China Fact- Law in China- Lawyers Protected the State

It was not until 1996 that Chinese lawyers could look after the good of their clients rather than the state or China. To this day it is still skeptical if Chinese lawyers really can protect their clients in an unbridled fashion.

Two Chinese Men, One Dream

Two Chinese salesmen chasing that money….

Chinese Get a Reprieve from Purgatory- Chinese Exodus to Canada

Opps, what I meant to say was that Chinese were the largest nationality of foreigners to invade, I mean to becme permanent residents in Canada. China has been worried about this recently as many party members, and officials who have taken hundreds of millions out of the coffers of China have escaped to foreign countries with the bounty….

Angry Chinese Workers Humiliate Boss Into Paying them

Here is a story from Henan- China’s most populace province. Apparently these migrant workers, which in China means they are from another province, were upset with their boss for not paying them their wages due. So, being normal Chinese citizens, they realized that the only rational thing to do is to publicly humiliate him into paying them, or doing what was morally right. So, the Chinese guys tied up the boss and paraded him around the streets explaining he’d not paid his bills (about U$ 120 per person). A few observations -Chinese have been doing this form thousands of years, maybe its why they have little use for laws -the cultural revolution perfected this humiliation schema -living in China is like being in Hooterville, you just don’t know what will happen next excerpt chinadaily ” Three migrant workers demanded their overdue wage by tying up their labor contractor and parading him around on a street in Zhengzhou, capital of Central China’s Henan province on Sunday, the Dahe Daily reported Monday. The employer, surnamed Zhao, hired the three workers for 100 yuan ($14.77) a day but failed to pay them for nine days. “I got no salary, either. My boss informed us we would get paid yesterday afternoon, but he paid nothing and left us,” Zhao said.Out of anger, the workers tied Zhao’s wrists with wire and showed him in public to prevent him from running away, according to one of the salary demanders.”

Kazak Chinese Have Beautiful Hair Contest

These ladies are from the Muslim Xinjiang region of China. It is an area that has had much unrest as of late, and last year they had horrible riots. Here is a contest to see who of them has the best hair, mor maybe its just a way to get them all together and in the open so they cannot create a disturbance….. Women of the Kazak ethnic group show their hair during a competition in Altay, Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur. [Photo/CFP]

Cave Men in China- Photos of Chinese Who Still Live in Caves

These are cave homes, they are not popular in China, but still used. They are what you think, they are basically homes dug into the side of the mountain, a -la our ancestors from 10,ooo years ago… A man watches TV in his cave-style house in Ruicheng, North China’s Shanxi province, Aug 9, 2010. His wife has gone to care of their grandbaby in the suburban area, leaving the 72-year-old alone at home. For them, the traditional earthen caves are as comfortable as modern houses. [Photo/Asianewsphoto] Zhang Jinhu, 53, smokes while sitting by the door in Ruicheng, North China’s Shanxi province, Wang Decheng, 65, enjoys a smoke while sitting on the heatable adobe sleeping platform in Ruicheng, North China’s Shanxi province,

Chicoms to Create Internet Search Engine- What Can Those Sneaky Fellas Be Up To???

A few days ago the Times did an article about “Search Engine New Media International Communications Company”. Which is a venture set up by the chicoms, presumably to take advantage of China’s growing internet and cell phone users and make some cash. The article states how the ruling communist party can use this company and this platform to make cash reach people , yada yada. I think they are missing the bigger picture here. Lately the chicoms have set out to use ‘soft power’ and promote the new kinder gentler communist, not that mean old monster commie of old, but a friend, the kind of guy you can sit with, chat and have a cold one. Thus, by setting up this company and search engine, the Chicoms have unfettered access to their own people, as well as access to the rest of the world and think of all the young minds they can manipulate, I mean inform. Actually what I just said, is basically similar to what many have been thinking so I may have wasted my time and yours, so let me leave you with this. How about the notion that the chicoms are doing this for two reasons, that which I have already stated and also to hide more information from their people, but on a more subtle scale. For instance, China has Baidu, which is a Chinese website, but it is not directly controlled by he chicoms, so occasionally things will leak (like this memo which I cannot access because I live in China), but when things leak, they are quickly cleaned up and sanitized. But as stated, the websites are somewaht independent, at least momentarily. And China is afriad of this indegpendence. China has only had 500 years of peace over the last 2500 years, and one of their goals is to provide more TV and internet to their people, and thus they feel that unfettered access to information is a bad thing, its better to guard it like they do in the local xinhua state run media entity. For the chicoms also believe that if 900 000 000 people have daily access to information that now is closely guarded, it can mean some serious unrest in the middle kingdom. And unrest here, is a bad thing. Just imagine if those 900 000 000 people had the same access to information that you may have, what would they do with it? They may do good things like study and change their habits, or they may do bad. In the end we really dont know, but the chicoms are preparing for the worst, hoping for the best and going to put an iron fist up the bowels of the net, all in for the sake of preserving peace in the land. As China opens up and grows, it is faced with this problem of how to shield potentially harmful information (harmful to the party vz truth of corruption, pollution etc) from the masses such that they do not obtain it and do nasty things…..

