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The first group of Chinese citizens to be evacuated by the Chinese government from Libya arrive at Beijing Capital Airport in Beijing on Feburary 24, 2011. China ramped up a massive air, sea and land operation to evacuate more than 30,000 citizens from unrest-hit Libya.

A woman reads a recruitment brochure outside an electronics factory in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen February 17, 2011. Labour shortages in Chinese coastal factories are nothing new. The world's workshop has been churning out the exports again after hitting a lull during the global financial crisis. But workers are becoming more choosy about the kind of jobs they want to end the long hours, tedious work and poor benefits offered in China's many sweatshops. Picture taken February 17, 2011.

Migrant workers rest inside the dormitory of a metal works factory in the southern Chinese city of Dongguan February 17, 2011.

Chinese migrant workers take a lunch break at a construction site in Hefei, east China's Anhui province on Feburary 23, 2011. Home prices in most major Chinese cities rose in January, the government said, in its first such announcement since changing the way it publishes the cost of property across the country.

Photo taken on January 8, 2011 shows cabinet-sized rooms at China's first capsule hotel in Shanghai. The capsule hotel in the downtown has failed to receive approval for operations due to safety concerns, the city's fire authorities said on Feburary 24, 2011.

WUXI, CHINA - FEBRUARY 23: Flames and smoke rise after an explosion at a chemical plant on February 23, 2011 in Wuxi, China. According to local media authorities, the cause of the explosion is unknown and has suggested that there were no injuries sustained in the blast.

SHANGHAI, CHINA - FEBRUARY 23: Fake branded sunglasses are seen before being crushed on February 23, 2011 in Shanghai, China. Products from brands such as Louis Vuitton, Burberry, Armarni and North Face were destroyed as Shanghai Industrial and Commercial authorities destroyed more than 425,700 fake products on Wednesday. As fake products increase, the bureau will continue to track down on fake markets.

SHANGHAI, CHINA - FEBRUARY 23: A local policeman looks on in front of a wall of counterfeit products on February 23, 2011 in Shanghai, China.

SHANGHAI, CHINA - FEBRUARY 23: Local policemen and members of the public look on as the road roller crushes the counterfeit products on February 23, 2011 in Shanghai, China.

Chinese rescue team, consisted of one expert in seism, two experts in mechanics, seven rescuers and equipped with radar life detectors, would launch rescue operations throughout Christchurch, New Zealand's second largest city. Over 200 people remain missing following major earthquake in Christchurch.

Actress Liu Yifei promotes her new film "A Chinese Fairy Tale" in Beijing on Wednesday, February 23, 2011.[Photo/xinhua]

Cast members of "A Chinese Fairy Tale" Lin Peng, Gong Xinliang, Wangdan Yili, Liu Yifei and Kara Hui.[Photo/xinhua]

Bank staffers practice their smiles by biting on chopsticks at the Jinling Branch of Jinzhou Bank, in Jinzhou city, Northeast China's Liaoning province, Feb 23, 2011. It was part of the bank's professional training program aimed at improving the personnel's service quality. [Photo/Asianewsphoto]

China's youngest female commercial pilot:

Wang Zheng, China’s Prettiest Young Female Pilot [Pictures] – Viewology.Net

Meet Wang Zheng, she is being hailed as China’s prettiest young female captain!

While still a few months shy of 29 years old, Wang Zheng is the youngest female captain of Chinese national carrier Air China.

Initially majoring in electronic information science and technology, Miss Wang enrolled herself to be a female pilot when she was a sophomore in Chinese Civil Aviation University.

Wang entered Air China in 2005, and began flying as in-flight officer in October 2006. She was eventually promoted to be a captain in July 2010, becoming the only female captain of Air China.

Wang Zheng currently flies Airbus A321 passenger jet.

You can found more details about this girl from this report.

Some Chinese internet male users are being charmed by Wang Zheng’s beauty and thinking high of her choice of pilot as her profession.

“Would you like to be my wifey? I’d like to do cookings and washings everyday for you.” bantered one.

“Women are not inferior to men. Though piloting a plane is usually a job for men, women can do this business as well because in terms of carefulness men are not as competent as women. We guys must feel proud for her, and should never look down those female pilots,” another commented.

Worker recalls horror in Libya.

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Worker recalls horror in Libya - China News - SINA English

After a week of harrowing experiences in Libya, Dong Shubao landed safely in Shanghai Thursday afternoon, swearing he would never return to the troubled North African nation.

