Tag Archives: AIDS

“Xinjiang People, I’m Sorry, Thank You”

I promised, a few posts down, another document that refers to “Xinjiang people”, not just Uyghur or Han or whatever. Recently, the following post, once found at this address, was passed on to me by [...]

Kebabs will not give you AIDS. Maybe. Yargh!

So you may have heard through your friendly telecommunications company health announcement text message service that kebabs might give you AIDS. We heard it first at Liuzhou Laowai. The original text message, when translated to [...]

Xinjiang Roundup: 25 November to 1 December 2007

This week, Xinjiang’s Olympic athletes began their final winter training session, the number four was banished from future Urumqi license plates, a medical specialist blew the whistle on lead poisoning problems among Xinjiang children, Urumqi [...]

Xinjiang Roundup: 4 November to 10 November 2007

The first week of November saw a national level committee investigate AIDS statistics and prevention practices in Xinjiang, international level efforts to help protect Przewalski’s horses from the front-bumper menace, interested investors from Europe and [...]