Lin became one of the dominant players of men’s singles, winning nine top tier international championships between 2002 and 2004. In a surprise loss, he was eliminated as the no.1 seed in the first round of the badminton men’s singles in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. However, he has continued his dominance in international tournaments and has often been ranked number one in the world since early 2004, although Lee Chong Wei of Malaysia overtook him in 2006 and again in 2009.

Among the tournaments Lin Dan have won are the All-England Open (2004, 2006, 2007 and 2009), the BWF World Championships (2006, 2007 and 2009), and the Olympic Games (2008). He has helped China win three consecutive Thomas Cup (men’s world team) championships in 2004, 2006, and 2008 and has also been a major contributor to Chinese teams which won the Sudirman Cup (combined men’s and women’s team championship) in 2005, 2007 and 2009.

This old man walks 40 kiles very day to earn $5, but he rise 5 foundlings.

From Times:

In China they have a word for it. baoba means “protect eight,” the 8% annual economic growth rate that officials believe is critical to ensuring social stability. A year ago, many thought hitting such a figure in 2009 was a pipe dream. But China has done it, and this year it remains the world’s fastest-growing major economy — and an economic stimulus for everyone else. Who deserves the credit? Above all, the tens of millions of workers who have left their homes, and often their families, to find work in the factories of China’s booming coastal cities — in plants like the Shenzhen Guangke Technology Co.’s, just outside Hong Kong, which sits amid a jumble of snack stands, cheap clothing stalls and old men dragging carts filled with candy to sell to workers on their day off. Near the factory we found some of the people who are leading the world to economic recovery: Chinese men and women, their struggles in the past, their thoughts on the present and their eyes on the future.

— with reporting by Jessie Jiang / Shenzhen

See portraits of Chinese workers.

