Links for Thursday

Google Earth pic of Shangba, picked up by CDT

Decided to have a bit of a lazy day, but interesting stories kept on hindering me. So, I will have you some links in stead of writing it all up:

• Shangba, China's village of death. People in a Guangdong village got concerned as almost everybody dies of cancer.
• Paul French on the importance of boring logistics.
• China's internet censorship system goes to court.
• Fighting organized crime with Chinese characteristics.
• Propaganda or journalism? CCTV-9's anchor man under fire.
• What happens when you protest against labor camps? You get into one yourself.
• More on China's mental firewall, coined by Isaac Mao. (Isaac is also a member of my Chinabiz Speakers' Bureau)
• More hacker' attacks from China, experts say, although they do not accuse the government or the PLA directly anymore.
  
• CDT translates a remarkable story where the city of Jiaxing forces companies buy or trade quota to limit pollution.

Just keeping up with the news from China can easily become a day job, if somebody was willing to pay for that.