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Showing posts with label china. Show all posts
Showing posts with label china. Show all posts

Sunday, March 15, 2009

Beijing Tax Declaration Website Supports Firefox, Great!

I'm glad to finish my tax declaration online by using Firefox running on Linux. Every function of Beijing Taxation Bureau's website works well with Firefox.

Though there are spaces for them to improve, such as adding HTTPS support.

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

China Earthquake Relief, Sichuan, 2008

The 2008 Sichuan earthquake occurred at 14:28:04.1 CST (06:28:04.1 UTC) on 12 May 2008, with its epicenter in Wenchuan County, Sichuan province of the People's Republic of China. It had a magnitude of 7.8 Ms according to the State Seismological Bureau of China and 7.9 Mw according to the United States Geological Survey.

With more than 60,000 recently confirmed dead so far, it was the deadliest and strongest earthquake to hit China since the 1976 Tangshan earthquake, which killed approximately 250,000 people.

Please consider donation to China Red Cross! Thank you!

Friday, April 04, 2008

Wikipedia Unblocked (temp) in China

Now I can access Wikipedia in China without using a proxy, not all contents, only a large part. This is a big step forward.

As well as blogspot.com, wow!

May His Holiness let this last.

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