Extra! Extra! Kim Jong Il (again), holiday crowds and lots of bling

Kim Jong Il visits Shanghai! Or maybe not.
A 19.305-carat diamond is expected to fetch US$1.25 million at a Shanghai auction January 16, making all men in Shanghai look cheap.
Katie bar the door! Ten million visitors headed to Shanghai for Spring Festival.
Bird flu (remember that?) kills two more humans in China.
The Shanghai Road Directory has 447 pages and costs 150 yuan. It's available in Chinese now, with an English version due in 2009.
Print is dead. Shenzhen unveils China's first mobile phone newspaper.
Say it ain't so -- do Chinese websites lie about their traffic?
Shanghai loses one of its pro soccer teams.

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