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25 Jul 08
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Beijing News recalled from newsstands for carrying subversive picture "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... |
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25 Jul 08
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Lights out for Shanghai? 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... |
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25 Jul 08
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Olympic Security English: "Shut up so we can finish our search" 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... |
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25 Jul 08
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Prejudice: It's what's for dinner 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... |
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25 Jul 08
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Photo of the Day: I'm on the top of the world Photo by Langoustine
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25 Jul 08
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Two more quakes for Sichuan 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... |
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25 Jul 08
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Olympic terrorists arrested in Shanghai 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... |
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25 Jul 08
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Shanghai is restricting the issue of business visas ahead of the Beijing Olympics 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,... |
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25 Jul 08
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Use Firefox? Like Taobao and Dianping? Well, you might want to check out these Chinese website search plugins for your browser. Some work for IE7, too. [Source] |
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24 Jul 08
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Apple appoints Hong Kong ad agency by Dedric Lam
The tale of the Apple Computer Corporation in China has been a story of false starts, misadventure and curious competition. Like the all seeing eye of Mordor peering at China from the 3G enabled land of Hong Kong, Apple has sent its minions... |
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24 Jul 08
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Venue maps and the last round of Olympic tickets BOCOG (Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games) is giving you one more shot at getting Olympic tickets . Friday, July 25, at 9 a.m., Phase 4 tickets go on sale at box offices around Beijing. BOCOG says there are 820,000 tickets left, 250,000 of... |
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24 Jul 08
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Top stars sing for Tibet With less than 3 weeks to go before the Games, some of the most famous stars in show business are lending their voices to the latest stand on behalf of Tibet — a move that's sure to anger the Chinese government. Sting, Dave Matthews, John Mayer, Alan... |
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24 Jul 08
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What I did on my summer vaction... cosmetic surgery! According to China Daily, more and more middle and high school students are taking advantage of the summer holidays to make the kind of changes that will impress their peers come fall. But it isn’t a summer class or even a new workout routine they a... |
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24 Jul 08
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Watch, bag, DVD... Fuwa-bot? In more Olympics mascot merchandising news, look what we've just found. The perfect souvenir - a Fuwa action hero figure! But wait a minute — where's our favorite taxi driver Fuwa? Coming soon to a street corner near you. (h/t sinosplice)
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24 Jul 08
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Second quake hits Sichuan An earthquake measuring a moderate 5.5 on the Richter scale struck southwest China just before four a.m. this morning, hitting the area 48 kilometers northwest of Guangyuan that was devastated by May's massive quake. Unlike this spring's 8.0-magnitude... |
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24 Jul 08
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Beijing Olympics mascots disowned by their maker Olympics mascot merchandising is a multi-million dollar business, but since the mascots for the Beijing Olympics were announced nearly three years ago they have met with mixed reviews. A nationwide survey conducted by Nielsen Co. showed that only 60% of... |
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23 Jul 08
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Anti-terrorism exercise by the Bund Important elements for any anti-terrorism drill — great staging, great scenery and a great location where lots of people can see you. Yesterday's "terrorist" act was effectively countered by the highly efficient security forces in under an hour. |
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23 Jul 08
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Yet another Xinhua Photoshop blooper? Or a genuine case of twins? You decide...
