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Warning: Controversial. Have you seen Dan Rather's documentary titled Unwanted i...

Warning: Controversial. Have you seen Dan Rather's documentary titled Unwanted in America and about adoption disruption/rehoming? It's on Vimeo and the password is danrather.


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Please SHARE so they can find this guy and sort out the truth. He's a foreigner...

Please SHARE so they can find this guy and sort out the truth. He's a foreigner in China alleged to have been abusing children he takes in for his own charity. After dropping a girl at the hospital, he disappeared with the other 10 or so children. If he's innocent, he needs to come forward and prove it. If he's guilty, he needs to be stopped.


Shunyi Foreign Foster Parent of 11 Disappears, Critically Ill Child at Hospital | Beijingkids...
www.beijing-kids.com
Police are seeking the whereabouts of a fifty-something foreigner they suspect of child abuse whose eight-year-old foster daughter is recovering from surgery at a Beijing hospital. The Legal Daily reported Thursday that the girl, called Phoebe, is one of

Interesting article about how a foreign exchange student sees American life.

Interesting article about how a foreign exchange student sees American life.


Differences between Wilton and China
www.wiltonbulletin.com
Yuntian Han, of Jinan, China, is attending Wilton High School this year as an exchange student through the nonprofit educational organization Program of Ac

Timeline Photos"I was told, that when I was born, all sta...

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"I was told, that when I was born, all started to change. All of the community changed. Before there weren't any televisions, phones or fans. Now we wear city clothes and only the elderly walk barefoot and naked. The houses were open, so the wind could come in, now there are walls. We began to be ashamed of each other ... "

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"Me decían, cuando yo nací, empezó un cambio grave. Toda la comunidad se cambió. Antes no habían televisores ni teléfonos o ventiladores. Ahora también ya nos ponemos ropa de ciudad. Solo los ancianos están descalzos o desnudos. Las casas eran abiertas para que entre el viento, pero ahora ya existen paredes. Ya nos da más pena a todos..."

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- met her in Union Chocó, Darién [ PANAMA ] (Emberá tribe)

Timeline Photos"We don't use money in our community.""W...

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"We don't use money in our community."

"Well ... there are some guys who go to work in the capital to be able to buy stuff, but most women can't get out of here. Everything is based on sharing. The bananas or the yuccas are all cultivated by everyone and sometimes the boys take them down to the beginning of the road on boats in order to sell them. The little money they bring back is then shared between all of us."

"The construction also works like this. If someone needs a new home all will come and help to build it. This is how we made the basketball court and also the largest 'palapa' where the Chief let you to sleep."

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"En nuestra comunidad no se utiliza el dinero."

"Bueno hay unos jóvenes que van a trabajar a la capital para poder comprarse más cosas, pero la mayoría de las mujeres no podemos salir de acá. Todo funciona en la forma de compartir. Los plátanos o las yucas son de todos, los cultivamos juntos y de vez en cuando los chicos los bajan en la lancha a la carretera para vender y la poca plata que traen la repartimos entre todos."

"Asimismo funciona la construcción. Si alguien necesita una nueva casa todo el mundo ayuda a construirla. Así nos hicimos la cancha de basquetbol y también la palapa presidencial grande donde los dejo el saila a dormir."

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- met them in Union Chocó, Darién [ PANAMA ] (Emberá tribe)

So shocking. This family lived in the same community in China that I used to liv...

So shocking. This family lived in the same community in China that I used to live. Many of my friends know him well. Also, the baijiu thing has long been an issue for businessmen, including my own husband. How sad for his wife and family. They are in my prayers. --Kay

From article: Things had got so bad that Mr Mason sent his wife an email while he was away raising the subject of breaking their contracts and returning to Australia. It was the last time she would ever hear from him.

The following day “an old Chinese man” came to the house “frantically ringing” the doorbell.

Mrs Phillips-Mason was driven to a police station in the town where the conference had been held.

“I thought, whatever is going on, this is going to be one hell of a good story to tell our mates back home,” she said.

But then police told her to get into a military van, which they drove to an outdoor morgue in a remote village.

With curious villagers looking on, her husband’s body was removed from one of the fridges.

“I screamed. I could barely stand,” she said. “He was wrapped in clear plastic and tied with ropes.


Australian expat’s mystery death during work trip to China leaves widow seeking answers
www.dailytelegraph.com.au
IT was always the worst part of Neil Mason’s job in China, the only foreigner among a group of hard-drinking, chinese-speaking colleagues on another dreaded “team-bonding” weekend away from his wife.

Oh my....TWO much cuteness! ;)

Oh my....TWO much cuteness! ;)


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You won't want to miss this "love" letter to Tate and Joel, two of the big boys at our Heartbridge Healing Home who are expected to be going home with their forever families for Christmas this year! http://bit.ly/12abupo

Timeline Photos"We come from a small village in Yunnan an...

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"We come from a small village in Yunnan and this is our first time in Shanghai."

... it must be quite a shock, right?

"Yes we are 'shocked' :D, ... ok, this city is amazing for a visit ... but you know we all agreed on a fact that after all, we like our home more."

"The place where we live has everything; mountains, clear rivers & clean air. We live a quite ordinary life compared to the people living here in the city. Our biggest concern is that the rice is planted on time, getting fresh vegetables for cooking & that the house is clean everyday."

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“我们从云南来，这是我第一次来上海。'

哇，那你们有没有觉得很惊讶？

“是啊，真的！上海太疯狂啦，但我们还是更喜欢自己的家乡。

“我们家里什么都有，有山，清澈的水和清新的空气。相比之下我们的生活更加安宁。我们吃自己种的米，煮自己种的新鲜蔬菜"

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- met them on the Bund

And The WINNER is......(drumroll please)

And The WINNER is......(drumroll please)

Don't be a part of the statistic.

Don't be a part of the statistic.


'Three pets abandoned every hour over Christmas' – RSPCA
www.theguardian.com
Charity is again inundated with cats and dogs over festive period, in particular Staffordshire bull terriers