Having been working for more than five months in Tubruq, a city some 170 kilometers from the Libyan border with Egypt, the 44-year-old worker from Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province, never imagined he would be faced with armed gangsters running amok.

Dong was among 30,000 Chinese nationals who worked in Libya. More than 4,200 Chinese arrived safely Thursday in the Greek port of Heraklion after being evacuated.

"We stopped working at our construction site February 17th after receiving information about the unrest, but we never thought bandits would rob us," Dong recalled.

"Around 20 armed men came to our construction site Saturday evening and began ransacking it. Concerned for our safety, our boss told us not to fight back and to give them anything they wanted," said Dong, who, along with his coworkers, was sent packing with nothing but his clothes.

After the attack, the Chinese embassy in Libya arranged seven vehicles for them and drove the workers to Tripoli.

"We stayed in hotels for two days there before being sent to Egypt. I could hear gunshots every night. It was so terrifying that I do not want to return to that country anymore," Dong said.

"It feels really good to be home. Compared with those who are still in Libya waiting for evacuation, I'm really lucky because I heard the situation there is getting worse and worse," Dong added.

Media reports point to Dong being right, as Libya seemed to be plunging toward open civil war with protesters marching on the capital.

According to Reuters, forces loyal to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi launched a counterattack Thursday, fighting fierce gun battles with rebels who have threatened the Libyan leader by seizing important towns close to the capital.

Checkpoints were set up in the west of Tripoli for the first time, with anyone wishing to pass needing official papers, The New York Times reported.

According to the BBC, in the eastern city of Benghazi, residents have been queuing to receive guns looted from army and police depots, so that they may join the battle for Tripoli.

News Headlines from across China - SINA English

China strives to evacuate nationals from Libya
2011-02-25 01:54:29 GMT2011-02-25 09:54:29(Beijing Time) Xinhua English

by Lin Liping, Liao Lei and Tan Jingjing

BEIJING, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- In one of its largest-ever withdrawal efforts of nationals from abroad, China has been working hard to evacuate its tens of thousands of nationals from riot-torn Libya in the past few days.

Some 12,000 Chinese nationals have so far been evacuated from the north African country, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Song Tao said early Friday morning.

Song told reporters about the latest figure at the Beijing International Airport shortly after welcoming back 224 Chinese flying home by taking the first chartered plane sent by the Chinese government to evacuate its nationals from Libya, which arrived at the airport at 2:15 a.m.Friday (GMT 1815 Thursday).

The Air China CA060 flight, which flew Wednesday to this north African country thrown into chaos by anti-government uprisings and protests, left Libya's capital Tripoli Thursday afternoon.

So far, the Chinese government has sent two chartered planes to evacuate its nationals from Libya, carrying task groups and emergency relief materials.

The second chartered plane has also departed Egypt's Cairo, taking another batch of Chinese back home. The plane is expected to arrive in Beijing at 9:00 a.m. Friday local time (GMT 0100).

In the past few days, the Chinese nationals in Libya, mostly employees of Chinese companies with businesses in Libya, had been evacuated to neighboring countries including Greece, Egypt and Tunisia by ocean liners, airplanes or coaches, according to the Foreign Ministry.

The evacuated Chinese on board the first chartered plane are mainly engineers and technicians working in Libya and their family members.

They said they were frightened but now feel safe after coming back home.

"We almost burst into tears when we heard that our government had chartered a plane to take us back home," Jiang Ying, a mother of a 20-month baby from the central Hubei Province, told Xinhua.

Jiang, who went to Libya last June to join his husband working for a communication company, said it had been hard to even get food and water in Libya and they could not sleep at night.

"My husband is still there, I hope he and his colleagues can come home safe as soon as possible," she said.

The 224 nationals were warmly welcomed at the airport by You Quan, a senior official of the State Council, and some other officials from the Foreign Ministry and other departments.

Vice Foreign Minister Song Tao hailed the arrival of the first chartered plane as "important progress in the evacuation of Chinese nationals from Libya."

The Chinese government has been evacuating the nationals by air, sea and land routes, involving chartered planes, hired ocean liners and coaches.

Meanwhile, according to the information office of the Chinese Defense Ministry, a Chinese navy frigate of the "Xuzhou" fleet, which had been conducting its escorting mission in the Aden Gulf, has left for the waters surrounding Libya to provide support and protection for the ships evacuating the Chinese nationals.

