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Beijing Olympics Advice from ex-CNN journalist

http://www.youtube.com

Thomas Crampton interviews ex-CNN Beijing bureau chief and the driving force behind Global Voices Online, Rebecca MacKinnon, about advice she has for journalists coming to China during the Beijing Olympics. Her advice echos loudly for other visitors or long-term residents as well.

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Renouncing Citizenship Is About To Get A Lot More Expensive!

http://www.economist.com

Expatriates surrendering their citizenship will have to act as if they have sold all their worldwide assets at a fair market price. If the unrealized gains on these assets exceed $600,000, capital-gains tax will apply. Along with citizens of North Korea and a few other countries, Americans are taxed based on their citizenship, rather than domicile.

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Algae outbreak at Chaohu Lake - Here we go again |

http://haumau.org

As the weather gets warmer here in Shanghai, in another region of China, Hefei, Anhui Province, where’s China’s fifth largest lake, Chaohu Lake resides, a blue green algae outbreak was discovered, affecting at least 320,000 people who depends on it as a water source. The outbreak is caused by a rise in temperature, allowing algae growth to take place. Of course, some required chemical reagents like ammonia and nitrogen must have existed in plentiful amounts before this kind of algae can take place.

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Multiple Entry Chinese Visas Being Canceled at Border?

http://www.allroadsleadtochina.com

When they arrived into the Guangzhou station from the HK Train, they were told that their visa would have to be canceled and they would be on their last 30 day stay and they would have to go back home to get an extension or a new visa!

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Why China cracked down on my nonprofit

http://www.csmonitor.com

Nick Young shares the story of how his non-profit newsletter, China Development Brief, permanently ended his ability to enter China - after 12 years of living here and showing great respect and well-rounded attitude towards the country. Obviously it was time to kick him out.

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International Youth Hostel in Dalian does not allow foreigners

http://www.pandapassport.com

Dalian's "International" Youth Hostel is not living up to its name and is denying access to foreigners. Racially spurred or just a silly law in regards to it being located on a navy vessel... we may never know. Apparently it's crap anyway - still, an interesting thing to find in as modern a city as Dalian.

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Sending packages home? Leave out the DVDs

http://www.lostlaowai.com

Developed a huge movie collection since moving to China? Troubled about how to get them all home? Well, beware: the Motion Picture Association of America has recently deployed two keen-nosed dogs to sniff out pirate DVDs.

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How to say "no" to a blogging journalist

http://news.imagethief.com

Imagethief warns PR practitioners about the hazards of not inviting blogging journalists to press conferences, citing Ogilvy's snub of Tim Johnson as an example.

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Scandal brews over China tea-for-urine samples

http://news.yahoo.com

BEIJING (Reuters) - A group of Chinese reporters came up with a novel idea to test how greedy local hospitals were -- pass off tea as urine samples and submit the drink for tests.

The results: six out of 10 hospitals in Hangzhou, the capital of the rich coastal province of Zhejiang, visited by the reporters over a two-day period this month concluded that the patients' urinal tracts were infected.

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Darren Russell Remembered

http://onemanbandwidth.com

An American, a teacher displaced by an unethical recruiter in Guangzhou, China needlessly lost his life here two years ago.
A video clip fromj the Geraldo Rivera Show...

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Scary Police in China

http://www.thechinaexpat.com

What would you do in this situation?

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Problems in a Perfect Beijing Apartment

http://www.danwei.org

From Danwei, "Dealing with high prices, sketchy rental agents, flaky landlords, and annoying neighbors can make renting an apartment in Beijing a painful ordeal. Here is one horror story..."

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Marco Polo Syndrome

http://www.sinosplice.com

As "The Laowai Death Stare" is having so much success in the hao!hao! report, I thought we could draw some attention on another post on the same subject and that i find even more funny (and interesting!).
Learn about the "Marco Polo Syndrome"!

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Excitement blamed for 3 deaths in China

http://news.yahoo.com

Excited to the point of death? Over soccer, er, "football?" Whoa.

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