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A project that leaves thousands of people homeless...
This Xinhua file photo taken in December 2004 shows the aerial view of the Three Gorges Dam in Yichang, central China's Hubei Province. The axis of the dam is 2,309 meters, the longest in the world. The construction crews expect to finish pouring concrete for the massive Three Gorges Dam on Saturday, completing what China calls the world's largest concrete structure, state media reported Friday, May 19, 2006. (AP Photo / Xinhua, Du Huaju)
Looks like lots of Americans do know about Chairman Mao...Chinese society has changed radically with unbelievable speed, but...
A dog owner feeds her Yorkshire Terrier at the Coolbaby dog restaurant in Beijing May 20, 2006. The newly opened dog theme park, the first in China's capital, has a playground, a swimming pool, obstacle courses, and also a restaurant specially designed for pets. Not only can pets have meals together with their owners, but the recipes offered are based on nutritional science and tailored for dogs of different breeds, ages and sizes. Raising dogs was banned under the rule of late Chinese leader Mao Zedong as a bourgeois pastime and was only made legal a few years ago once living standards rose with the economy. According to the Chinese lunar calendar, 2006 is the year of the dog. REUTERS/Claro Cortes IV
The World Cup is now just a week away!!!
Young Thai prostitutes stand in front of a bar waiting for customers in Bangkok's downtown redlight district. A rights group has warned Thai sex workers against going to Germany during the World Cup, saying they could be subject to "all kinds of abuse," a report has said.(AFP/File/Stephen Shaver)
Porn star or AVN? Being sexy is sometimes better than not but sometimes is really disturbing, especially for someone who always looks sexy...
Chinese actress Bai Ling arrives for the screening of the film 'Southland Tales,' at the 59th International film festival in Cannes, southern France, on Sunday, May 21, 2006. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
Fact is that hundreds of species disappear on the very earth we are living in.
A newborn Egyptian Tortoise sits on the finger of its keeper at Chester Zoo in north west England May 23, 2006. The zoo has hatched six of the Testudo Kleinmanni tortoises which are currently on the critically endangered list. REUTERS/Phil Noble
Another Shanghai story.
An art installation, made of thousands of pairs of jeans, is displayed in Shanghai May 24, 2006. The installation has a diameter of about 5 m (16 feet). Picture taken May 24, 2006. CHINA OUT REUTERS/China Daily
People don't like complicated movies...
A copy of the Mona Lisa made from hundreds of computer parts is displayed at a high tech exhibition in Beijing, Thursday May 25, 2006. The work is titled Technology Smiling. Images of the Mona Lisa, by Leonardo da Vinci (1479-1528), have been seen around the world in recent days in promotions for the movie 'The Da Vinci Code'. (AP Photo/EyePress)
Want to know more about Nazi's Concentration Camp? GO watching "Band of Brothers" episode 9 "why we fight".
A rainbow is seen during the visit of Pope Benedict XVI to the Nazi Concentration Camp of Birkenau, in Oswiecim. German-born Pope Benedict XVI visited the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, meeting former inmates of the "abyss of terror" and reciting a prayer of reconciliation in his native tongue on the last day of a visit to Poland.(AFP/Alberto Pizzoli)
Taiwan's politics...but may be better than the mainland's.
Taiwan's ruling Democratic Progressive Party Lawmaker Wang Shu-hui chews on a proposal on opening direct transport links with China in Taipei on Tuesday, May 30 2006. (Stringer/Reuters)
What about obesity?
Graphic shows selected results of joint health study in the U.S. and Canada. (AP Graphic)
Give me a KISS! :o)
An orangutan stays in a cage at a wildlife protection centre in Ratchaburi province, about 125 km (78 miles) west of Bangkok May 30, 2006. Indonesian officials told Reuters that they expected to get those healthy apes back by first week of July since the 53 endangered orangutans were seized two years ago at a private Bangkok zoo. Thai officials say five out of 53 orangutans have been borrowed by the Chiang Mai Night Safari. REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom
As big as...this??...
A participant blows up a condom as others look on during a condom-blowing contest held in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality May 28, 2006. The contest, which aims at establishing people's knowledge of safe sex, attracted many local residents. A university student won the contest by bursting a condom within one minute, China Daily reported. Picture taken May 28, 2006. CHINA OUT REUTERS/China Daily
OH, MY!!!
A doctor inspects a 59-day-old baby boy who was born with three arms, at a hospital in Shanghai, in east China Monday, May 29, 2006. Doctors are checking the boys physical condition before deciding whether to remove his third arm. (AP Photo)
Is this movie or reality?? hydrocephalus???
Sufi waits with her 6-month-old son Eshap Sekh, suffering from hydrocephalus, at a hospital in Calcutta, India, Tuesday, May 30, 2006. Agitating anti-reservation medicos decided to continue their strike despite an appeal by India's Supreme Court to call off their fortnight-long stir, as people from the different walks of life joined in support. (AP Photo/Sucheta Das)
I'm living just near The Yangtze River, but the pollution in China...sigh again...