However, the vice foreign minster noted that the evacuation work faces challenges as there are still a large number of Chinese stranded in Libya and the situation in Libya remains complicated.

He said the foreign ministry will continue to work with relevant departments, embassies abroad and the Chinese enterprises in Libya to evacuate all the Chinese from Libya in a safe and orderly way.

Originally Posted by Spartan95

China's youngest female commercial pilot:

Wang Zheng, China’s Prettiest Young Female Pilot [Pictures] – Viewology.Net

not too shabby either

I'll second that!^^^ This is a very attractive woman.

Initially majoring in electronic information science and technology, Miss Wang enrolled herself to be a female pilot when she was a sophomore in Chinese Civil Aviation University.

Wang Zheng currently flies Airbus A321 passenger jet.

You can found more details about this woman from this report.

A throne of the Qianlong Emperor of China is displayed on February 25, 2011 at the Chateau de Versailles, southwest of Paris, prior to the exhibition 'Trones en majeste' ('thrones in majesty'). Some 40 emblematic thrones from different periods and civilisations are on display in the palace of Versailles during this exhibition which runs from March 1st, 2011 to June 19, 2011.

China-economy-drought-farm,FOCUS by Boris CambrelengChinese farmers fix a water pump at a well in eastern China, where a record drought threatens to push global food prices up on February 22, 2011. The Chinese government has allocated 13 billion yuan ($2 billion) to combat the drought and the central bank announced this week it would allocate 10 billion yuan in loans to farmers.

Liao Juhua (5th R, Back), Chinese Consul General to Auckland, poses with Chinese rescue team members upon their arrival at an airport in Auckland, New Zealand, on Feb. 25, 2011. The 10-member Chinese rescue team, including experts and rescuers, arrived in Auckland on Friday and headed for the quake area in Christchurch by New Zealand's military aircraft. (Xinhua/Li Yaoyu)

New Zealand's Prime Minister John Key (C) meets with relief workers from China during a tour of a tent city where hundreds of international and local relief workers have been housed in central Christchurch February 26, 2011. Violent aftershocks hampered desperate efforts to find survivors in the quake-ruined New Zealand city of Christchurch on Saturday as the death toll climbed to 123 and was set to rise further.

A vase entitled "Falangcai Vase With Golden Pheasants and a Poetic Colophon" from Chinese Qing Dynasty period is displayed at Sotheby's auction media preview of Imperial Chinese Porcelain collections in Hong Kong, China, Friday, Feb. 25, 2011. The vase is expected to fetch around US$23 million in the April 7 auction in Hong Kong.

A Blue-and-white "Palace bowl" with melons from Chinese Ming Dynasty period is displayed at Sotheby's auction media preview of Imperial Chinese Porcelain collections in Hong Kong, China, Friday, Feb. 25, 2011. The bowl is expected to fetch around US$10.3 million in the April 7 auction in Hong Kong.

Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Chairman Li Shufu (L), Volvo CEO Stefan Jacoby (C), and Volvo China Chairman Freeman Shen stand next to a Volvo S60 car during the Volvo Cars China Business Strategy Launch in Beijing February 25, 2011. China's Geely-owned Volvo will invest up to $11 billion into new product development and facilities over the next five years, its chief executive said on Friday, as the vintage Swedish brand moves to raise its global profile.

People line up outside one of the Shanghai outlets Best Buy closed earlier this week to complain or seek help with customer service as security guard personnel stand guard Friday, Feb. 25, 2011 in Shanghai, China. Minneapolis-based Best Buy opened its flagship store and other outlets in Shanghai just a few years ago, to great fanfare. This week it closed all nine of its brand name stores in China, stunning employees and customers.

Many photos of Chinese being evacuated from Libya..

Chinese Evacuation from Libya

Evacuees from Libya, mostly Chinese, arrive at the port of Herakleion, on Crete island on February 24, 2011. Thousands of Chinese and scores of Europeans began landing Thursday at the port of Heraklion on the Greek island of Crete after their evacuation from unrest-hit Libya aboard chartered Greek ferries. The first boat from the Libyan port of Benghazi, the ferry Hellenic Spirit, reached Heraklion after 1200 GMT and was followed by the ferry Olympic champion

Top Chinese negotiator Chen Yunlin (C) arrives at Kaohsiung port in southern Taiwan on February 25, 2011.