From Xinhua via Hecaitou and ZonaEuropa
Previously on Shanghaiist
The case of the First Lady's mysterious extra legs |
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23 Jul 08
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Today's Links: Kendra Zanotto, Dashan and Tsering Woeser The state-owned asset regulators are now considering a merger of China Eastern and Shanghai Airlines, broke the Caijing magazine yesterday, saying the discussion was only among government agencies so far, while spokesmen with the two airlines pled... |
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23 Jul 08
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1600 cameras to be installed on Shanghai buses With the recent bus blasts in Kunming which claimed three lives and suspicious SMS messages to warn some residents from taking buses on the day of the explosion, the Shanghai government is taking no changes with the Olympic soccer matches being held in... |
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23 Jul 08
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China blacklists websites; "Sensitive" websites unblocked The China Internet Illegal Information Reporting Center (CIIIRC) issued its first blacklist of websites containing "harmful information" on Monday. The websites were found to be spreading "low and vulgar content," according to Danwei, and had been... |
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23 Jul 08
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First ever kidnapping case involving a foreigner heard in Shanghai "Kim Soo-seok, 44, a South Korean, is accused of abducting a young fellow countryman who studied in Shanghai in a bid to extort 300 million won (US$295,000) from the victim's wealthy father. His two alleged Chinese accomplices, Jin Mingyu and Chi Minhao,... |
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23 Jul 08
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Miracle surgery in Taiwan saves legs of Jiangsu elephantiasis patient A 24 year old woman from Jiangsu, Wang Cheng, is all smiles again after a successful operation in Taiwan on her rare condition, elephantiasis, which has hit her since the age of six and caused her legs to treble in size to about 50 kilos. Wang's condition... |
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23 Jul 08
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The Great Olympic Meltdown: Beijing hotels slash rates after foreign tourists fail to show up Unusual honesty from the Shanghai Daily which makes you wonder if they're not actually gloating:HOTELS in Beijing are slashing prices for next month's Olympics after the expected windfall of visitors failed to materialize, hotels and travel industry... |
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23 Jul 08
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China's going strong! Me, not so much. Nationalistic optimism hits its worldwide high in China, a new survey by PEW Global Attitudes Project has found. Eighty-six percent reported being happy with their county’s direction, with 82 percent positive about the national economy. These numbers ha... |
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23 Jul 08
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Photo of the Day: Sweltering Shanghai Photo by UrbanNat
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22 Jul 08
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13 rescued from mine accident in Guangxi, 36 still trapped by Dedric Lam
36 coal miners are still trapped after a mine flooded at about 3.30pm yesterday at the Nadu Mine in the Guangxi region. Rescuers have since saved 13 people after 10 hours and 12 of the 36 still trapped are in contact with rescuers and are... |
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22 Jul 08
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Escapist: Mountain biking trips outside Shanghai We were itching to get out of the city for the weekend. Every couple months, you need to escape the pollution and noise for a few days to somewhere quiet and outdoorsy, just to catch some peace and oxygen. But getting out of Shanghai can be a little... |
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22 Jul 08
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China and Russia sign border agreement Foreign ministers of China and Russia signed a treaty in Beijing on Monday ending a 40-year-long territorial dispute to finally determine their borders. The treaty addressed the eastern part of the two countries' 4,300 km-long border, with Russia... |
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22 Jul 08
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Eight "don't-asks" and other things to keep in mind when chatting with foreigners and handicapped athletes We've all seen our fair share of rules and regulations compiled for the upcoming Olympics, but Peaceful Rise translates a novel set of prescriptions for Chinese citizens' interaction with Westerners during the Games, found on a new series of posters in... |
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22 Jul 08
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Why is Anna Kournikova on the cover of SI China? Three weeks before Beijing hosts the Olympics, two weeks after Zheng Jie stormed Wimbledon, the same week that Yao Ming returned to action with the Chinese national team and Sports Illustrated China puts on its cover a tennis player who hasn’t played... |
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21 Jul 08
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One World, One Dream Interesting vid by Chris Pereira of Work in Progress [h/t to Danwei]. Wonder if he wrote the song himself? |
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21 Jul 08
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Around Shanghai: The Hongqiao Transport Hub, freak accidents, and a new sex culture research centre The ground has been broken for the new Hongqiao Transport Hub which will cover an area of 240,000 square meters and contain facilities for both high-speed and normal trains. In service before the 2010 World Expo, the hub is expected to reach an annual... |
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21 Jul 08
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Kunming bus blasts 'man-made, deliberate sabotage' The three consecutive bus explosions in Kunming, capital of Yunnan Province, and nearby Minshan that killed three people and injured 14 this morning were "cases of man-made, deliberate sabotage", according to a spokesman from the Yunnan PSB. According to... |
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21 Jul 08
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Liang Wenchong makes British Open history Liang Wenchong, a native of Guangdong province, moved one step closer to becoming a contender in international golf with his performance at the Open Championship (known in the United States as the British Open) this weekend.