Cave Men in China- Photos of Chinese Who Still Live in Caves

These are cave homes, they are not popular in China, but still used. They are what you think, they are basically homes dug into the side of the mountain, a -la our ancestors from 10,ooo years ago… A man watches TV in his cave-style house in Ruicheng, North China’s Shanxi province, Aug 9, 2010. His wife has gone to care of their grandbaby in the suburban area, leaving the 72-year-old alone at home. For them, the traditional earthen caves are as comfortable as modern houses. [Photo/Asianewsphoto] Zhang Jinhu, 53, smokes while sitting by the door in Ruicheng, North China’s Shanxi province, Wang Decheng, 65, enjoys a smoke while sitting on the heatable adobe sleeping platform in Ruicheng, North China’s Shanxi province,

Beware of Your ‘Friendly Neighborhood Chinese Doctor….- Chinese Doctor Allegedly Kills and Indian in the USA

After hearing about that Chinese student getting kicked out of the USA, and then the school killings by 40 year old Chinese guys, I started to hear more stories of such events from my friends back home. One person I know has a company and had to lay off several Chinese scientists, one of whom threatened his life. Others have had to let go Chinese doctors and scientists, almost all of whom have filed suits against their companies. This leads us to a guy named Dr. Wang. I blogged this before, but this guy Dr. Wang is Chinese but working in the USA. He was sacked for reasons unknown, but apparently was very aggressive with other staff and caused problems. Supposedly the Chinese guy Wang was told that he would not be fired if he took a mental disability leave (of course with us, the US taxpayers footing the bill) and he was labeled as excitable, and unable to control his anger. The guy was unemployed for two years and sued the hospital for discrimination of course and of course he didnt go home, i mean why would he… So he hung out in the States and then allegedly killed another doctor named Toor from India, with whom he’d had problems before ( read the excerpt below to see what the guy had with him when arrested). This really makes you wonder about the stability of that ‘friendly Chinese couple’ down the road…. excerpt: Police say Wang told them he had been accused of threatening Toor and poking him in the eye when they worked together at Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center in New York. A history of confrontations with Toor and other colleagues at Kingsbrook led to his dismissal two years ago. He also had a federal discrimination lawsuit pending against the hospital. Printouts on two other people directly involved in Wang’s dismissal and directions were found in Wang’s van when he was arrested shortly after the shooting, police said. The vehicle also had 1,000 rounds of ammunition, a wig, hammer and a knife, police said Tuesday”

Chinese Hospital Collapses- Poorly Made in China

Chinese quality is somewhat of an oxymoron, especially when it comes to buildings. The Chinese government reports that the typical building here lasts from 15 to 30 years and my Chinese friends are astounded to learn that in the US we have buildings that are still standing after 80 to 100 years. In China the land grab is on and there are little to no inspectors for the buildings so in each layer of building construction, corners are cut and quality suffers. The result is what you see below, a hospital that collapses less than two decades after it is constructed. But dont worry , they will build another one, irrespective of how many natural resources are wasted. The key is that some wealthy Chinese guy gets paid, and his contractors as well- oh yeah, dont forget corruption, there has to be a bit of that as well- allegedly. A combination photo shows the collapse of a building at Shanxi Provincial people’s Hospital on Shuangta East Street in Taiyuan, capital city of North China’s Shanxi province on August 12, 2010.[Photo/Xinhua]