Top Chinese negotiator Chen Yunlin attends a briefing aboard a boat during a visit to Kaohsiung port in southern Taiwan on February 25, 2011. A senior Chinese official arrived in south Taiwan, a hotbed of anti-Beijing sentiments, as protesters threw eggs and flowers, in reference to Tunisia's 'Jasmine revolution'.

February 11, 2011. It's been a way to unwind and get a deal done in Asia for over 40 years; crooning like Sinatra, camping it up like Abba or rocking like Elvis, often to a room full of stone-faced men in suits. Karaoke is big business. And business is booming to the sound of singing.

Hong Kong artists Miriam Yeung attends the announcing ceremony of the 35th Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF) as the festival's ambassador in Hong Kong, south China, Feb. 24, 2011. The 35th HKIFF will take place between Mar. 20 and Apr. 5, 2011 and will open with the films "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" and "Quattro Hong Kong 2". (Xinhua/Chen Xiaowei)

A man gets caught into a horse fighting contest in Anchui village, Rongshui Miao autonomous county in Southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, Feb 19, 2011. [Photo/Asianewsphoto]

Ding Shilu, an automobile mechanic, carries out a test-flight for his self-made aircraft at a frozen reservoir in Shenyang, Liaoning province February 25, 2011. The aircraft which weights about 130 kg (287 lbs) and made of recycled materials including three motorbike engines and plastic cloth, cost about 2600 yuan ($395), local media reported. [Photo/Agencies]

How many bodyguards in this shot?

Originally Posted by Geographer

How many bodyguards in this shot?

He prob needs them. I saw on the TW news that they had many officers but certain very 'emotional' protesters make huge individual efforts to ram past the human blockade of cops. Of course they usually ended up wailing around on the ground getting surrounded by 5 security officers but good effort none the less.

A man gets caught into a horse fighting contest in Anchui village, Rongshui Miao autonomous county in Southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, Feb 19, 2011. [Photo/Asianewsphoto]

And they just stood there and watched with smiles instead of helping.
tsk tsk tsk

Chinese rodeo clowns needed!

China International Wedding Expo kicked off in Shanghai February 25, 2011. The expo provides exhibitors with the opportunity to showcase their products, high-level equipment and the world's wedding photography trends, plus the exchange and trade between the domestic and overseas wedding industries

A total of 40 fashion creations designed by students of Fu Jen Catholic University were displayed in a fashion show during the Taipei Flora Expo in Taipei, southeast China's Taiwan, Feb. 24, 2011

A man surfs the Internet with a WiFi signal provided by a telephone booth in downtown Shanghai on Feb 24. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY

SHANGHAI - A total of 500 public telephone booths in downtown Shanghai have been equipped with WiFi hotspots to enable the city to go wireless, bringing new life to the almost abandoned public phone booths

Taiwanese protesters from the main opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) display missile placards to demand China remove missiles deployed in parts on China close to Taiwan as Chinese top negotiator Chen Yunlin visits the southern Yunlin county on February 26, 2011. A senior Chinese official continued his tour of southern Taiwan, a hotbed of anti-Beijing sentiments.

Chinese nationals line the decks of the Grimaldi ferry "Cruise Roma" after it berthed in Valletta's Grand Harbour, February 26, 2011. A total of 2,216 Chinese nationals arrived on the ferry in Malta on Saturday morning after being evacuated from Benghazi, according to local media.

Chinese citizens wait aboard the "Palermo Grimaldi" ferry at the harbor in Valletta, Malta, Saturday, Feb. 26, 2011, after being evacuated from Benghazi, Libya.

Chinese top negotiator Chen Yunlin (C) holds a bottle of Taiwan wine before a meeting with Taiwan selected farmers in the southern Yunlin county on February 26, 2011. A senior Chinese official continued his tour of southern Taiwan, a hotbed of anti-Beijing sentiments.

Taiwanese protesters from the main opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) shout slogans with banners, placards & display local vegetables as they demand no cheap Chinese vegetable imports during the visit of as Chinese top negotiator Chen Yunlin visits the southern Yunlin county on February 26, 2011. A senior Chinese official continued his tour of southern Taiwan, a hotbed of anti-Beijing sentiments.

National Governors Association (NGA) Chair, Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire,seated, left, and Vice President Chinese People's Associations for Friendship with Foreign Countries Li Xiaolin sign economic agreements between U.S. Governors and Chinese leaders during National Governors Association winter meeting in Washington, Saturday Feb. 26, 2011. In the background is NGA Vice Chair Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman, left, and Secretary Zhou Qiang, Hunan Provincial Committee.

