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Socially redeeming features of the internet No 10476: An abusive Shanghai Metro train passenger has changed her ways after a video recording made its way on to the internet.
The Shanghai Daily reported that the young woman had sworn at staff, even hitting one of them, when they tried to prevent her sneaking through the barriers on several occasions. But another passenger recorded her antics and posted the video online.
The middle-aged woman had been in the habit of sneaking out at Tangqiao Station on Line 4 since May to deliver items to her mother who lived nearby.

The video, which showed her swearing at a female worker and hitting her on July 29, has so far attracted more than 100,000 clicks, and lots of criticism. The worker, in her early 20s, can be seen bursting into tears but not retaliating.
One comment on local news website xinmin.cn said she should apologize to the worker, and her family would be ashamed of her.
Chen Guanghua, a manager with local Metro authority, said the passenger would often sneak out at the station and then sneak back in to continue her journey, saving the cost of an extra ticket.
When Metro workers tried to stop her she would yell and swear at them.
But after her internet exposure, Chen said the woman had expressed regret about her behavior. Now her mother comes to the station to meet her and items are handed over the railings.
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Australia's queen of YouTube, Natalie Tran, is one of just 10 independent YouTube stars around the world who made more than $US100,000 from the site in the past year.
The Sydney Morning Herald said Tran, who creates her video at her parents' home in western Sydney, has eschewed titillation in favour of clever skits about her life.
Tran's page, communitychannel, has long been the most subscribed Australian YouTube channel of all time, with 740,682 subscribers and more than 270 million views on her videos to date. Worldwide, she is 23rd most subscribed of all time.

A new study by YouTube analytics and advertising firm TubeMogul used users' viewership data to estimate their annual income under YouTube's partner program, which allows the most popular users to take half of the advertising revenue derived from their clips.
The study applied to anyone who was not part of a major media brand and covered the period from July 2009 to July this year.
Tran, with almost 139 million views in that year, was found to have earned an income of $US101,000.
This is a conservative estimate and covers just the Google ads alongside each clip - the figure could be higher if one includes money earned from paid endorsements and product placement.
Top 10 YouTube earners in the past year
1. Shane Dawson - $US315,000
2. The Annoying Orange - $US288,000
3. Philip DeFranco - $US181,000
4. Ryan Higa - $US151,000
5. Fred - $US146,000
6. Shay Carl - $US140,000
7. Mediocre Films - $US116,000
8. Smosh - $US113,000
9. The Young Turks - $US112,000
10. Natalie Tran - $US101,000
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Indonesian police have detained TV presenter Luna Maya, a suspect in the leaked sex videos scandal that rocked Indonesia.
National Police spokesman Senior Commander said on Thursday July 15 that Luna was arrested on Wednesday night after being questioned earlier in the day.
Marwoto said that it “likely” that Luna was arrested for being uncooperative in police investigation.
The police have also named Luna's boyfriend Nazriel “Ariel” Irham, lead singer of prominent boy band Peterpan, and TV presenter Cut Tari as suspects in the same case.
Ariel had been detained earlier.
Detectives charged Ariel with the 2008 Pornography Law, which carries a maximum punishment of 12 years in jail.
The trio were embroiled in the sex scandal after three videos were uploaded on Facebook.
Two of the videos, one allegedly with Ariel, the lead singer of the pop band Peterpan, having sex with current girlfriend Luna Maya and the second allegedly with Ariel and his former girlfriend Cut Tari was uploaded on Facebook.
The videos were taken off the popular social network but not before dozens of copies started to emerge in several forum’s, video sharing websites and porn sites in Indonesia.
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The editor of Murdoch’s Australian company New Ltd’s strange online site, The Punch, is all a twitter about Twitter claiming that it’s all a communist plot.
First there were reds under the bed, now there are reds to be read online.
The Punch editor David Penberthy was writing about the Australian opposition leader Tony Abbott’s outburst on a national TV program


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Journalists are in the thick of things as Bangkok begins to erupt.
At time of writing reports state that two foreign journalists were shot in the legs but details have yet to be confirmed.
A big drama played out for Tom Fuller of the International Herald Tribune/ New York Times group. He was in the middle of interviewing Major Gen Khattiya Sawasdipol, alias Seh Daeng, when the Thai strongman was shot through the head by a sniper


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Some journalists who served as correspondents in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War years have become precious and disapproving of attempts to find the remains of Dana Stone and Sean Flynn who disappeared in Cambodia after being last seen on April 6, 1970.
Last Sunday, an article by Perry Deane Young of the McClatchy News Service appeared in the Miami Herald headlined, “Efforts to recover bodies of missing journalists in Cambodia spark ire.”
Young wrote, “Now, suddenly, almost out of the oblivion of time, their names are back in the news with reports from Cambodia that Flynn's remains may have been found


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The time line below of Bangkok Post updates tells it all: the swift government reversal as red shirt protestors on Friday determinedly stormed the Thaicom centre to demand the reconnection of People TV channel (PTV) that had previously been shut down by the government.
The afternoon started with the government declaring that protestors would not be allowed to seize the Thaicom centre.
Then after a dramatic three hours the government capitulated and People TV was back on air at 5.47


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A former TMZ producer has filed a lawsuit against the site, claiming he was fired for complaining about alcohol and drug use by other staffers on the job after he returned from a medical leave for depression.
Media Alley reported that according to the suit, filed by Christian Shostle in Los Angeles Superior Court on Tuesday, his co-workers "were using illegal drugs on the job, which was aggravating his stress condition and making his work environment harmful."
Shostle is suing TMZ for wrongful termination


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“Murdoch's Arab foray seen as a Trojan horse,” trumpets a Middle East Online headline.
The tie-up between Arab entertainment giant Rotana and pro-Israel media mogul Rupert Murdoch is viewed in Egypt not only with suspicion but as signalling the decline of Arab film and art heritage, claims Middle East Online.
The news site added, “In a country where film and television attract some of the largest audiences in the Arab world, the tycoon's foray into the Middle East is widely seen in cultural circles as a ruse to benefit Israel


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Cosmopolitan magazine was launched in Vietnam this week and honours for one of the most ridiculous commentaries must go to America’s Min Online.
Min’s puerile coverage reads:
“Plenty of emotion and irony here, as Cosmopolitan enters Vietnam, where 50,000-plus Americans lost their lives from roughly the mid-1960s through the mid-1970s fighting Communist North Vietnam. Yet, like China, theoretically ‘Communist’ Vietnam has embraced capitalism, with proof being April's launch of Cosmopolitan's 60th edition in the country


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