Gajwa Station Rail Cave-in
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007Gusts of Popular Feeling has an excellent write up of what happened with the Gajwa station rail bed collapse, including photos. A train went over those tracks just seven minutes before the cave-in!
Archive for June 12th, 2007
China’s Surname Shortage
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007Via AFP: “In a country of around 1.3 billion people, about 85 percent share only 100 surnames… Under a new draft regulation… parents will be able to combine their surnames for their children… ethnic minorities would encourage[d] to use traditional surnames and avoid… taking Han Chinese surnames.” Maybe they should look into Korean surnames?
