southern China has forced more than 150,000 people from their homes, toppled hundreds of houses and punched a dangerous hole in the spillway of a dam, Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday.

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Chinese men smash rocks to reinforce a the Kama reservoir dam which was damaged by heavy rains in Luocheng, southern China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region on Friday, July 3, 2009. Over 300,000 people have been moved in southern China after heavy rain toppled houses, flooded roads, and damaged a reservoir channel, China's official Xinhua News Agency said. (AP Photo)

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People make their way across a flooded street on a boat in Rongshui, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region July 3, 2009. Rainstorms since early the week have swept a wide swathe of south China, leaving dozens people dead or missing and forcing hundreds of thousands to evacuate, Xinhua News Agency reported. Picture taken July 3, 2009.

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In this photo distributed by the official Xinhua news agency, boats move in the flooded street of Rongshui County, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, on Friday July 3, 2009. Torrential rains fell some regions in Guangxi from Thursday to Friday, according to Xinhua.

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Women use their laptop computers at a wireless cafe in Beijing on July 3, 2009. Several PC makers said they were voluntarily including China's controversial Internet filter software in new shipments despite Beijing's decision to postpone making it mandatory after China this week indefinitely delayed a plan requiring that all new computers come with a Chinese-made filtering programme, the "Green Dam Youth Escort", making the postponement known just hours before the July 1 deadline. The government has said the software was aimed at filtering out pornography, but computer experts found it was also programmed to suppress politically sensitive material, prompting criticism at home and abroad.

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Participants outfit themselves with costumes as cartoon characters at the 5th Fantasy China Friday, July 3, 2009 in Shanghai, China. The Japanese originated hobby that people dress up like their favorite anime characters is called cosplaying, as in costume playing.

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An employee marks Renminbi banknotes at a bank in Suining, Sichuan province July 3, 2009. China hopes for diversification of the international currency system in the future and it would be "normal" for the issue to be raised at next week's Group of Eight summit, Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei said.

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Beijing police officers step out of the arrival terminal at the airport in Beijing on July 3, 2009. Furious relatives of a Chinese woman being treated for swine flu stoned an ambulance in a rampage at the hospital a day after the 34-year-old woman after she died of electric shock, state media reported. More than 20 relatives attacked the No. 1 People's Hospital in east China's Hangzhou city on July 2, pelting the ambulance with rocks and damaged other property before leaving, according to Xinhua. Hangzhou police Friday said an autopsy had showen that electric shock was indeed the cause of death, the agency said in a separate report, but provided no other details.

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Two migrant workers sleep atop their belongings at a railway station on a hot day in central Beijing July 3, 2009. Temperatures in 10 major cities of China, including Beijing, are forecasted to be slightly hotter than usual in July to September, data from the China Meteorological Administration showed.

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Buddhist worshippers gather for a glimpse of the pearl-like translucent multi-coloured relics which are believed to be the corporeal remains of Buddha after his cremation, at a temple in Beijing on July 2, 2009. Buddhism is the most important religion in China, which influence spread in 67 AD during the Han Dynasty (206 BC-220) from Hotan in Xinjiang to Central China.

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Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou speaks at the National Assembly in Panama July 2, 2009. Ma attended the inauguration of Panama's President Ricardo Martinelli yesterday.

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Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega (L) and Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou greet each other in Managua July 3, 2009. President Ma Ying-jeou is in Nicaragua on an official visit.

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Detroit Tigers' Fu-Te Ni, of Taiwan, pitches against the Minnesota Twins during the sixth inning of a baseball game Friday, July 3, 2009 in Minneapolis.

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A model presents hair and make-up creations during a show at the China International Hairdressing & Beauty Festival in Beijing July 4, 2009.

bd popeye · 07-05-2009

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Taiwanese fans hold white roses while watching videos of Michael Jackson concerts at a Taipei memorial to pay tribute to the late King of Pop, Sunday, July 5, 2009, in Taipei, Taiwan.

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Local fans pray to mourn for Michael Jackson at a memorial event Saturday July 4, 2009 in Shanghai, China. A week after the death of Michael Jackson crowds still gather in China to mourn.

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A dead pig lies along a trail after floodwaters recede near the town of Dayu, east China's Jiangxi province on July 4, 2009. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao ordered local officials to step up flood control work in south China after over 150,000 people were forced to evacuate following torrential rains.

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A Chinese stock investor checks her share prices at a security firm in Hefei, eastern China's Anhui province on July 3, 2009. China may allow foreign firms with investments inside the country to list domestically, as part of efforts to boost trader confidence during the global downturn.

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Chinese firemen and medical personnel remove a victim after he was pulled out from a sewer manhole where seven people died, including a fireman after workmen tried to repair a gas leak, in Beijing on July 3, 2009. China has a poor work safety record, with thousands of people dying every year in mines, factories and on construction sites.

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Chinese medical personnel help hand down packets of liquids into a sewer manhole during a rescue attempt after seven people died, including a fireman after workmen tried to repair a gas leak in Beijing on July 3, 2009.

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Chinese laborers dig up old rail tracks to be replaced with new ones in Hefei, eastern China's Anhui province on July 3, 2009. The Chinese State Council recently approved a new 292 billion USD railway investment plan up to 2020, and as a result of the increased investment, the country's railway network is expected to grow from 78,000 km at the end of 2007 to 100,000 km by the end of 2010 and ultimately 120,000 km by 2020.

