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China Daily Show: Why I’m leaving China: We need to talk. About us.

China Daily Show :: So you’ve finally decided to break up with China. You’ll probably want to write a blog post or newspaper article about it, then. Too busy packing? Here’s our handy delete-as-necessary CDS guide to posing that crucial ‘Dear Zhang’ piece!

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'My kidney for an iPad': Trial opens in China

Tech In Asia :: Remember that dismal story of the young Chinese man who sold his kidney to buy an iPad last year? Justice is now close to being served, with the trial underway of five people who were arrested in April this year.

A report by Steven Millward, www.techinasia.com

China's IM chat service Xiaomi hits 1m concurrent online users

The Next Web :: Miliao, the group chat service from up-and-coming Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi, passed a new milestone on Wednesday when it achieved 1 million simultaneous online users.

[Josh Ong:] Mobile messaging apps have seen rapid adoption in Asia and are blurring the lines between full-feature social networking services as they add features.

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A report by Josh Ong, thenextweb.com

Xiaomi acquires team behind MSNLite: To build an Apple Facetime rival?

Tech In Asia :: The makers of China’s hottest homegrown smartphone, Xiaomi, has made a curious acquisition in the form of the team behind the third-party messaging app MSNLite. The financial details of the deal haven’t been revealed, but Xiaomi’s co-founder, Huang Jiangji has confirmed that it has occurred, and described the Microsoft MSN clone as the best MSN client software.

A report by Steven Millward, www.techinasia.com

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China’s Joome is a “Social Router” that wants to spread free Wi-Fi love

Tech In Asia :: The Chinese startup Joome, co-founded by Issac Mao (毛向輝), is as much a movement as a service, aiming to create a platform for people to open up their wifi hotspots to users, for free, and for no financial return.

A report by Steven Millward, www.techinasia.com

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Sharism a mind revolution - Issaa Mao

Removing negative reviews: Baidu staff delete posts for cash

Global Times :: Three employees from Baidu, China's largest search engine, have been arrested for being paid to delete online posts on its website, the company confirmed Sunday. The three were suspected of colluding with external partners to delete online messages. Another employee was also fired for attempting to delete posts for cash, but not arrested.

A report by Deng Jingyin, www.globaltimes.cn

HT: Josh Ong, The Next Web

Sina Weibo: A digital megaphone to more than 300 million Chinese

Associated Press | Tech Wire Asia :: China’s Twitter was raucous Thursday with horn-tooting over Beijing’s gold rush at the London Olympics, a digital reflection of the nation’s exuberant mood — embellished with flashing emoticons. Earlier passions have been ignited on the site by a deadly high speed rail crash and outrage over factory pollution.

A report by AP, www.techwireasia.com

China keeps up block on Bloomberg website

CNN :: Bloomberg's news website remains blocked by China's state censors a full month after it detailed the riches amassed by the family of Xi Jinping, the man who is expected to be the country's next president. Although periodic outages of foreign media websites in China are common, the month-long total blackout of Bloomberg is an unusually harsh response.

A report by Simon Rabinovitch, FT.com, edition.cnn.com

In Olympics outburst: Chinese celeb posts personal info of US swim official on Weibo

Tech In Asia :: Ah, the Olympics. Uniting nations in mutual distrust and nationalist, self-righteous anger for over a century. And so it came to pass this morning that one of China’s leading tech luminaries, Li Kaifu – former Google China head – posted a small graphic to his 15 million Sina Weibo followers containing personal info about John Leonard, the US swim official who first voiced doubts about the gold medal performance of Chinese swimmer Ye Shiwen.

A report by Steven Millward, www.techinasia.com

Through the lense of social media: The horrible truth about Beijing’s new homeless

Tea Leaf Nation and social media reporting: "We source our materials from major social media services in China, including, but not limited to, Sina Weibo, Sina Blog, Tencent Weibo, Sohu Weibo, Mop Community and Tianya Community." (Quote source)

Tea Leaf Nation :: The recent devastating floodwaters that hit China’s capital ten days ago may have receded, but thousands of residents who dwell in Beijing’s basement tenements–many migrant workers with few other options in the expensive capital–have been left homeless, their subterranean flats flooded. And it appears that authorities, as well as many netizens, couldn’t seem to care less.

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A handpicked report by Jimmy, tealeafnation.com