A woman waits to cross the Yangtze river, in Yichang, Hubei province. China's famed Yangtze river is turning "cancerous" due to increasing pollution, putting at risk the drinking water for Shanghai and many other cities along its banks(AFP/File/Goh Chai Hin)
This Xinhua file photo taken in December 2004 shows the aerial view of the Three Gorges Dam in Yichang, central China's Hubei Province. The axis of the dam is 2,309 meters, the longest in the world. The construction crews expect to finish pouring concrete for the massive Three Gorges Dam on Saturday, completing what China calls the world's largest concrete structure, state media reported Friday, May 19, 2006. (AP Photo / Xinhua, Du Huaju)
Looks like lots of Americans do know about Chairman Mao...Chinese society has changed radically with unbelievable speed, but...
A dog owner feeds her Yorkshire Terrier at the Coolbaby dog restaurant in Beijing May 20, 2006. The newly opened dog theme park, the first in China's capital, has a playground, a swimming pool, obstacle courses, and also a restaurant specially designed for pets. Not only can pets have meals together with their owners, but the recipes offered are based on nutritional science and tailored for dogs of different breeds, ages and sizes. Raising dogs was banned under the rule of late Chinese leader Mao Zedong as a bourgeois pastime and was only made legal a few years ago once living standards rose with the economy. According to the Chinese lunar calendar, 2006 is the year of the dog. REUTERS/Claro Cortes IV
The World Cup is now just a week away!!!
Young Thai prostitutes stand in front of a bar waiting for customers in Bangkok's downtown redlight district. A rights group has warned Thai sex workers against going to Germany during the World Cup, saying they could be subject to "all kinds of abuse," a report has said.(AFP/File/Stephen Shaver)
Porn star or AVN? Being sexy is sometimes better than not but sometimes is really disturbing, especially for someone who always looks sexy...
Chinese actress Bai Ling arrives for the screening of the film 'Southland Tales,' at the 59th International film festival in Cannes, southern France, on Sunday, May 21, 2006. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
Fact is that hundreds of species disappear on the very earth we are living in.
A newborn Egyptian Tortoise sits on the finger of its keeper at Chester Zoo in north west England May 23, 2006. The zoo has hatched six of the Testudo Kleinmanni tortoises which are currently on the critically endangered list. REUTERS/Phil Noble
Another Shanghai story.
An art installation, made of thousands of pairs of jeans, is displayed in Shanghai May 24, 2006. The installation has a diameter of about 5 m (16 feet). Picture taken May 24, 2006. CHINA OUT REUTERS/China Daily
People don't like complicated movies...
A copy of the Mona Lisa made from hundreds of computer parts is displayed at a high tech exhibition in Beijing, Thursday May 25, 2006. The work is titled Technology Smiling. Images of the Mona Lisa, by Leonardo da Vinci (1479-1528), have been seen around the world in recent days in promotions for the movie 'The Da Vinci Code'. (AP Photo/EyePress)
Want to know more about Nazi's Concentration Camp? GO watching "Band of Brothers" episode 9 "why we fight".
A rainbow is seen during the visit of Pope Benedict XVI to the Nazi Concentration Camp of Birkenau, in Oswiecim. German-born Pope Benedict XVI visited the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, meeting former inmates of the "abyss of terror" and reciting a prayer of reconciliation in his native tongue on the last day of a visit to Poland.(AFP/Alberto Pizzoli)
Taiwan's politics...but may be better than the mainland's.
Taiwan's ruling Democratic Progressive Party Lawmaker Wang Shu-hui chews on a proposal on opening direct transport links with China in Taipei on Tuesday, May 30 2006. (Stringer/Reuters)
What about obesity?
Graphic shows selected results of joint health study in the U.S. and Canada. (AP Graphic)
Give me a KISS! :o)
An orangutan stays in a cage at a wildlife protection centre in Ratchaburi province, about 125 km (78 miles) west of Bangkok May 30, 2006. Indonesian officials told Reuters that they expected to get those healthy apes back by first week of July since the 53 endangered orangutans were seized two years ago at a private Bangkok zoo. Thai officials say five out of 53 orangutans have been borrowed by the Chiang Mai Night Safari. REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom
As big as...this??...
A participant blows up a condom as others look on during a condom-blowing contest held in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality May 28, 2006. The contest, which aims at establishing people's knowledge of safe sex, attracted many local residents. A university student won the contest by bursting a condom within one minute, China Daily reported. Picture taken May 28, 2006. CHINA OUT REUTERS/China Daily
OH, MY!!!
A doctor inspects a 59-day-old baby boy who was born with three arms, at a hospital in Shanghai, in east China Monday, May 29, 2006. Doctors are checking the boys physical condition before deciding whether to remove his third arm. (AP Photo)
Is this movie or reality?? hydrocephalus???
Sufi waits with her 6-month-old son Eshap Sekh, suffering from hydrocephalus, at a hospital in Calcutta, India, Tuesday, May 30, 2006. Agitating anti-reservation medicos decided to continue their strike despite an appeal by India's Supreme Court to call off their fortnight-long stir, as people from the different walks of life joined in support. (AP Photo/Sucheta Das)
I'm living just near The Yangtze River, but the pollution in China...sigh again...
A woman waits to cross the Yangtze river, in Yichang, Hubei province. China's famed Yangtze river is turning "cancerous" due to increasing pollution, putting at risk the drinking water for Shanghai and many other cities along its banks(AFP/File/Goh Chai Hin)
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