Sinosphere Saturday

Since we're already late, let's crack on...

Epic civil engineering fail

There’s an extensive campaign going on against Google in China, on the pretext of a porn clampdown. Black and White Cat has the details. Reading between the lines my guess is that this is intended that punters in China can only access porn through its local, and very well connected, rival Baidu.

You’ll remember the famous “no dogs and Chinese” sign outside a park in Shanghai during colonial times. A shopping centre in Changchun is now disgraced with a “no dogs and peasants” sign.

Zhang confessed that Noberts had brought the drugs into China to supply lower-tier drug dealers. According to the report, this is the first case in Dongguan in which a foreigner was sentenced to death.

 

I sailed with a Chinese pirate queen

Excellent, tonight I will drink! Some Chinese responses to the death of you know who.

MGI reported in Guangkou town, Guangzhou province. Some photos, no details yet.

A quick trip round a temple in Lhasa:

...they maximize the number of batches a day by herding the visitors like sheep. In front every Buddha or bone-pagoda is not a lama but a fellow wearing a wide-brim hat, who shouts non-stop "Hurry, move! Don't pause!" And the crowds follow the order obediently as if in a spell; whether you are old or young, whether you are a foreigner or Chinese, you must move with a speed that can't even be called "looking at flowers on a running horse." In less than an hour, you finish a tour that would normally need the better part of day.

And finally, smut sells in Singapore:

This is not the first time that a Burger King ad was cited for its use of sexual themes. There was the square butts ad to promote kiddie meals, an ad urging the customer to “pleasure yourself“, a shirtless BK King, and an ad naming a product after a slang term for a photo of a vagina.