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de milliers de crapauds (photo ci-dessus) dans la province du Jiangsu, ainsi que l'assèchement brutal et inexpliqué d'un étang dans les jours qui ont précédé le drame du Sichuan. Là encore, rien de concluant, car comme le relève le blog EastSouthWestNorth, des phénomènes de ce type sont régulièrement signalés sans être suivis de tremblements de terre. Pas assez significatif, en tout cas, pour évacuer des millions de personnes, ce qui aurait été nécessaire pour éviter le coût humain colossal

I like to imagine that an alternative is micro-stories, more personal accounts of the times of a people BEFORE a tragedy strikes. I think we can create a journalism industry that is a little bit more like Seinfield than Hearst. What about reporting on the everyday, with slight hooks in the narrative? What about telling someone the story of the fifth grade class or the market, as if every member of your audience as just as important as a think-tank, and needed to know just as much? Because one day, we all will be living in the same country. And if

information on the Chengdu Earthquake. We should probably be calling this the Wenchuan (汶川) Earthquake, but for the sake of the googlers, I’ll keep both placenames on the title and in the tags. Newest updates are on the top. Updates 5/14 Via EastSouthWestNorth The HK Apple Daily has more musings on the omen side of things.  Article in Chinese and translation over at ESWN They also have a fairly good roundup of the most moving earthquake-related photos- Some of the photo links seem to be dying, but most are

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law blog、Danwei、EastSouthWestNorth等，他们有的是在华的老外写的，有的是中国人写的，已经取得了不错的影响力。《时代》周刊也于近日建立了介绍中国情况的博客。此外还有的中国博客试图将中国的博文翻译成英文，介绍

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John Kennedy at Global Voices Online has translated an interesting piece being circulated online (h/t to ESWN). An overseas Chinese student in Korea claims that Chinese people residing in and visiting the country are now potentially unsafe following last month's torch relay protests, which turned violent: Near where we live there's this big lady who's always

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