links for 2008-04-18

• Chinese Class Clown Executed | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
  classroom jokester Wei Xiang, 11, was put to death by the Chinese government for drawing a mustache on an image of Education Minister Zhou Ji in one of his textbooks, sources reported Monday.
  (tags: humor)
• Channelnewsasia.com: China reportedly cancels May 1 plan to reopen Tibet
  Asked whether the reopening for foreign and domestic tourists had been postponed, a Tibet Tourism Bureau official told AFP by phone: "Yes, because conditions are not ripe for it."
  (tags: china tibet protests)
• Pub Philosopher: Chinese troops reported in Zimbabwe
  There are reports from Zimbabwe of Chinese troops attacking MDC supporters in the eastern province of Manicaland and of ten armed Chinese military officers appearing with Zimbabwean army colleagues in a hotel in the provincial capital, Mutare.
  (tags: china africa)
• Torch passes quietly through empty Delhi streets - International Herald Tribune
  The Olympic torch made a strange and lonely procession through central Delhi on Thursday, with the event so comprehensively overshadowed by fears of the anti-Chinese protests that no members of the public were allowed close enough to witness it.
  (tags: china olympics tibet protests)
• Michael J. Totten: Now They Have Turned to the Tribes
  (tags: iraq military waronterror)
• FOXNews.com - PetSmart Sued for Hamster Blamed in Deaths of Three People
  (tags: news)