Cheat Sheet: August 3-4 2011
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- A Chinese land developer is building a Manhattan knockoff on a peninsula south of Beijing. (The Atlantic)
- Radiation levels in the Fukushima power plant are still high enough to kill a human being. (Boing Boing)
- Phuong Ly asks, “As people of color become a majority, is it time to stop using the term ‘minorities’?” (Poynter)
- A man in Beijing holds himself hostage at a busy intersection before being detained by a SWAT team. (Shanghaiist)
- Kim Jong-il is raising funds through top North Korean programmers, who hacked online games for real money trading. (The Chosunilbo)
- A detailed look into two Internet memes spawned by the Wenzhou train crash. (ChinaGeeks)
- Auteur anime director Makoto Shinkai, hailed as “the next Miyazaki”, will be at this year’s New York Anime Festival. (Anime News Network)
- The Malaysian arm of hacker group Anonymous plans to launch another cyberattack on government websites. (Free Malaysia Today)
- Profiling Jasmine Lee, a Filipina civil servant striving to better the lives of migrant women in Korea. (The Korea Herald)
- A journey through the real-life locations of Hong Kong that inspired scenes from the cyberpunk anime Ghost in the Shell. (Randomwire)
(image via Colleen Kinder)
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