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(1) Carlos Tejada, Government Puts Focus on Illicit Tollbooths. China Real Time, Oct 7, 2011
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2011/10/07/government-puts-focus-on-illicit-tollbooths/
("Illegal tollbooths often begin as authorized toll-collecting stations that local officials keep open well past the point at which they have met their highway-funding purposes.  Chinese regulations allow tolls to be collected for a maximum of 15 years after a highway opens. A 2005 audit showed more than 4,300 tollbooths in the country.")

(2) James T Areddy, Chinese Property Mogul Sings Blues. China Real Time, Sept 28, 2011
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2011/09/28/soho-ceo-zhang-xin-chinese-property-mogul-sings-blues/
("Zhang Xin, the chief executive officer of Soho China Ltd., said Wednesday that in her 17 years in the residential property business she hasn’t faced such a tough market. * * * Referring to the higher ends of the market, where Soho focuses, she said, 'you’re seeing no transactions on the residential side.'”)

(3) Wynne Wang, China Breaks Cognac Auction Mark. China Real Time, Sept 28, 2011
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2011/09/28/china-breaks-cognac-auction-mark/
("A bottle of cognac fetched 1 million yuan (US$156,740) at a recent auction in Shanghai, handily exceeding the EUR25,000 record set in France in 2009, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. * * * The 1858 bottle from the Cognac Croizet")

(4) World’s Fastest Elevator: In China, but Made in Japan. China Real Time, Sept 28, 2011
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2011/09/28/worlds-fastest-elevator-in-china-but-made-in-japan/
(Mitsubishi Electric Corp. will furnish Shanghai Tower with a trio of elevators that "shoot[] up the skyscraper at a speed of 1,080 meters per minute. The ear-popping speed squeaks past the elevators in Taipei 101, which currently tout the record speed of 1,010 meters per minute, according to Guinness World Records")

(5) Owen Fletcher, Transgender TV Show Judge Claims Government Discrimination. China Real Time, Sept 23, 2011
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2011/09/23/transgender-tv-show-judge-claims-government-discrimination/

Note:
(a) Jin Xing  金星
(b) Fei Tong Fan Xiang  非同凡响

(6) Rose Yu, State-Run Drug Maker Answers Outrage Over Opulent Palace. China Real Time, Sept 12, 2011
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2011/09/12/state-run-drug-maker-answers-outrage-over-opulent-palace/

Note:
(a) Harbin Pharmaceutical Group Sixth Pharm Factory  哈药集团制药六厂 (哈药六厂)
www.hayaoliu.com.cn

(7) Sophie Friedman, Going Green in China. Scene, Sept 12, 2011.
http://blogs.wsj.com/scene/2011/09/12/going-green-in-china/

Note:
(a) The report was translated:
“裸家族”的度假风尚. Cuyoo.com 酷悠, undated.
http://www.cuyoo.com/home/portal.php?mod=view_both&aid=9394

(b) Grant HORSFIELD  高 天成 (a native of S Africa)
wife Delphine YIP  叶 凯欣
(c) Naked Home Village
(d) LEED stands for Leadership in Environmental Energy Design.
(e) A 54-page brochure:
naked Stables Private Reserve. Investors Report 投资者报告. May 2011.
http://www.nakedretreats.cn/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Investors-Report.pdf

(8) Lee Lawrence, A Mysterious Stranger in China. Wall Street Journal, Sept 3, 2011
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904332804576540533071105892.html
(“'Keep in mind that at the height of the Tang period, the population of the imperial capital was about one million and, of these, at least a fourth were probably foreigners,' Mr [Marco] Guglielminotti[, MAO’s curator of East Asian art,] says")

Note:
(a) sidesaddle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidesaddle

The word sidesaddle can be a noun (refers to the special saddle; see Wiki) or an adverb.
(b) aquiline (adj; Latin aquila eagle): "curving like an eagle's beak <an aquiline nose>"
www.m-w.com

(9) Rose Yu, Tarnished Memories: Gold Olympic Good Luck Dolls Turn Rusty. China Real Time, Aug 31, 2011
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2011/08/31/china-tarnished-memories-gold-olympic-good-luck-dolls-turn-rusty/
("Buyers of limited-edition gold Fuwa dolls, the mascots of the 2008 Summer Games, are saying their figurines, purchased from Bank of China Ltd., are turning rusty — even though they were given certificates stating that the dolls are made of 99.9% fine gold")



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