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July 07, 2005

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Daily linklets 7th July

Move over Kung Fu Hussle, here comes Snow White Hussle.
Smile, you're on Commie camera (via ESWN, who's got a photo montage example)
Experts who support China's currency position. But China's currency controls are hitting one group hard: private equity funds.
The CNOOC bid for Unocal is creating odd bedfellows in America. Tom Plate comments on America's China shock.
China's asset management companies, created to deal with the bad loan problems of the banks, are becoming a liability.
Where gluttony meets sport. Why not add it to the 2012 Olympics...perhaps because as Pete says: anything you can do as well or better while drunk is not a sport, and binge eating certainly falls into that category (as do bowling, darts, billiards, cards, dogsled racing, and golf).
While on things Olympic, you'll get very generous odds on Taiwan 2020.
Singapore's blogging convention, Bloggers.SG 2005, is being held next weekend. Somehow they got Microsoft to buy them drinks.
Richard is having doubts about Jung Chang's new Mao biography and its seeming contradictions with her earlier Wild Swans.
A ringtone to blow you away, so to speak.
Making a documentary and dealing with officialdom in China.
An analysis of what China wanted the world (via CNN) to know pre- and post- 1989.
Exclusive leaked Kunming guidelines from the Mekong River basin meeting of leaders last week. And here's a report from that Greater Mekong sub-region summit.
Nathan says only China takes the SCO seriously.
Progress and setbacks in SE Asia's war on terror.
(13:32) Dan has the results of a study saying circumcision helps lower new HIV infection rates. He's got some interesting thoughts on the back of it.
Chinese cinema's Chairman Mao just died.
Wondering how you're going to get around downtown Pyongyang? Why the Pyongyang Metro website, of course (via JP).
(16:47) This is brilliant: An Indian city gets through 600,000 free condoms a day, but only a quarter are used for sex. Find out what the others are for.

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