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07 Nov 09
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This week in Shanghaiist We documented our Halloween celebration with pictures, more pictures and even a video!
We went to Origin on Taikang Lu and found their sandwiches and salads refreshing and delicious.
Then we headed over to three different places to get some soup for... |
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06 Nov 09
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Who are the top 10 foreign athletes in China? Hint: Tiger Woods is not one of them. Check out the whole list here. |
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06 Nov 09
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Shanghai Tattoo now selling Chinese indie rock CDs We know, we know. We live in a digital era so it makes sense for us to just download everything. But sometimes, there's something nice about looking through cover art and popping in a CD. No, not a vinyl. We're not THAT music snobbish. In any case,... |
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06 Nov 09
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Extra! Extra! Police and prostitutes, journalists and propaganda departments, and kids and condoms A recent prostitution bust in Henan has gotten netizens into a fury... against the police, who were videotaped interrogating a naked woman in an incredibly rough fashion. [CNNGo]
We can't get enough of stories about the Chongqing corruption trials, so... |
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06 Nov 09
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Weekendist: Cuisine festivals, creativity workshops, charities and more! We've got a pretty awesome weekend ahead of us. Even if you're not going to one of the many music parties planned for tonight (which you can check out in our midweek music preview), there's still a lot more going on. For instance...
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06 Nov 09
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Olympic condoms are faster, higher, stronger Attention, all y’all who want to capture some of that Olympic vitality: 5,000 official condoms distributed to athletes during the Beijing Olympics are finding their way to the auction block November 29 for…ahem…hard core collectors. The... |
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06 Nov 09
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Ministry of Health responds to internet addiction claims, buries head in sand China’s Ministry of Health recently denied the existence of so-called ‘internet addiction’ as a problem for Chinese youth. You heard correctly- the ‘land of a thousand internet-addiction camps’ is apparently conflicted over... |
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06 Nov 09
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Shanghai Corporate Pavilion photo competition's October winners Photos are Bath Time by Elke Martini and World Expo Construction (世博建筑) by Yilong Design
Month three of the Shanghai Corporate Pavilion photo competition has just been completed and the newest winners have been announc... |
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06 Nov 09
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Around Shanghai: Malones, martinis and Moreno! Malone's has written in to tell us that in the 15 years (count 'em!) they've been in Shanghai, they've sold a whopping 750,000 burgers. That's a lot of meat! Congratulations, Malone's, from all our deliciously clogged expat hearts.
Six of the best... |
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06 Nov 09
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Interview: Eliot Lipp talks electro With everything that's going on tonight, FREE the WAX has got one more gig vying for your attention featuring American electro-cinematic producer maestro Eliot Lipp who is best known for his seamless weaving of 80s electro, 70s jazz-fusion and Bay Area... |
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06 Nov 09
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Photo of the Day: Opinions on disability pensions Photo by 2_dogs
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06 Nov 09
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The saga of erotic audio fiction series "Night Talk" Did you know there used to be an erotic audio book website based out of Shanghai that was immensely popular? We didn’t until we heard about its court case - where the site was shut down and the main female voice actress was sentenced to two years in... |
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05 Nov 09
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Extra! Extra! Bird's Nest bills, home improvement extortion letters, and the Chongqing corruption trials In an effort to plug the gaping money hole the Bird’s Nest stadium has turned into after the Olympics, CITIC Investment Holdings has given up its management rights to the Chinese government. We wonder what’ll happen if even the government... |
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05 Nov 09
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...and the winners of the Toxic Avengers tickets are: Anke Stockburger and Han Fei, who were the first people who emailed us about free tickets. Thanks! Your names will be on the guest list - just show up and enjoy the show! As for the rest of you who emailed in, we highly recommend you come anyway. The... |
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05 Nov 09
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Ding Hui: Still Chinese, still black, still playing volleyball The past couple of days, traffic to China Sports Today from people searching for "Ding Hui" has seen a little uptick. Could it be a coincidence that a recent story in The Guardian said that Ding Hui, the Chinese national volleyball team's first black... |
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05 Nov 09
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We're kind of a big deal Or so it would seem from CNNGo’s most recent Shanghai Hot List of 20 people you should watch. Both former and current editors, Kenneth Tan and Elaine Chow, made it to the rankings, which also include such Shanghai notables as the founder of... |
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05 Nov 09
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Speaking of Shanghai Disneyland Woah Mickey, now that Shanghai Disneyland finally seems to have gotten all its papers in order, it seems like everyone can’t stop gabbering on about it (for instance, has anyone else noticed that Shanghai Daily has kind of turned into Shanghai... |
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05 Nov 09
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No Sharks for Yao Ming Oh no, it looks like Yao Ming hasn’t bought the Shanghai Sharks after all. Instead, all they’ve signed on to be is an “entrusted investor” for the next five years. Despite agreeing in July to transfer stakes in the Sharks to Yao,... |
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05 Nov 09
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Threesday: Healthy eating for the sick souls in Shanghai In our ongoing Threesday feature, Shanghaiist takes the time to count out three of well... whatever catches their fancy that week. This week: Places to get that warm bowl of healthy something now that flu season is upon us.