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• JJMB says:
  November 21, 2009 at 6:10 am
  Because then they’d have something written on their car in… French.
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  • JJMB says:
    November 21, 2009 at 6:41 am
    Also, regarding redundancy of sign: extant.
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• lolcopter says:
  November 21, 2009 at 6:48 am
  As a french, I can understand the guy doesn’t want french people in his cab. But dogs, seriously. Dogs are cool ! What a retard.
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• zhoen says:
  November 21, 2009 at 7:31 am
  French, English, same thing, right?
  (Check your headline, why wouldn’t “they”?)
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• Dunk says:
  November 21, 2009 at 7:56 am
  Becausethe fact that it’s in English is another F you to the French. They arereputed to be the rudest travelers on Earth. Even more so than us‘mericans.
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  • Kit Kat says:
    November 23, 2009 at 2:50 pm
    Wouldn’t this cab make them even ruder?
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• Daniel says:
  November 21, 2009 at 8:00 am
  What about Frenchmen without dogs? dogs without Frenchmen?
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  • Anna Rexia says:
    November 22, 2009 at 5:55 pm
    The sign doesn’t say Frenchmen with dogs. Learn to English.
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    • CocainCuresAll says:
      November 23, 2009 at 10:33 am
      i kind of see what he’s getting at. saying “frenchmen and dogs” rather than ‘frenchmen and/or dogs’ could be misleading.
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• Mr Evilwrench says:
  November 21, 2009 at 8:43 am
  All us white folks look alike to them, and we all speak English, don’t you know. Right?
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• Arno says:
  November 21, 2009 at 9:16 am
  Ibelieve the reason is that many pro-Tibetan independence frenchmen(most of frenchmen actually) called for a boycott of the 2010 Beijingolympics.
  In that regard, it is ironical that he uses a sign from the nazi time(replace “frenchemn” with “jews”) to make fun of an anti-imperialisticmovement…
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• Goldie says:
  November 21, 2009 at 9:25 am
  I’ve never met French tourists, and now I’m scared of them.
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• FrenchGuy says:
  November 21, 2009 at 9:46 am
  Hahaha ! Free Tibet
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• Kara says:
  November 21, 2009 at 10:00 am
  That actually does say that without being translated wrong 0_o
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  • Zero says:
    November 21, 2009 at 10:08 am
    Ican only understand a little Chinese but I’m Japanese so I can readmany of the kanji. It didn’t look like the translation was correct, butafter looking it up in the dictionary I can confirm Kara is correct –it does say no French or dogs can ride.
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• Aaron Hong says:
  November 21, 2009 at 11:03 am
  Cue the French Bruce Lee kicking the windshield in…
  except that the French don’t have a Bruce Lee… but they do have a Spider-man.
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• Mmm says:
  November 21, 2009 at 11:08 am
  What does the driver have against dogs?
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  • The Golden Fox says:
    November 21, 2009 at 7:20 pm
    Well i dont think the driver would have anything agains dogs if they could give him a destination and some freaking MONEY
    Belive me dogs does not like to pay for the ride
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• will says:
  November 21, 2009 at 12:17 pm
  please, everyone knows dogs can’t read french
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  • Curan says:
    November 22, 2009 at 4:04 am
    haha,that’s a funny conclusion. sensibility needs to be secured to theposter of the car. but, if it were “dogs and frenchmen” consecutively,it’s more likely that dogs have to engage into the reading.
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• mlmp says:
  November 21, 2009 at 12:24 pm
  C’est du n’importe quoi!
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• Gabriel says:
  November 21, 2009 at 12:37 pm
  Screw the sign, I’m more interested in what’s in the car that would make Chinese passerbys stop and look and take pictures.
  Reply
  • Shep333 says:
    November 21, 2009 at 6:42 pm
    I think it safe to assume that it’s not a French poodle.
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• 2 says:
  November 21, 2009 at 1:16 pm
  I’m French and I don’t really understand that.
  Well, the boycott is old and French didn’t really know all the story.
  It’s just because the motto of French republic is : “Freedom, equality, fraternity”
  Well, ok for the French but as it was written above, why dogs ?
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• Xupz says:
  November 21, 2009 at 1:28 pm
  COME ON! Stop thinking Parisians are the only people in France, dammit!
  THEY suck.
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• Andy B says:
  November 21, 2009 at 1:29 pm
  I’ll just open my own cab company and refuse to carry spiders and visigoths.
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  • Glicks says:
    November 21, 2009 at 2:54 pm
    Good call, spiders suck at tipping.
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    • Anna Rexia says:
      November 22, 2009 at 5:58 pm
      Cows are good tippers, though.
      Reply
• SAM (french) says:
  November 21, 2009 at 1:34 pm
  Because all dogs are not french!!!
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• TheHand says:
  November 21, 2009 at 1:47 pm
  “Eaux dear!” exclaimed the Parisian Poodle. “Now how shall I geaux to ze operah? Sacré bleu!”
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• Al says:
  November 21, 2009 at 2:30 pm
  How many dogs do you know that can read English? There’s no translation for them. This is animal abuse.
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• daFrenchie says:
  November 21, 2009 at 2:41 pm
  AsI am French I have sometimes seen how French people behave abroad. DamnI can understand he puts us on the same level as dogs.
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• Shep333 says:
  November 21, 2009 at 6:41 pm
  Ifthey had just written “Refuse to carry dogs”, it would obviously implythat Frenchmen weren’t allowed as well. Silly redundant Japanese taxi.
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  • gee says:
    November 22, 2009 at 10:08 am
    Silly you, rather. It’s not a Japanese but a Chinese taxi.. who somehow supports Beijing Olympics.
    Reply
  • chris says:
    November 23, 2009 at 10:40 am
    Hey,
    Japanese and Chinese are the same right ? I bet a dime you are American !