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Security guards wearing masks stand at an entrance of a hotel where the teachers and students from Beijing Nanhu Zhongyuan primary school are being held under quarantine, in Beijing, July 3, 2009. Another 10 H1NI flu cases have been confirmed at the same primary school in Beijing where seven pupils were confirmed with the flu on Wednesday, according to official media

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A Chinese model parades in a swimsuit during the New Silk Road Model Look China contest in Beijing on July 3, 2009. The contest will stage its final round later this year in Sanya on China's southern resort island of Hainan, where top Chinese models will be judged by a panel of top fashion experts.

bd popeye · 07-06-2009

Gentlemen, I'm going to forgo posting photos of China today. The problem is only a hand full of photos are appearing at the main website I use. And those are CCTV video captures of the unfortunate violence in Xinjiang. And on Getty all I'm getting is fashion week, film stars and concerts for recent photos of China.

Curious.

I will post what I do find later today or tomorrow. I will post the few photos of the rioting in Xinjiang in that thread.

bd popeye · 07-06-2009

The Chinese photos are finally up! Here's a few! Enjoy!

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China's President Hu Jintao arrives to attend a news conference with Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in Rome July 6, 2009. Hu is on a state visit to Italy and will attend the summit by G8 and G5 leaders in L'Aquila.

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Uighur democracy leader Rebiya Kadeer speaks to the press on the unrest in China's western Xinjiang province at the National Press Club in Washington on July 6, 2009. China said at least 156 people were killed and over 800 injured when Muslim Uighurs rioted in its restive Xinjiang region in some of the deadliest ethnic unrest to have hit the country for decades. The violence in the regional capital Urumqi on July 5 involved thousands of people, and triggered an enormous security crackdown across Xinjiang where tensions have long simmered amid Uighur claims of repressive Chinese rule.

VERY GRAPHIC!!

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In this image made from video, dead bodies lie next to the corner of a building in Urumqi, China, the capital of western China's Muslim region during the deadliest ethnic violence in decades on Sunday, July 5, 2009.

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Charred watermelons on a truck damaged during Sunday's protest in Urumqi, China, Monday, July 6 , 2009.

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A resident stands near a burnt car dealership in Urumqi, China, Monday, July 6 , 2009.

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A local man walks past a Chinese armoured personnel carrier (APC) as it patrols the streets of Urumqi, Xinjiang Autonomous Region, in China July 6, 2009.

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Protesters wait for the arrival of Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou at the Sun Yat-sen memorial in Chinatown of Honolulu, Hawaii July 5, 2009.

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Jennifer Jeng holds a sign in protest of Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou's visit in Honolulu, Hawaii July 4, 2009.

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Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou bows to the statue at the Sun Yat-sen memorial in Chinatown in Honolulu, Hawaii July 5, 2009.

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Residents go about their daily chores outside their "hutong" alley homes after their neighbourhood was quarantined when some residents were diagnosed with the swine flu in Beijing on July 5, 2009. A(H1N1) flu virus was declared a global pandemic in June by the World Health Organization, has infected 89,921 people in 125 countries and territories and caused 382 deaths worldwide, according to the latest World Health Organization (WHO) figures.

bd popeye · 07-07-2009

Not very many pleasant photos coming from China today..

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China's President Hu Jintao and his wife Liu Yongqing (L) pose in front of the Leaning Tower in Pisa July 7, 2009. Hu is on a state visit to Italy and will attend the summit by G8 and G5 leaders in L'Aquila.

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Fans of late pop singer Michael Jackson weep during a farewell memorial in Hong Kong on July 7, 2009. Devoted fans of Michael Jackson across Asia said farewell to the "King of Pop" on Tuesday, singing his greatest hits, watching videos and gathering for a late-night viewing of the memorial in Los Angeles.

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Locals look over the shoulder of a man as he reads a speech by Wang Lequan, party secretary of Xinjiang Autonomous Region, asking that all residents of the city of Urumqi to"'go home" after a curfew was announced July 7, 2009.

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Han Chinese men shout anti-Uigher slogans as they are stopped by paramilitary police from attacking Uigher properties in Urumqi, western China's Xinjiang province, Tuesday, July 7, 2009. Rioting in the Xinjiang region broke out Sunday and killed at least 156 people. Tuesday's new violence came despite swarms of paramilitary and riot police enforcing a dragnet that state media said led to the arrest of more than 1,400 people in the often tense region.

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Muslim ethnic Uighur help a woman who collapsed during a protest in Urumqi in China's far west Xinjiang province on July 7, 2009 following a third day of unrest. Police fired tear gas to disperse thousands of Han Chinese protesters armed with makeshift weapons and vowing revenge, as chaos gripped this flashpoint city riven by ethnic tensions following rioting that claimed at least 156 lives. Authorities ordered a night curfew and thousands of heavily armed police deployed across Urumqi.

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Muslim ethnic Uighurs women protest over missing husbands in Urumqi in China's far west Xinjiang province on July 7, 2009 following a third day of unrest. Police fired tear gas to disperse thousands of Han Chinese protesters armed with makeshift weapons and vowing revenge, as chaos gripped this flashpoint city riven by ethnic tensions following rioting that claimed at least 156 lives. Authorities ordered a night curfew and thousands of heavily armed police deployed across Urumqi.

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