political nonsense

Weathermen in China decided to fire rockets into the sky to try and disperse rain clouds, so it would be sunnier during the 2008 Olympics.

[bad for business]
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It was discovered that companies in China were using chopped cardboard, softened in an industrial chemical and made tasty with pork flavoring, as a main ingredient in batches of steamed buns.

[yummy]
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China executed a former director of its food and drug agency Tuesday for approving fake medicine in exchange for cash.
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George W. Bush and the Dalai Lama have the same birthday.
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Villagers in central China dug up a ton of dinosaur bones and ate them, believing they were from flying dragons and had healing powers.
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A motorcycle taxi driver in the Phillipines returned $17,000 dollars in lost money and got a $32 dollar reward.
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Shanghai drivers started using musical horns.
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North Korea said it will begin implementing a stalled agreement to scrap its nuclear program after receiving bank funds previously frozen because of U.S. concerns about money laundering.
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Thousands of South Korean farmers protested a pending trade deal with the US. “Free trade with the United States is like robbing our right to live,” they said.
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A Malaysian appeals court declared in a landmark ruling that mistresses have rights and should not be treated as mere chattel, news reports said Friday. Goh, a 73-year old businessman, met Heng, 56, almost 40 years ago and bought her a house in southern Johor state in 1980. Goh later demanded the house back after the relationship soured in 1988. “You squeezed her like a lemon and later cast her aside like an old shoe,” the judge said to Goh after overturning the high court’s decision.

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A prisoner who went missing from a jail in eastern India for almost 24 hours was found by prison guards snoring on the roof of the jail, officials said on Friday.
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China unveiled its first national plan for climate change.

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The government warned consumers on Friday to avoid using toothpaste made in China because it may contain a poisonous chemical used in antifreeze.

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India’s richest man decided to build a 60 story house, with six floors for parking.
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Japan called Thursday for the world to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, proposing a successor to the Kyoto Protocol it hopes will win over top offenders the United States and China.
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More than 800 Hong Kong residents have called on authorities to reclassify the Bible as “indecent” due to its sexual and violent content, following an uproar over a sex column in a university student journal. A spokesperson for Hong Kong’s Television and Entertainment Licensing authority (TELA) said it had received 838 complaints about the Bible by noon on Wednesday.
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Bangkok turned off the lights for 15 minutes to let people know what global warming will be like.
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China and Russia have denied claims by Amnesty International that they are supplying arms to Sudan for use in Darfur, in breach of a UN arms embargo.
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In a massive campaign that recalls the socialist engineering of an earlier era, the Chinese government has relocated some 250,000 Tibetans - nearly one-tenth of the population - from scattered rural hamlets to new “socialist villages,” ordering them to build new housing largely at their own expense and without their consent. The government calls the year-old project the “comfortable housing program.”
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China’s national state-run television networkbanned all images of pigs from advertisements to avoid offending Muslims.

[not cool]
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