Cat is more expensive if you have to raise it for meat. If trapped or stolen it’s cheap. But they’ll be full of diseases.
Sometimes, when I read posts on forumosa, I feel I have stumbled into the mind of certain posters. It can be, when examined, a frightening place. 
Guy
Conspiracy theory or ?
Kind of like the Christmas holidays without Christmas Day.
Extremely unpopular arbitrary move…yup Xi Jin Ping.
haven’t they been cutting back the golden week holiday as well from it’s heyday.
However in this regard they may be much better than Tsiwan.
Statutory paid vacation is required by the Labor Contract Law of China , and the number of days depends on the total number of years spent in employment. Note that, unlike in other countries, the total number of years is based on an employee’s work experience with all employers, not just the current one
Which is our situation here in Taiwan! I (almost) always take the day off and so do my kids. It just seems so wrong to work on that day.
What’s wack about it is that if it were just ignored, far less would pay attention. It’s wack because this is just common sense.
Like the Winnie the Pooh fiasco. Nobody outside of China would have ever heard of this if it was just ignored. Internally, my guess is that after a while, people would move on and not make the association with Xi.
China is forcing all large social media accounts to doxx themselves. 
Good luck when they post something controversial.
All major platforms (WeChat, Weibo, Baidu, Douyin, Kuaishou, Bilibili) made simultaneous announcements that they will ask users with a least half a million followers to display real IDs to the public.
A lot of social media has a real name policy. Facebook for example. They might not require you to submit id but some social media companies can, if their government require it.
I think it’s not a bad idea, it cuts down on trolling.
A lot of people don’t know this but opening multiple accounts on Facebook isn’t allowed and people have been banned for this.
China is cracking down on weather stations it says are spying for foreign countries, the latest measure in a broad counter-espionage campaign under leader Xi Jinping amid intensifying geopolitical tensions.
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/01/china/china-crackdown-weather-stations-spying-intl-hnk/index.html
NYE = 除夕 ＝除習
Someone’s a bit sensitive.
Didn’t they just fly a “weather balloon” over the US?
Very good point!
Never mind the song itself, just the fact that this is so low-budget, that instead of renting or even borrowing an actual Benz (which the song references driving one), the trike conversion motorcycle just has 奔驰 (Benz) written on a piece of cardboard across the front 
If it’s in Macedonia, why are you posting it in this topic?
Because the previous post reminded me of it and I think it’s just a similar kind of humor rather than something wack in China, and because we don’t have a “wack things in Macedonia” thread. 
Not yet! But we do have…
The reaction in Taiwan was not without wack, but what’s going on over in China is far wackier, in my opinion.
According to a story that has circulated in China for decades, Mao Zedong’s (毛澤東) eldest son Mao Anying (毛岸英) died on a Korean War battlefield on Nov. 25, 1950, allegedly because the smoke from the egg fried rice he cooked gave away his position. Some Chinese who disagree with Mao Zedong or the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) deliberately post recipes for egg fried rice online as an act of defiance near Mao Anying’s birthday on Oct. 24 or the date of his death.
Chinese celebrity chef Wang Gang (王剛) on Nov. 27 posted a video introducing his recipe for egg-fried rice. However, due to massive online backlash from Chinese nationalists, Wang posted a video that same day apologizing and vowing that he will never make egg fried rice or post a video of it ever again.