Monday, April 20, 2009

In the News in China

Jackie Chan stirred up a lot of controversy in China this past week. Of course, most Chinese probably never heard anything. I think this blog writer said it all best in his post:


There also has been a lot of publicity (internationally anyway) about kidnapping of boys in China. It seems to have prompted by the desire for boys in a family, but causing some families to resort to kidnapping for a boy to avert the strict "one child" policy. Two reports:

From NBC News:

And from recent activities in China to publicize the situation:

Some encouraging news, albeit only that is is not as bad as a month earlier:

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