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Huang Hung

Cocooned in my brand new digital world

Last Christmas, my friend Bessie gave me a Kindle. It took me several hours to trick the Amazon computer into believing I actually live in America.
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Huang Hung

A little bird tells us transparent governance is the new fad

In China people tweet on t.sina.com.cn and among the most avid tweeters is "Minister Wu". Yes, for real, he is a government official, but not quite ministerial ranking.
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Huang Hung

Huang Hung Column:How about a law to teach the use of the law?

As our legislative bodies prepare to meet, delegates are trying to put together new proposals to be passed. I want to contribute and here is what I think.
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Huang Hung

Time for a Gala of, by and for the people

People say I am an elitist because I never watch the CCTV Spring Festival Gala - otherwise known as Chunwan.
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Yang Lan

Worker ants labor to become queens

A new term was coined last year to describe the lives of a new generation of college graduates who have journeyed to Beijing in search of opportunities.
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Huang Hung

Chinese art of reveling in another's pain

I have always been a fan of Zhang Ziyi. She is beautiful, hardworking and talented. However, her reputation has been tarnished by a series of scandals which has unraveled in the public eye in the past six weeks.
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Yang Lan

Yao head and shoulders above the rest

The word is out: Yao Ming is to have a baby girl. And China's "Queen of Talk" Yang Lan is the first to tell.
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Huang Hung

It's all about business, stupid

So, I hope you have heard by now that sending dirty jokes by text message is going to cost you from now on. How much? you ask. Well, that depends on where you live.
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Huang Hung

Lessons from Pandora's Ministry of Propaganda

It was truly a case of, "I came, I WAS seen, and I conquered". The lines of people waiting outside Chinese cinemas to see Avatar were amazing.
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Huang Hung

Dear laowai, don't mess with our Chinese-ness

Now, listen up, you foreigner boys and girls, Chinese New Year is around the corner and I want to talk to you seriously about fireworks.
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Huang Hung

A little something for big dividends

Years ago, my mother hired someone to tend to the heating in her courtyard house. I went home to visit her, and found her huddled in an armchair with an electric blanket.
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Huang Hung

Christmas with Chinese characteristics

We can turn anything, holy or unholy, into something just Chinese.
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Huang Hung

Mo is no Mo'

The Mighty seemed to have fallen in December 2009. The release of Zhang Yimo's latest picture has caused a serious wave of Mo trashing on the Internet. As one netizen put it on Sina's twitter: "Mo is no Mo'."
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