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21 Jul 08
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Aide to Gordon Brown a victim of honeytrap operation by Chinese intelligence? "A top aide to Gordon Brown has been a suspected victim of a “honeytrap” operation by Chinese intelligence agents. The aide, a senior Downing Street adviser who was with the prime minister on a trip to China earlier this year, had his BlackBerry p... |
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21 Jul 08
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More on the Beijing bar ban confusion by Dedric Lam
Tom Miller of the SCMP has been the center of many heated online discussions of late as a result of his article last Friday on bar owners in Sanlitun being asked to deny service to black patrons. What looked like an attempt to add... |
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21 Jul 08
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A year after Pope's letter to Chinese Catholics, some positive developments Shanghai Scrap brought us an interesting tidbit over the weekend on the results of the Pope's landmark letter to Chinese Catholics released a year ago on June 30, 2007. The Union of Catholic Asian News (UCAN) reports that the Pope's call for... |
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21 Jul 08
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Why all the Olympic hype? The Chinese tell us what the fuss is about The Olympics mean a whole hell of a lot to China — it didn’t take a crazy guy on a bicycle to help us figure that out. But why? In this video, Chinese take a break from their daily activities to try to explain the motivations behind the Olympic madn... |
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21 Jul 08
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Photo of the Day: Street in Kaifeng Photo by elephantonabicycle
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20 Jul 08
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Soccer coached yanked three weeks before Olympics About a week after sacking men's national team coach Vladimir Petrovic and, more remarkably, three weeks before the Olympics, China removed its men's soccer (football) Olympic head coach Ratomir Dujkovic on Thursday. The Chinese Football Association (CFA)... |
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20 Jul 08
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The Chinese Gymnastics Association announces its Olympic team members Although it's not official yet, according to this Xinhua article, the following gymnasts are expected to be named to the Chinese Olympic gymnastics team next week (in ranking order):
Men: Yang Wei (杨威), Li Xiaopeng (李小鹏), Chen Yibing (陈... |
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20 Jul 08
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Big Brother arrives (with a little help from the US) With the help of U.S. defense contractors, an estimated 2 million closed circuit tv-cameras or CCTVs for short (oh the irony) will be installed over the next three years in Shenzhen. The surveillance experiment is part of the heroically named Golden... |
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19 Jul 08
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Hotel restrictions on foreigners now being enforced? Photo by centralasiatraveler
Sometimes you wonder if China will finally make up her mind, flip-flopping over wanting tourists, then keeping them out even if they have got Olympic tickets for security reasons, going even to the extent of driving foreign... |
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19 Jul 08
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Racial profiling at Shanghai's Tomorrow Square? A guest at Tomorrow Square on People's Square has alerted us to this document entitled "Safety measures for the tenants of Tomorrow Square for the Olympic period" posted in the building. The document starts off quite innocently like this:Recently, while... |
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18 Jul 08
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Google's English-language Shanghai map gets major upgrade View Larger Map
Remember when Google's English-language map of Shanghai was, save for some groovy satellite pics, pretty much blank? Remember that? You should. It was like a week ago. Anyway, thanks to a tip on our Contribute Page, we learn that the map... |
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18 Jul 08
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Wear your rubbers tonight: Typhoon Kalmaegi is headed our way You have been warned. ("Rubbers" is another term for "galoshes.") |
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18 Jul 08
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Report: Beijing bars told to ban black people during Olympics by Dedric Lam
In a couple of weeks Beijing will turn into a party town and Sanlitun is predicted to be the epicenter of the Olympic night events. The South China Morning Post has however reported that the bar owners in the area were asked to refuse... |
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18 Jul 08
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China's top 10 golf courses US-based Golf Digest magazine has released its annual list of what it considers to be the China's top ten golf courses. According to the magazine's editors, if you're looking for China's best courses, forget Shanghai, Beijing or Shenzhen – go west to t... |
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18 Jul 08
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Yao Ming back in action for China Yao Ming made his return to competition Thursday night, in China's Stankovic Cup game against Serbia, played in Hangzhou. Yao, recovering from a stress fracture in his foot, did not start and played only about 12 minutes. He scored 11 points in his first... |
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