Media and Mao

Its Mao's birthday (last saturday), were the lines outside his Mausoleum any bigger than usual?

Foreign news agencies are being more tightly controlled throughout China according to this article (read on to see the full list of illegal things they cannot do)... and the measures shall be applied to the release of news and information on the mainland by news agencies in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Macao Special Administrative Region and Taiwan. Yeah, right

Bullet and bomb proof WC in Beijing

http://english.people.com.cn//200609/04/eng20060904_299452.html

I am not quite sure the point of this -is it to throw a bomb in, so it can be detoanted safely? -is it for all of zhonguancun to try to squeeze into the toilet when there is a bomb threat? -Is it just that some American company bribed a local official to buy their latest invention which they couldn't even sell in the USA?

any other ideas?