From what I observe, the whole China road network is a bloody pedestrian crossing. The way people are using the roads here in Shenzhen made me worry that some day they’ll end up as roadkill, like these photos of an accident that occurred along Ayala Avenue in Makati, Philippines.
One thing that struck me after six months in Shenzhen is the inexplicable obsession with workflow by the locals. Everywhere you go, there is likely to be an established workflow for doing things: Register at counter A, wait for your turn at room B on level 3, pay at counter F on the ground floor,… Read More »
Once again, mainstream media are falling over themselves to parrot special interest group statistics. I’m referring to the annual study on software piracy published earlier this month by the Business Software Alliance, which alleged that piracy cost the software industry $48 billion last year, up by $8 billion from 2006. Instead of questioning the reliability… Read More »
Sharon Stone opened her legs a while back to give her sagging career a useless boost. Now she opens her mouth, and it turns out that it’s just as useless and filthy. The clueless has-been is suggesting that the Sichuan earthquake in China, which claimed tens of thousands of lives, was “karma” for not being… Read More »
No one expects western media to put a positive spin on China these days, but BusinessWeek is too obvious to find any story line (Blogging a Quake, Live from Chengdu) to stab at the Chinese government. What is shameful about the western response to the Sichuan earthquake tragedy is the politicization of it. China’s government… Read More »
The brouhaha over the Olympic torch relay isn’t about Tibet. Nor human rights. It’s about geopolitics. For an interesting take, read “Why Washington Plays ‘Tibet Roulette’ With China“. Related stuff: Turning China into a whipping boy Myth and Reality of Tibet Why do you hate us so much?