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• Photos: 1000 cats rescued by volunteers
• I’ve Seen All Good People: Trash Collector In Luoyang Spends His Meager Earnings On Fellow Townsfolk
• Sex, bribes and class struggle: Prominent Party theoretician fired
• Presented By:
• Southern Weekly's top five censored stories of 2012
• The daunting journey in China’s salvation station
• Air in Chinese cities bad for rural crops as well as people
• Saturday Night Musical Outro: David Bowie – Where Are We Now?
• Watch: Laowai yells at Chinese scooter driver for being 'an uncivilised piece of shit'
• In Uhmerica, 911 Operator Fuck-Up Costs Chinese Woman Her Life
• Shenzhen NPC delegates caught sleeping, playing with phones
• Want To Avoid Parking Fee? Pretend To Be A Ghost And Send The Security Guard Fleeing For His Life, Of Course

Photos: 1000 cats rescued by volunteers Posted: 19 Jan 2013 05:30 PM PST            Around 1000 cats were rescued by volunteers in Changsha, Hunan province, after the truck that was carrying them crashed en route to Guangdong's restaurants. The cats were crammed into wooden crates, many of which had overturned in the crash. A local police officer, Wang Yujing, who responded to the crash, appealed on Weibo for volunteers to rescue the poor felines. Dozens of volunteers came to help and the animals were treated at the scene. After the driver was paid for his shipment, all of the cats that had survived the crash were taken to a local animal shelter. [ more › ]

I’ve Seen All Good People: Trash Collector In Luoyang Spends His Meager Earnings On Fellow Townsfolk Posted: 19 Jan 2013 04:00 PM PST While the China blogosphere rolls out the usual news — your local PM 2.5 particulates and brutish chengguan – state media would like to remind you that there's a gentler side to this country. In the above video, as part of CNS TV's recent series on "Warming the Zhongyuan" (Central Plains), the anchorwoman reports: Although these days it isn't uncommon to donate to charity, including funding students, the commitment to helping others still comes mainly from the little people using their small contributions to represent a larger love. We went to Luoyang to get to meet an old man… 84 year-old Hu Fasheng of Luoyang, Henan spends most of his day scavenging for trash, but he uses most of his earnings to help out fellow villagers: pens and notebooks for students, mooncakes for the elderly. He's been at this for close to 11 years. This kind of selfless service toward the people of his community is commendable given Hu's own hardships. Queue crying local man; orchestral swells. Hu is making a small and inspirational impression in Luoyang, like many others throughout this amazing country. Next time you're down on the state of the PRC, feel free to turn toward these kind of stories, which are reminders of what brought you here in the first place: the good people who pursue a peaceful life.

Sex, bribes and class struggle: Prominent Party theoretician fired Posted: 19 Jan 2013 03:30 PM PST "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" is Marx's most famous saying. Now, the needs and ability of a prominent Marxist theoretician have cost him his job after accusations of improper social and economic relations (multiple lovers and bribery) proved impossible to quell. [ more › ]

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Southern Weekly's top five censored stories of 2012 Posted: 19 Jan 2013 12:00 PM PST Although the controversial newspaper has resumed publishing, and free-speech protests have fizzled out, the Southern Weekly continues to relish prodding and poking Beijing's hardliners. [ more › ]