Originally Posted by bd popeye

A man gets caught into a horse fighting contest in Anchui village, Rongshui Miao autonomous county in Southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, Feb 19, 2011. [Photo/Asianewsphoto]

Serves him right for being at something called a horse fighting contest.

PS thanks to popeye for doing this thread .

Originally Posted by CardSharp

Serves him right for being at something called a horse fighting contest.

PS thanks to popeye for doing this thread .

You are welcome.

I think the man was some sort of official. He does have a red helmet. What's interesting is how many folks are just standing around (laughing & smiling) watching this man get his ass kicked by a horse..

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (L) holds an online chat with Internet users at two state news portals in Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 27, 2011. The two portals, namely ä¸*å�Žäººæ°‘共和国ä¸*å¤®äººæ°‘æ”¿åºœé—¨æˆ·ç½‘ç« ™ of the central government and æ–°å�Žç½‘_ä¼*æ’*ä¸*国 报é�“世界 of the Xinhua News Agency, jointly interviewed Premier Wen on Sunday with questions raised by netizens. [Pang Xinglei/Xinhua]

Chinese workers go about their chores at a textile factory in Hefei, east China's Anhui province on February 24, 2011. Premier Wen Jiabao said China had set a lower than usual economic growth target and pledged to contain soaring prices as concern over runaway growth mounts, as the world's second-largest economy would aim for seven percent annual growth over the next five years -- a rare lowering of its usual target of eight percent expansion, until now seen as key to staving off social unrest.

A Chinese bank worker counts a stack of 100-yuan notes at a bank in Hefei, east China's Anhui province on February 27, 2011. A sharp rise in the Chinese yuan would bankrupt businesses and leave workers jobless, Premier Wen Jiabao said in one of the strongest recent defences of the country's forex policy.

Participants hold candles as they attend a memorial service to commemorate Szeto Wah, a local democracy icon, in Victoria Park in Hong Kong February 27, 2011. At least 1,500 people gathered in a Hong Kong park to commemorate a democracy icon who helped dissidents escape China after the Tiananmen occurrence.

Workers clear the crash site after a freight train was derailed in a collision with a truck in Tianjin on February 26, 2011. China would continue to 'push forward' a massive expansion of the country's huge railway system, but safety concerns must come to the forefront, said Sheng Guangzu, the railway ministry's newly named Communist Party chief, as the ambitious development of China's huge rail network, which is set to be expanded to 120,000 kilometres (74,400 miles) by 2020, up from about 86,000 kilometres in 2010.

A policeman patrols outside a Mcdonald's restaurant along the shopping street of Wangfujing in Beijing, after calls for a "Jasmine Revolution" protest organized through the internet February 27, 2011. An online call for anti-government protests across China on Sunday instead brought an emphatic show of force by police determined to deter any buds of the kind of unrest that has shaken the Middle East. Lines of police checked passers-by and warned away foreign photo journalists in downtown Beijing and Shanghai after a U.S.-based Chinese website spread calls for Chinese people to emulate the "Jasmine Revolution" sweeping the Middle East and stage gatherings in support of democratic change.

Chinese democracy activist Wuer Kaixi (C) shouts slogans in support of calls for a "Jasmine Revolution" protest in China, during a gathering at the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei February 27, 2011.

Chinese nationals evacuated from Libya arrive at Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing, China, Feb. 27, 2011.

BEIJING, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) -- More than 20,000 Chinese nationals had been evacuated from unrest-wracked Libya as of Sunday, according to China's Foreign Ministry.

About 1,400 had returned to China while 3,400 were on their way to a third country, said a statement from the ministry.

An estimated 15,200 were temporarily in a third country: 7,200 on the Greek island of Crete, 2,100 in Malta and 5,900 on the Tunisian island of Djerba, said the Chinese ministry.

"Almost all Chinese citizens have been pulled out of eastern Libya, from the area in and around Benghazi," it said.

In almost all of today's newspapers there is mention of yet another "Jasmine Revolution" in China with, again, another McDonalds serving as the hub. This time however journalists from the BBC were arrested and a American journalist beaten up by the police. Fairly serious stuff now. But this time it seems US Ambassador Huntsman wasn't spotted....yet.

Originally Posted by bd popeye

An actual video of the Jasmine Revolution...from I-cable.

Pretty amazing footage. Here's US Ambassador Huntsman at last week's what-ever-it-was.