Not all are in favor of the death penalty. Violence should have serious consequences, and the punishment should reflect the crime. See here how Arkansas handled the issue.
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As I mentioned in earlier postings, some of the most interesting market charts on the SCMP website were gone. Being of a very suspicious nature, I wondered why.
Finally the SCMP answered (thanks!) my question on 4 December:
Dear Mr. Van Kerckhove,
Thank you for your E-mail and support to South China Morning Post.
Sorry for my late reply, and very sorry for the service interruption.
Reuters is our data provider for the Charts, and our I. T. found that their data came in last weeks is not stable and have errors. So, we were not able to upload the data to our web. Starting from yesterday, the Reuters should have made some adjustment, and the chart of Shanghai and Shenzhen index should be back to normal.
For the 1 mth, 3mths, 1yr and 2 yrs of the SZSE A SHARE IDX still have some problem, and we have chased Reuters to fix it ASAP.
Should you have any question, please kindly e-mail us again.
Best Regards,
John Tai
Customer Relationship Team, Subscription
South China Morning Post Publishers Ltd.
The Chinese media were not exactly transparent about the visit of President Obama to China. But one aspect made waves in the media: Obama stepping down from his plane.
Why? The press saw someone descending the stairs holding an umbrella. They waited for the “President” to follow. Then they realized the supposed “staff” was the President himself.
The media - like here China Daily - focused on the fact a Chinese leader would never do something like that. Those big shots are always surrounded by hordes of aides to make sure the great leader is well taken care of.
Irony in China Daily. Not every day.
Scientists have now completed a study to compare the brains of women and men.
See here how the brain of a woman looks like - complicated as expected:
click to enlarge
Now here is the brain of a man. No surprises here. And so much more simple.
if you really want, click to enlarge
Thanks to Michael Wester I discovered this site:
http://www.amfic.eu/index.php
And their “air quality bulletin” - you can select Location, etc.
http://www.amfic.eu/bulletin/index.php
Seems they have terrific information on air quality. I will need to keep a close eye.
Another one I will explore further but looks interesting:
www.myhealthbeijing.com (by Richard Saint Cyr)
I will need to study those and fine-tune my overviews on Beijing pollution.