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    • gee says:
      November 23, 2009 at 9:30 pm
      Well,you just lost your dime. I’m Singaporean. And precisely why I know thatChina and Japan are like freaking two different countries. And I’m sickof Americans thinking that Singapore is some part of China by the way.
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      • Shep333 says:
        November 23, 2009 at 10:13 pm
        perhaps it’s a Chinese taxi in Japan? that would explain the unusual fascination it has evoked.
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• -SVEN- says:
  November 21, 2009 at 8:19 pm
  I can understand keeping the French out of the car, but whats wrong with dogs?
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  • Daniel says:
    November 21, 2009 at 11:00 pm
    Maybe it’s because it’s hard to be certain that a dog is *not* French.
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• Tom says:
  November 21, 2009 at 10:19 pm
  Shouldn’t Dogs get top billing over Frenchmen?
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• Kate says:
  November 21, 2009 at 10:40 pm
  Wait….what’s the difference?
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• Curan says:
  November 22, 2009 at 3:58 am
  Wherethere previous circumstances in which dog’s faeces were troubling?Going against the French is a racialist aspect. But, hinting on racism,the animal species are thrust to non-partial views as well?
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• incredible sickness says:
  November 22, 2009 at 5:55 am
  hmmm, strange folks.
  don’t they eat dogs?
  maybe tahts why they don’t write bark bark, wou kai, or stuff.
  do they also eat frenchmen?
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• EmperorQuinto says:
  November 22, 2009 at 7:52 am
  *Cough*, they’re being redundant… All they had to write was dogs…
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• Chamelon says:
  November 22, 2009 at 8:35 am
  They fart in your general direction.
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• Chris says:
  November 22, 2009 at 10:56 am
  Okay,so a Frenchman gets to China with a dog, a chicken and a cabbage. Buthe cant’s get to his hotel because he can’t ride in a cab with his dog— the cabs will only take Frenchmen *or* dogs. If he leaves the dog onthe curb and takes the chicken, the dog will pee on the cabbage…
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  • Shep333 says:
    November 23, 2009 at 12:19 am
    Iknow this one. The Frenchmen DOES take the chicken first, and allowsthe dog to pee on the cabbage, because everyone knows dirty Frenchmenlove urine-soaked cabbage. He goes back to get the cabbage only to findthat the dog has been eaten because everyone knows that silly Chinesepeople eat dogs. He mourns the loss of his dog, eats the urine cabbage,then goes back and has sex with the chicken. Easy. Anymore brainbusters?
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    • chris says:
      November 23, 2009 at 10:56 am
      Damnit, you find the secret ingredient in our French cuisine , weurine-soaked (best result with a diabetic Frenchman) our vegetables andhave sex with the animals before slaughtering them. That gives the bestratatouille ever, no wonder the word and especially America is cravingfor French cuisine ! Now I think the Chinese are jealous of the Frenchbecause we don’t eat dogs …
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• -Redsands- says:
  November 22, 2009 at 4:43 pm
  I think he should seriously reconsider the dogs part… Dogs are way less stinky than the French.
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• Anna says:
  November 22, 2009 at 8:23 pm
  Frenchmen and dogs… And what, exactly, is the difference?
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  • chris says:
    November 23, 2009 at 10:45 am
    Its time for you to see a good Optometrist !
    Reply
  • Anna Rexia says:
    November 24, 2009 at 12:50 am
    When a dog humps your leg, he doesn’t expect anything in return.
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• Ting says:
  November 22, 2009 at 8:44 pm
  alright,guys, i’m chinese, no comment on the pic. just wanna make it clear tothose who don’t understand what’s it to do with dogs. in chinese, ifsomeone says that you are a dog, he’s swearing on your personality.it’s nothing to do with animal discrimination, just the traditionalsaying.
  As for the saying of ‘** and dogs are not allowed’, it’s all becausedating back to early 20th century, when there were foreign settlementsin major cities in china, these foreigners held the dominance andforbade local residents to have their original rights, like making asign at the park gate saying ‘chinese and dogs are not allowed to comein’
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  • Al says:
    November 23, 2009 at 4:51 am
    Thank you for the explanation, Ting.  Wo ai zhongguo.
    Reply
  • Anna Rexia says:
    November 24, 2009 at 12:52 am
    Xiexie, Ting! Does the word “Ting” mean other than “stop” in China? Iremember that word from Taxi directions when I lived in Taiwan.
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• sanddunee says:
  November 22, 2009 at 11:35 pm
  Why, because frenchmen are all octopi and deserve to be slapped and dogs can’t eat chocolate.
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• Demondares says:
  November 23, 2009 at 7:39 am
  why no dogs, i can understand the no french everybody hates those guys. but no dogs? jeez…
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• Herg! says:
  November 23, 2009 at 2:33 pm
  Chinesepeople eat dogs, right? So I suppose what the driver, who must be neryneat, really means is “It’s not allowed to eat or stink in this car”
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  • Anna Rexia says:
    November 24, 2009 at 12:55 am
    Dogis a delicacy in a few areas, but keeping dogs as pets has growntremendously in China and some other Asian countries. It’s not justAsia, either, though it is outlawed in some countries.
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    • Herg! says:
      November 24, 2009 at 5:51 am
      I think you r missing the point… But thx for the information, anyway
      Reply
• Wolfpack says:
  November 23, 2009 at 3:13 pm
  You stupide Japonese pigue!
  Driveee fastor!
  Reply
• chuckn norris says:
  November 23, 2009 at 3:34 pm
  who dosent
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• killkiss says:
  November 23, 2009 at 7:31 pm
  haha, lovely guys~
  ????????
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• Holz says:
  November 24, 2009 at 5:50 am
  I really hope this guy never sees a Poodle on hkis way
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• Herg! says:
  November 24, 2009 at 5:54 am
  Tsc… If you can’t french kiss or do it doggy style, what’s the point in having a back seat?
  Reply