Gay Chinese Penguins Adopt a Chick
In this photo, the gay penguin couple had been segregated after allegedly stealing other penguins' chicks. (Photo credit: EuroPics/Newscom)
A popular “gay” penguin couple in China has been given a newly hatched chick to care for. The male penguins were given the hatchling because a female penguin was struggling after giving birth to twins, which is rare for penguins, according to the U.K.’s Metro.
“It’s a big job creating a baby penguin. It’s definitely a two-penguin job,” Kevin McGowan of the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology in Ithaca, N.Y., told ABCNews.com.
Dotcom could fall into disuse
Companies likely to join the race to add a new suffix to domain names
BEIJING - Dozens of Chinese businesses are likely to join about 1,000 global corporations in a pioneering project to have their company names affixed to the end of Internet domain names by 2013, replacing the suffix .com.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the global Internet regulatory body, will start to accept applications to register new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) - including Chinese character domains for the first time - on Jan 12, 2012. About 1,000 applications will be processed in the world.
"The gTLD program is going to be a brilliant opportunity for Chinese companies to create new business models on the Web," said Xiaodong Lee, who will become vice-president of ICANN on Monday and lead the organization in the Asia-Pacific region.
China's first gay pageant gives glimpse of new acceptance
There's a swimwear round and a talent section where contestants can show off their singing and dancing. But organisers insist the contest to be held this Friday is a serious business. It is China's first gay pageant.
The event is a striking sign of how far attitudes in China have changed and of gay people's increasing confidence. Gay sex was illegal until 1997. Homosexuality was classed as a mental illness for four years after that. Now an emerging gay community is busting stereotypes.
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