Extra! Extra! Smoking bans, model citizens and Buicks

• Where is the Polar Research Institute of China headquartered? Shanghai, of course.
• Scotland has banned smoking in bars and restaurants, becoming the first British nation to make such a move. Hong Kong hopes to have all of its restaurants smoke-free sometime in 2007. Could Shanghai be far behind? Um, yes. Very far.
• Why Stephen King doesn't sell well in China.
• China's latest morality drive: Be a model citizen ... and get your tennis racket strung for free.
• Does China need 200 Warner Bros. retail stores? Warner Bros. thinks so.
• A question that's always bugged us: Why are Buicks so respected in China?
• ESWN translates a Massage Milk post: You can't keep a Super Girl down!

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