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With nothing else newsworthy anywhere else in the country, Xinhua appears to have dispatched its entire workforce to Beijing to crank out articles like this, this, this, this, this, this and this about the 两会. This has made NewsinChinese possibly the most boring site on the Internet. Great reading for those looking to polish […]

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I don’t run many regression analyses these days, but the economist in me can’t help but feel a sense of schadenfreude at the recent economic troubles in the West. I think this is mostly because the problems with subprime loans and the housing market have been fairly obvious since 2005 and there’s no excuse for […]

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Now that the Beijing Olympic Committee has finished cracking down on non-licensed fuwa, maybe they can send a team over to Sohu.com to break some kneecaps. The mega-portal appears to have been caught with its pants down stealing flash games from independent (read: poorer than BOCOG members) games designers:
Here’s the story more-or-less in full from […]

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Bizarre entries from the Linguistic Data Consortium still surface every now-and-then like sea creatures from the deep. The latest I noticed was a surprising definition for 深入研究. The dictionary had it as “lucubrate”, which WordNet defines as “to elaborate on”.
True to form, both Dict.cn and Kingsoft appear to have copied the entry wholesale without lucubrating […]

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