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China's leader Hu Jintao recently started microblogging. His microblog on People's Daily's microblogging site gained over 14,000 followers since it was setup yesterday. For comparison, the next most popular microblog on People's Daily has about 2,500 followers.

From a Tom.com article published on Feb 22 (Chinese):

"Yesterday, a new special name appeared on the "People's Microblog" which was launched this month - the country's chairman, Hu Jintao." Read more...

A law has been drafted that may see the eating of dog and cat meat made illegal in China. Support this? Disagree? Comment below.

See the original article (Chinese).

The January 2010 “Statistical Survey Report on Internet Development in China” was recently published. The report itself is 90 pages long, but here's what I think you might find most interesting... Read more...

Since starting this blog, I've mostly posted random items that happened to interest me. From now on I'm going to be focusing a lot more on Chinese-English translation and localization.

Since the blog will be focused, it would be best to just have one RSS feed, so the RSS feed will now be at http://www.east-west-connect.com/rss.xml.

This is a translation of parts of the summary of The 24^th CNNIC Report - Statistical Survey Report on Internet Development in China (original Chinese article here) For more information, check back here soon. I'll also probably post a translated version of the full report within a month.
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Canadian Governor-General Michaelle Jean recently made news for eating a raw seal heart.  Below are some responses translated from China from these Xinhua articles (link1, link2).  Read more...

QQ recently reported about Ding Hui, the first "black" player on a national team.  The story is in Chinese but has pictures.  The first two paragaraphs are translated as follows: Read more...