Blame it on the cold weather... |
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05 Nov 09
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Obama's half-brother writes semi-fiction book about abusive dad U.S. President Barack Obama’s China-residing half-brother, Mark Okoth Obama Ndesandjo, has now launched his first novel, “Nairobi to Shenzhen.” in Guangdong province. The book is “semi-autobiographial” and about his life... |
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05 Nov 09
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Shanghai mayor warns against abusing VIP driving privileges Hey VIPs! Just because you’re VIPs doesn’t mean you get to drive all willy nilly on the road, despite there actually being regulations that allow you to do so. Shanghai mayor Han Zheng has warned government officials and emergency vehicles to... |
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05 Nov 09
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China's Top 25 in Fashion Our knowledge of fashion extends to figuring out when H&M is having a sale so we've left it up to That's Magazine to shower us with the top 25 you should keep an eye on in the China fashion sphere. While we raised a finely groomed eyebrow at some of their... |
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05 Nov 09
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Photo Essay: Wedded to the Sea ... |
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05 Nov 09
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Photo of the Day: Nothing but blue skies do I see Photo by dbmboise
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04 Nov 09
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Midweek Music Preview: Nov 4 ~ Nov 8 Shanghaiist lists all the live music performances you might want to check out from Wednesday to Sunday this week. For fun things that aren't live music, take a peek at our Pencil This In (out every Monday!)
But first! An announcement to make. One of the... |
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04 Nov 09
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Syphilis boom fueled by richer migrant workers The Chinese economy boom has helped increase numbers of both great and not-so-great things. On one hand, you've got rising literacy rates, development and internet penetration. On the other hand, you also get more pollution, city overcrowding and...... |
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04 Nov 09
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Google Pollution Maps of China A blogger out of Fujian has compiled an open-source google map that places major pollution sites around china. While similar sources have existed in the past, this is the first one that allows other users to contribute sites with pollution problems. The... |
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04 Nov 09
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Wednesday WTF: What is it with kids and smoking? We thought we'd seen the last of babies taking drags off ciggs with the first video, but nope.
This video was uploaded by someone who said he filmed it on National Day. In Guizhou, a couple of migrant workers bragged about how their baby (the fourth son... |
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04 Nov 09
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Golf masters... or Chinese Chess masters? The HSBC Masters tournament is starting up tomorrow, and today, the big players were on the China publicity warpath by doing their mandatory "Look at us! We're taking part in Chinese culture!" bit. The part of Shanghaiist that's actually interested in... |
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04 Nov 09
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Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew pisses off Chinese netizens Screenshot from a video released by the White House While his son, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has been busy meeting up with former US President George Bush, Singapore's ever so feisty and sprightly 86 year old Minister Mentor1 Lee Kuan Yew has gone... |
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04 Nov 09
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Counterfeit money crackdown uncovers over 1 Billion RMB Police have succeeded in breaking records for confiscating more counterfeit money than ever before. Since the crackdown was announced in January, over 280 people have been arrested, 190 cases involving counterfeit money have been cracked, and over 1... |
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04 Nov 09
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Shanghai Disneyland: Ministry sanctions and land acquisions After years of back and forth, it looks like Shanghai Disneyland has been given the go-ahead. According to news sources, the Shanghai Municipal Government Informatin offices announced the deal's approval early this morning. While details still have to be... |
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04 Nov 09
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Around Shanghai: Yabi, sailors and robots galore! We've found a mascot uglier than Haibao: Yabi, who represents the 2010 Taipei International Flora Expo. And the two of them standing together kind of looks like a turd floating in water. [CRI English]
Hellooooo sailor, Fleet Week's here - U.S. Coast... |
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04 Nov 09
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Photo of the Day: Nearing completion Photo by Jakob Montrasio
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03 Nov 09
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Nien Cheng, Life and Death in Shanghai author, passes away Nien Cheng (鄭念), author, has passed away in Washington D.C., according to the Washington Post. The 94-year-old former KMT diplomat is best known for her bestselling autobiography Life and Death in Shanghai, which chronicled the six-and-a-half years... |