The daunting journey in China’s salvation station Posted: 19 Jan 2013 10:44 AM PST Jacky Huang | January 19th, 2013 From ndnews: The Chang Sha Salvation Station on 23:50 Jan 7th In December 2012, a vagrant froze to death under a bridge in Chang Sha Yuhua District. Another happened on Jan 3rd, 2013 in Chang Sha Kaifu District. Two vagrants passed away in a few days in the same city. But why didn't they go to salvation station to seek warm and shelter? The journalist secretly investigated the salvation station in Chang Sha, presenting the true life of vagrant. "Any form of detention of people who seek for help is forbidden. Beating, scolding and physically punishing, abusing people who seek help are also forbidden." - From the "rescue management measures for vagrants and beggars in cities without support" after the 2003 Sun Zhigang incident, which a vagrant was beaten to death in salvation station in Guangzhou. 24 years on the road The reason why vagrants won't go to salvation station Luan Weidong started his work at night, 22:00 Jan 6th. He wore a frock, a cotton-padded pants and cotton shoes and searched in a trash bin with a big plastic bag hanging on one hand. The life of a garbage collector for three years, prior to Chang Sha, he has been a vagrant for 21 years around the whole country. He has been to a small coal mine in Xinjiang Province, and illegal brick factory in Henan Province. In 2009, he came to Chang Sha, because "it's warmer here". In the past three years, volunteers, the police, even the residences nearby have encouraged him to go to the salvation station. But he refused with smile every time. "The salvation station always sends people back to where they come from in the end, If I can survive in my hometown, why did I come out in the first place?" said Luan Weidong. He has been to the salvation station in other cities before, but felt like being a "prisoner" and left the place forever. The journalist has investigated 20 vagrants, and the results are unanimous. Although they dress poorly and suffer from hunger, nobody wants to go to the salvation station. They would rather collector garbage under the bridge, the tunnel, or beside the construction plant and the railway station. What is the salvation station like actually? The journalist of the newspaper went as a vagrant to conduct a secret investigation. Cannot get through the telephone line Calling ten times without answering The journalist was standing with Luan Weidong on the crossroad of Jiefang West Road at 21:00, Jan 7th. Luan gave the journalist a shabby cotton-padded coat. "I almost cannot recognize you" said Luan. The pedestrians walked by and called the salvation station in Tianxin District. 21:38, the first call was not answered. The following four calls were all busy on the line. The sixth call was able to get through, but nobody answered. The following four calls again responded with busy tones. 21:44, the residences called the police for help. 21:49, the local police station called back for inquiry. 21:55, two policemen arrived and took the journalist to the salvation station in Yaoling directly. Beaten by three people Hands and legs tied, head against by knees 22:30, the staffs in the salvation station agreed to rescue the journalist after confirming he was not drunk. About 5 minutes later, the police went away and the atmosphere suddenly changed. "What's your name? Where do you live?" The journalist found the staff was asking him angrily. Because the journalist was disguised as a deaf vagrant, he did not answer the question. After several times, the staff raised his voice. And one staff suddenly ran to him and tied his hands from behind. Then two pressed his legs firmly. Afraid of beaten escalation, the journalist asked for help: "the staffs in salvation station can't beat people!" The staff said: "I will not beat you" and then tripped him on the ground heavily on purpose. Then, two others pressed his leg firmly, making him still and hard to breath. Giving up rescue "Now you want to go? It's too late!" "I give up the rescue! I want to go out, I want to go out!" The journalist had to ask for mercy since he was almost knocked out unconscious. "Now you want to go? It's too late!" the staff used his knee against the journalist's head. "According to the law, people who ask for help can voluntarily accept or give up the rescue from salvation station. The station cannot detain any vagrant from his freedom." The journalist gave his reasons to leave but was denied. He had to tell his father's telephone number to the staff in the end. After connecting with his father, the staffs finally untied him. They then took out a form, saying the journalist had to sign in as "voluntarily give up the rescue" before he can leave. About 23:00, the journalist left the salvation station. Journalist witness An old vagrant tied in the station asking for help 23:30, another journalist went to the station to pick up the injured one. He found that an old vagrant was lying on a stretcher. His hands were tied by white hemp rope from behind. The rope was very tight. His legs were tied by tapes. He tried to sit up but cannot move. He had to turn to the journalist for help with upturned body. "Untie me, untie me!" said he. Passing by the old man, the journalist lowered his body and asked the reason why he was tied. The old man just begged: "Can you untie me first? Let go my leg and let me sit up." Wearing a rugged coat, the vagrant was very old with a grey hair. The blood on his mouth has scabbed. When asked whether he was beaten, he nodded his head and shed tears. "But I'm a journalist, not a staff here. I don't have the power to untie you." Hearing the words, the old man's eyes were fainted away, never paid attention to the journalist anymore. About one hour later, the old vagrant was gone.

Air in Chinese cities bad for rural crops as well as people Posted: 19 Jan 2013 07:15 AM PST Apparently, not only is the Mordor-esque air in Beijing and other cities hazardous to people, it's also killing rural plants and crops. [ more › ]

Saturday Night Musical Outro: David Bowie – Where Are We Now? Posted: 19 Jan 2013 05:30 AM PST We're in a good place. Be back with you after the night.

