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  2. Current Events

    in The Middle Kingdom - 中国

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    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8vzydm3vq8o

    Guangdong, China's most populous province, was hit with flash floods last week that killed four people and displaced 110,000 others.

    The floods also damaged dozens of houses, shut schools and caused flight cancellations and delays. Authorities have estimated economic losses of 140.6m yuan ($19.4m; £15.5m).

    The wild weather continued over the weekend, when a tornado ravaged a factory district in the provincial capital of Guangzhou, killing five people and wounding 33 others.

    Hailstones the size of golf balls were also seen raining down on the city.

     

     

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  3. Coming to the U.S.

    in The Middle Kingdom - 中国

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    This should be on now.

    On 11/17/2023 at 9:56 PM, Randy W said:

    There is more to this world than meets the eye. 3 Body Problem, a genre-bending mystery series based on the internationally best selling book series, is coming to in 2024. #GeekedWeek


    from Netflix on Facebook
    https://www.facebook.com/netflixus/posts/pfbid0FS8gBWnSa53cyXMUuEDruMDowBASwA5k6hWKWdJin3KYcsY3pYs6r4PJRUtwJVc1l

    It should be available on Netflix, but I'm not able to check.

     

     

  4. Potentially Stormy Waters Ahead

    in Site Access

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    On 9/23/2023 at 1:39 AM, Randy W said:

    the new data updated ( found at https://www.whois.com/whois/candleforlove.com, although the other whois links I've been watching, including whois.godaddy.com,  still haven't updated) 

    Domain Name: CANDLEFORLOVE.COM
Registry Domain ID: 90507582_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.godaddy.com
Registrar URL: http://www.godaddy.com
Updated Date: 2023-09-22T07:42:50Z
Creation Date: 2002-09-22T00:52:52Z
Registry Expiry Date: 2024-09-22T00:54:14Z
Registrar: GoDaddy.com, LLC

    Yes - our registartion is up for renewal in Sept., but we still don't know how that is being covered.

  6. Current Events

    in The Middle Kingdom - 中国

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    from Lei's Real Talk

    Xi’s plan to deal with opposition, political crisis, and Taiwan

    27,596 views  Streamed live on Apr 14, 2024
    1) Why the CCP has postponed its 3rd plenum
    2) Xi Jinping’s plan to handle political and economic storms
    3) Xi’s relationship with the princeling opposition forces
    4) Xi’s plan for Taiwan

     

     

  13. China’s Short-Video Revolution

    in Culture & Language Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Randy W (see edit history)

    Tired of your job? Desperate for a change? Be careful: Spend too long toiling at a dead-end job and you might find the stench of your office hard to wash off.


    from the Sixth Tone on Facebook 
    Office Stench 

    https://www.facebook.com/sixthtone/posts/pfbid0H5fHP1LeofsGWAp1g6EHe5qDanLjyuoj5UVqh5ySpfYZScoVwJycSVyhfpXAP4frl

    How Rediscovering User Creativity Fueled China’s Short-Video Revolution

    Chinese entrepreneurs once dismissed user-generated content (UGC) as “industrial waste.” Now that waste is powering their global ambitions.

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    But these troubles shouldn’t distract from what the app, and by extension its operator, ByteDance, has accomplished since it debuted back in 2016. At a time when many American tech giants had soured on user-generated content (UGC) — Twitter shuttered its own short-video service, Vine, in 2017 — ByteDance leveraged its highly addictive algorithm to become one of the first Chinese tech firms with a truly global reach. Within China, where TikTok is known as Douyin, revenues from short videos are projected to reach $30 billion by 2021, and ByteDance’s success has kicked off what Chinese investors call a “wind tunnel” of investment.

     

  22. Can You Get Into China?

    in The Middle Kingdom - 中国

    Posted · Edited by Randy W (see edit history)

    Passenger flights between China, US to increase to 100/week from March 31: official

    from the Global Times

    https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202402/1307934.shtml

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    Chinese and US airlines will increase passenger flights from March 31, an official of the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) said on Thursday, a positive sign of flight recovery between the two countries.

    Starting on March 31, airlines from China and the US can operate a total of 100 scheduled round trips per week, Dai Jun, an official from the CAAC, told a press conference.

    It will be the biggest jump for such flights since the outbreak of the pandemic. There were three rounds of flight increases in 2023, and the most recent was from 48 to 70, starting from October.

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