Strange TV

I've not been feeling well the last couple of days so not much to report (not much interesting anyway).

We get one English TV station here (for free anyway) called CCTV English. It is basically just a news, current affairs and kind of China advertisement station. They have news at the normal sorts of times, then during the day some (occasionally) interesting shows about various parts of China.

This evening the top story was about a festival in what the rest of the world calls Tibet and here is called the Tibetan Autonomous Zone. From what I can gather (the various reporters don't always speak great English and the sound production can be pretty crappy) this is a festival that has gone on each year for the past 1000 or so (they make a lot of sweeping statements on Chinese news) and is about yogurt. This seems unlikely but it's been on TV two nights in a row (they also repeat a LOT of stories). Weird.

Incidentally, the news is incredibly dull.