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            <title>Beijing News recalled from newsstands for carrying subversive picture | Shanghaiist</title>
            <link>http://virtualreview.org/china/zoom/661174/beijing-news-recalled-from-newsstands-for-carrying-subversive-picture</link>
            <description><![CDATA["Yesterday, Beijing News published an interview with former Associated Press Beijing-based reporter Liu Xiangcheng.  The story appeared in page C15, and belongs to the series about thirty years of reform.  The title was I used photographs to record the...]]></description>
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            <title>Lights out for Shanghai? | Shanghaiist</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[It's been a scorcher of a week and those little AC units are working on overtime.  So much so, that it threatens to plunge us all into darkness.  Okay, maybe the situation hasn't gotten that melodramatic, but according to Xinhua News we used a whopping...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:51:03 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>For sale: Naming rights for the Bird's Nest | Danwei</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Ling Long Pagoda and fireworks at the Bird's Nest by TooManyTribbles 

The China Daily reports:



People who failed to get tickets for Olympic events at the Bird's Nest can look forward to getting inside the iconic venue after the Games, as it was...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:51:03 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>The Return of Olympic Hostess Voodoo | Shanghai Scrap</title>
            <link>http://virtualreview.org/china/zoom/661113/the-return-of-olympic-hostess-voodoo</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Back in February Shanghai&#8217;s Xinmin Evening News ran a short item in regard to the selection criteria being used to find forty college-aged Shanghai &#8220;beauties&#8221; to serve as Olympic medal hostesses in Beijing that was quickly picked up - in...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:53:20 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Olympic Security English: &quot;Shut up so we can finish our search&quot; | Shanghaiist</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In an article about official Olympic protest areas, the Wall Street Journal linked to some scanned pages from Olympic Security English, a training manual for Olympic police. We have reproduced those pages for your enjoyment.

Poor Mr. Leer. He's an honest...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:51:06 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Prejudice: It's what's for dinner | Shanghaiist</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Well it was in 1967, anyway. Courtesy of Popsucker, here's a 41-year-old ad from the Rice Council of America that's about as un-PC as you can get.



And, really, we have our doubts that the pictured serving of rice topped with butter is going to have the...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:51:05 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Photo of the Day: I'm on the top of the world | Shanghaiist</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Photo by Langoustine

More photos on the Shanghaiist Contribute page. To see your photos on our Contribute page, use Flickr and tag your photos “shanghaiist”. Or you can email your photos to photos@shanghaiist.com and they will automatically appear on...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:51:04 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Two more quakes for Sichuan | Shanghaiist</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Earthquakes with magnitudes of 4.8 and 5.5 hit Sichuan yesterday afternoon after an early morning tremor struck the region. The first counts report the quakes left at least one dead, 17 injured and 360 homes flattened. The tremors are just the latest in...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:51:03 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Olympic terrorists arrested in Shanghai | Shanghaiist</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Police said yesterday they had cracked down on a Shanghai terrorist cell planning violence at Olympic soccer matches in the city. Shanghai’s Olympic security office head Cheng Jiulong said police, who were put on “crisis” level several days ag...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:51:02 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Shanghai is restricting the issue of business visas ahead of the Beijing Olympics | Shanghaiist</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In fact, all cities hosting Olympic events will do the same. The Shanghai Foreign Economic Relations and Trade Commission said it will postpone approval of notification letters needed for business visas until mid-September for all but essential travel,...]]></description>
            <author>vr@virtualreview.org</author>
            <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 05:51:04 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Use Firefox? Like Taobao and Dianping? | Shanghaiist</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Well, you might want to check out these Chinese website search plugins for your browser. Some work for IE7, too. [Source]]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 05:51:03 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>What We're Reading Today | China Beat</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[There are a few themes we've been tracking lately at China Beat, including growing Chinese nationalism, middle class protest, and India-China comparisons. Here are a few stories we've noticed around the web this week that address some of these issues:1....]]></description>
            <author>vr@virtualreview.org</author>
            <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:57:31 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Don't Take it for Granite that Your Countertop isn't Radioactive | TreeHugger</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[I have a lot of issues with granite countertops, the cherry on top of the McMansion sundae; they are heavy, expensive and cost a lot to ship. I have heard stories of Brazilian granite being shipped to China for cutting and then to Toronto for...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:54:01 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Alibaba’s Jack Ma Predicts Hard Times Ahead | China Vortex</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[On July 23, Jack Ma, founder and chairman of the Alibaba Group, a leading Chinese ecommerce company, published an internal email to Alibaba employees. This email found its way to Sina (h/t to Bill Bishop) and I have translated it here. 
The company is...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:53:38 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>China: Olympic blog shutdown continues | Global Voices</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[One of China&#39;s oldest blog service providers, Sohoxiaobao, has been kept shut down for a week already and looks to stay that way until the Beijing Olympics wrap up in late August.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:51:03 +0100</pubDate>
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