China Unicom has justinked a deal that’ll grant it exclusive rights to sell Apple’s  smartphone in mainland China for three whole years. Unfortunately, most of the  details are absent. The “Wo” icon you see just below the speaker signifies that this here device is ready to rock on the carrier’s 3G network, though we still can’t say with any amount of certainty if said image is fully legitimate. We’re also waiting to hear whether it’ll be the iPhone 3G or 3GS (or both) that’s sold, and we’re particular curious as to whether or not these handsets will include WiFi modules.

In related news, it does sound as if China Unicom bent over backwards a bit to make this all come together, with the article stating that it signed on to move between one and two million units per year regardless of how many consumers actually show up to buy one.  At any rate, it’s noted that Unicom will be snapping up the devices from Apple at a cost of around 3,000 Chinese yuan a piece ($440), with end users being asked to pay an undisclosed lesser amount on contract. If all goes well, the units could hit Chinese stores as early as September, though only time will tell how everything shakes out.

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Who is the guy in the picture? He’s one of the most famous Yantaier…well…in a disgrace way.  He sexual harassed on a 12 years old girl. You might think its pretty normal in the modern society but this guy was caught on camera and it provoked the public. He then quickly became “famous” on the internet because of “Renrou Sousuo”.

“Renrou sousuo,” which literally translates as “human flesh search,” is an Internet search engine different from Google or its Chinese equivalent, Baidu. It mobilizes a multitude of Internet users – the number could be as high as thousands – to find and expose information about someone on the Web. It originated from Mop.com, an interactive entertainment Web site, where users gain respect from the online community through answering questions or providing information to those who seek help.

The “human flesh search” became popular in 2006, when video of a woman stabbing a kitten in the eyes with her high heels and crushing its head appeared on a Chinese Web site. Angered Chinese Internet users analyzed the background of the video and located the place of the incident. In less than a week, every detail of this woman’s life – including her real name, age, address and marital status (divorced), among other information – was posted on the Internet. She ended up being suspended from her position.

In April 2008, Grace Wang, a Chinese student at Duke University in the United States, wrote “Free Tibet” on the back of a supporter of the Tibetan cause. Although she insisted that she had been trying to act as a mediator and had only written the slogan to make the student agree to talk to pro-China demonstrators also gathered on campus, as soon as the image appeared online, Wang not only was accused of being a “traitor to the motherland” but also became one of the latest targets of the “human flesh search.” Her personal information was disclosed as well as that of her parents, who had to go into hiding in China.

Apparently, the widespread usage of “human flesh searches” has become controversial. Some claim that because China’s laws are imperfect, “human flesh searches” could become a way to seek justice; in fact, the Internet has been playing a positive role in exposing fraud and corruption, especially those committed by Communist party cadres.

Others fear that “human flesh searches” could turn the Internet into a “wild West,” where no regulations govern netizens’ behavior and individuals’ privacy could be seriously violated, reminding some of the bitter experiences of the Cultural Revolution, between 1966 and 1976, when people who were denounced were attacked and abused physically and psychologically. According to a recent survey by the China Youth Daily, 20 percent feared that they could become a victim of the online lynch mobs. It remains to be seen which direction “human flesh searches” will go.

Whatever you do, just dont enrage the general public or you will…

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Ottawa, Canada – Researchers say they have located the world’s oldest stash of marijuana, in a tomb in a remote part of China.

The cache of cannabis is about 2,700 years old and was clearly cultivated for psychoactive purposes,” rather than as fibre for clothing or as food, says a research paper in the Journal of Experimental Botany.

The 789 grams of dried cannabis was buried alongside a light-haired, blue-eyed Caucasian man, likely a shaman of the Gushi culture, near Turpan in northwestern China.

The extremely dry conditions and alkaline soil acted as preservatives, allowing a team of scientists to carefully analyze the stash, which still looked green though it had lost its distinctive odour.

“To our knowledge, these investigations provide the oldest documentation of cannabis as a pharmacologically active agent,” says the newly published paper, whose lead author was American neurologist Dr. Ethan B. Russo.

Remnants of cannabis have been found in ancient Egypt and other sites, and the substance has been referred to by authors such as the Greek historian Herodotus. But the tomb stash is the oldest so far that could be thoroughly tested for its properties.

The 18 researchers, most of them based in China, subjected the cannabis to a battery of tests, including carbon dating and genetic analysis. Scientists also tried to germinate 100 of the seeds found in the cache, without success.

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You Found Me – The Fray

As a big fan of Lost, this video really gets me excited. One of the best feature of Lost is that it keeps giving you clues and makes you wonder. What does 4 8 15 16 23 42 mean? What is the black smoke? Where did the island go? The show will on air January 22th, 2009

It will probably take me hours to find out what actually behind the scene of this video.

Anyone here is a Lost fan?