Watch: Laowai yells at Chinese scooter driver for being 'an uncivilised piece of shit' Posted: 19 Jan 2013 02:00 AM PST While we'd prefer that this country wasn't so homogenous that it becomes news every time a foreigner misbehaves, the British guy in the above video should have learned that if you have a temper tantrum in public someone will record it. [ more › ]

In Uhmerica, 911 Operator Fuck-Up Costs Chinese Woman Her Life Posted: 18 Jan 2013 11:42 PM PST AP reports: An Arkansas 911 operator did not enter a call into a computer system that would have notified police and fire dispatchers of a mother and son trapped inside a vehicle in a pond, authorities said Wednesday. The woman died hours later, and her 5-year-old son was in critical condition Wednesday, police said. The Little Rock operator who handled the call from 39-year-old Jinglei Yi has been placed on paid administrative leave while authorities try to figure out what happened. The operator has not been charged with any wrongdoing. Yi called 911 about 8 a.m. Monday after her vehicle hit a patch of ice, went over a curb and ended up in the pond, Police Department spokeswoman Sgt. Cassandra Davis said. A county dispatcher transferred the call to the 911 operator, who spoke with Yi briefly before hanging up and contacting an ambulance service. An ambulance was dispatched a few minutes later to the west Little Rock pond, but police officers and firefighters weren't dispatched until about a half-hour later — after the ambulance service called to verify that they were en route. If Chinese media cared to report this in the same manner that some Western media occasionally reports Chinese stories of this ilk, here's how it might look: A Chinese woman has lost her life after an American emergency hotline operator bungled her call for help. America experts wonder whether the case — with all the customary trappings of negligence and laziness – is symptomatic of American decline. That the operator is currently being paid to not work might be the clearest indictment of a system that has shown a disturbing tendency to reward carelessness and anti-intellectualism. The incident may also speak to America's long, unfortunate history of strained relations, often characterized by violence, with immigrants and foreigners, as most clearly exemplified by Arizona SB 1070. Here are what some American netizens said about the Arkansas incident: Manly HA: If it was a couple having an argument they would have sent 20 cops with guns drawn. Nameless Internet Guy: i was once in a head on collision and police and firefighters showed up, but the ambulance didn't. the police officer had to radio again for the ambulance. fortunately everything turned out okay, but it's scary to think that mistakes like this sometimes happen. Dan: Was the 911 call answered by customer service in India or have we not got that far yet. Jessepal: And these are the people we are to depend on to send help when an intruder with a gun is after us? I think I'll keep my gun-thanks anyway! The final comment is a reference to President Barack Obama's latest attempt to restrict the private ownership of assault weapons, a proposed law that American politicians actually oppose!

Shenzhen NPC delegates caught sleeping, playing with phones Posted: 18 Jan 2013 08:50 PM PST         The Shenzhen People's Congress opened its annual session Tuesday, and delegates once again displayed the hard work and dedication that are synonymous with China's parliament. [ more › ]

Want To Avoid Parking Fee? Pretend To Be A Ghost And Send The Security Guard Fleeing For His Life, Of Course Posted: 18 Jan 2013 10:10 PM PST We've seen some awful instances of what happens when a driver doesn't want to pay a road toll. This is not one of those instances. This is awesome. Early morning Tuesday (if the timestamp is to be believed), a car sans driver — like a modern headless horseman — pulls up to the toll gate of a parking lot at an undisclosed location in China. When the security guard leaves his booth to check it out — cue dramatic music — a "ghost" suddenly appears from the back of the car. The guard is terrified out of his shoes: he falls backward and then scampers off into the night, tongue ululating (we imagine) with fright. Such elaborate hijinks to avoid paying a parking fee. chinaSMACK has the translated story via Shanghai Morning Post's Sina Weibo: According to reports, one netizen claims the incident happened at a certain domestic scenic area's parking lot, the farce a result of the parking fee being too high. Well done, if I may say. It sure beats crashing through a toll gate while running over a cop in the process. Chinese Girl Scares Parking Attendant to Avoid Paying Fee (chinaSMACK)

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