Chinese seek to pull cats from the menu

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- Chinese seek to pull cats from the menu
- New York Times website blocked in China
- Guangzhou contributes 48.6 bln yuan to clean up Pearl River

Chinese seek to pull cats from the menu
Los Angeles Times CA 
The Small Animal Protection Assn. says one business in Guangzhou where cats are eaten captures up to 10000 a day including pets from around China and brings them back to be sold as food. Chinese seek to pull cats from the menu.

New York Times website blocked in China
TG Daily 
Now we are seeing some changes again. Access to the New York Times website from Mainland China has been blocked. n Friday morning when computer users in areas such as Beijing Guangzhou and Shanghai made attempts to view the New York Times website they only saw a message that the site was not available. This comes after many other sites such as BBC Voice of America and Asiaweek were also blocked earlier in the week. These sites were accessible again by Friday. There was no clear explanation why access to the New York Times was blocked. In fact the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing told the Times that they did not have all of the details.
Related from Zjkjw: New York Times site still blocked in China

Guangzhou contributes 48.6 bln yuan to clean up Pearl River
Xinhua China 
23 (Xinhua) — A total of 48. 6 billion yuan (about 7. dollars) will be spent by mid 2010 to clean up the Pearl River and its tributaries in China’s southeastern Guangzhou City the municipal government said Tuesday.

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