China briefly observed daylight savings time from 1986 to 1991, but suspended it in 1992. One important reason for this is that China, the fourth largest country in the world, only has one time zone (UTC+8). Moving the clock an hour ahead would further widen the time differences between the east and west part of China. Here is an account by an American living in Xinjiang.
Some Chinese netizens have launched a site called “anti-cnn.com” to vent their anger toward CNN.
In a CNN report on the turmoil in Tibet dated on March 15, an accompanying picture of the report showed two army trucks on the street in Lhasa. Some Chinese netizens found the original picture from AFP, and condemned CNN for cropping the picture to screen out the rioters stoning the trucks. On the Anti-CNN site, several other western media are also criticized for using the pictures of the Nepalese protests to report what happened in Tibet.
The link to the inflammatory report at CNN.com, which has over 1300 diggs, has been replaced by CNN with the original picture and a different story.
The squat toilet or squatters is a widely used toilet in China. It is basically a porcelain pot built into the floor. Unless you stay only in upscale hotels or restaurants, you are very likely to see and use this kind of toilet in China.
