This is a daily collection of links, some with commentary, to news stories and interesting blog posts. It will be updated throughout the day with a new timestamp for the updates.

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• Racist Russians rile against a Chinese property development in St Petersburg.
• The bald facts: the SCMP reports a survey has found 60% of men would give up two years of life in return for a full head of hair. It found 57% would pay HK$100,000 or more for hair-loss treatment! But help is at hand. The first prize, won by Koji Tanaka, in a Japanese contest for the finest head of new/regrown hair was HK$216,000. Mr Tanaka was considering using the money to buy more treatments.
• Cambodia is privatising the Killing Fields.
• Check out Panda Cam (via Horses Mouth)
• Australian Wenhao Zhao was arrested yesterday outside Washington's Capitol building. He had two suitcases with him and had asked to see President Bush. The suitcases contained a CD player and some music. Clearly he thought the President needed help with his playlist.
• The Hong Kong Jockey Club may have snagged the equestrian events for Hong Kong in the 2008 Olympics. Will they also employ robot jockeys?
• Generation Y and religion in the USA.
• Six questions on China's real estate bubble - it would be great if the rest of the article was translated.
• Wretchard examines the idea of "out of the blue" attack by China on Taiwan, following the Strategy Page report I discussed, along with some silly comments on it, last week. Wretchard's conclusion:

  Ironically, the bigger the Chinese economy becomes, the more vulnerable it grows to US countermeasures. And because any US-Chinese confrontation would be economically catastrophic for both countries, and to Japan and South Korea besides, Taiwan's real guarantee against invasion is that it is a poisoned pawn. It would cost China everything it worked for in the last two decades to swallow.

  I couldn't agree more.
• The Commisar brings the Carnival of the Coward, a continuing expose of Paul from Wizbang. Also check out Michele's thoughts on something I've often said - extremism outweighs moderation in the blogging world (not to mention the echo chamber the encourages extremism). Zombyboy is also hankering for a return to blogging's better days. There seems to be a growing groundswell of readership and bloggers looking for a return to moderation (perhaps a reflection of post-election politics), or is it just nostalgia? I hope the former but fear it's the latter.
• (14:23) Did China ban the teaching of Bayesian probability? Responses from other students as well.
• Thomas Barnett looks at China's military build-up, the Robert Zoellick negotiations and the emerging India-China axis.