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03 Nov 09
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China finds yet another way to frustrate WoW players According to a statement released by Netease earlier today, the General Administration of Press and Publication has suspended government approval for their operating World of Warcraft. As if WoW players didn't have enough problems earlier this year, the... |
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03 Nov 09
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Extra! Extra! Giant Maos, Taiwanese gay parades, and more internet controls? Changsha sculptors are carving a giant 100-foot-tall statue of Mao ZeDong out of granite, but many are complaining it doesn't look like Mao. Netizens say it reminds them of the Sphinx while one British paper has drawn a comparison to Lord Byron.... |
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03 Nov 09
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Google Voice Search now in China, in Mandarin If you've got a Nokia S60 series and happen to speak Chinese, you can now use Google voice search on your mobile in China. The new service, the first non-English voice search Google has released, is one of many recent attempts to wrestle some more of the... |
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03 Nov 09
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Video: Halloween 2009 Zombie Walk We're still bummed out that Halloween is over, so we figured we'd stretch out the mystique of the holiday by featuring this video, shot by contributor Jeremy Breningstall, of what our terrorizing on the Zombie Walk actually looked like.
For perusal of... |
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03 Nov 09
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Chinese lottery winners or....superheros?!? This is probably one of our favorite Chinese traditions so far: apparently lottery winners, in order to conceal their identities from the populous, dress up in costumes when receiving their fake oversized media checks. This has been going on for a while,... |
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03 Nov 09
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Cold Front almost over already Shanghaiist has spent the past few days bundled up inside to avoid the |
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03 Nov 09
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Shanghai's top eight scenic spots: It's official With the Expo approaching, Shanghai is quickly become more and more official, with roads being paved, mandatory uniforms for taxi drivers, and even rules guiding citizens' subway etiquette, just to name a few of the changes. To keep the changes rolling,... |
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03 Nov 09
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Origin: Fresh fare on Taikang lu We've all been there - all you want is a salad and just don't want to make one yourself. And then maybe you do, and it doesn't taste the way you want it to. Total bummer. Well, next time this situation arises, we've found at least one good place to get a... |
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03 Nov 09
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How to address the problem of black taxis? How do you effectively carry out the "remediation of civilization?" was a serious question at yesterday's Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) in Shanghai. We've got a couple ideas, but what Han Zheng and his consorts were trying to... |
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03 Nov 09
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Photo of the Day: Given the slip Photo by Slow Boat to China
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03 Nov 09
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A city-wide epidemic of unsatisfying lunches White collar workers in Shanghai have expressed increasing dissatisfaction with the lunch options offered at moderately-priced restaurants around the city.
Alibaba reports:
A survey of 30,000 professionals in downtown Shanghai, conducted recently by... |
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02 Nov 09
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Photos: Shanghaiist Halloween Party 2009 @ Not Me Here are the rest of the photos (if you're... |
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02 Nov 09
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Good thing to know: Liu Xiang hates sneak hug attacks ...As Liu Xiang's Shanghai teammate, Zhang Chong, found out when he got a little too overexcited by a good finish at the National Games and tried to convey that with a little man-on-man touching. According to China Hush:
On the night of the incident, at... |
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02 Nov 09
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Extra! Extra! Man-made snow, reeducation camps, and the TVCC tower Photo from gadgetdan
Beijing had its earliest snowfall in a decade and - of course - it was because the Weather Modification Office decided to work its magic again, spraying clouds with 186 doses of silver iodide. It was to ease drought. [BBC]
While... |
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02 Nov 09
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Shanghai's chilling out Brrr, did it get chilly over here or what? While Saturday's Halloween night was still unseasonably warm, it seems like someone flipped a switch on November 1, causing the city's temperature to drop a good 10 degrees. Today, it dropped another six, with... |
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