Police shut down what would have been China’s first gay pageant an hour before it was set to begin, telling the organizers they did not have the necessary permit to conduct this kind of event. Benjamin Zhang, the founder of Gayographic, Beijing’s only gay PR and event-management company and the organizer of the pageant, said [...]
The announced sale of advanced Patriot air defense missiles to Taiwan by Lockheed Martin, an advanced American technology company with worldwide interests, has caused a stir in China’s capital Beijing which considers Taiwan a breakaway province and does not recognize it as a sovereign nation. “China firmly opposes and is strongly dissatisfied with arms sales [...]
Morgan Stanley economists say that in China, garlic is currently the country’s best performing asset, outstripping gold and stocks. The price of garlic has nearly gone up fourfold since March. The reason given for the price appreciation of this pungent bulb is because the Chinese strongly believe that it can ward off the H1N1 swine [...]
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