Extra! Extra! Wild boar, wrecking balls and mandated creativity

• Wild hare and boar can now be served in Shanghai restaurants. This follows the legalization of wild spotted deer earlier in the year. The Grand Hyatt in Pudong is one of the five restaurants in Shanghai that will offer the meats (if you don't count your neighborhood kebab guy who has been selling you "wild game" for years).
• Las Vegas is bracing for a Chinese invasion: "Chinese travelers love to shop and typically outspend guests from other countries."
• A city government in Hubei is forcing its staff to get drunk.
• A 19-year-old Zhejiang native was found dead in a suitcase floating in a harbor in Auckland, New Zealand.
• Howard W. French: "Many feel, though, that what Shanghai is losing is even more vital than what it will gain. Shanghai was China's first, and remains its most distinctive, experiment in modern urbanism, and conservationists say that much of what made it so special in the last century will soon fall victim to the wrecking ball."
• Mr. Hu goes to Washington.
• Old computers from the U.S., Europe and Japan often end up in China, where their toxic components can kill.
• How Google chose its Chinese name.
• Shanghai breaks ground on a new contemporary art museum amid a nationwide "museum-building frenzy."
• Chinese band The Flowers was caught plagiarizing someone else's song. The band's response? “It is normal for young people to make mistakes, which is a part of being young. As long as they can admit it, they are still good men.” And that is exactly what they teach in many Chinese universities.
• Nothing spurs creativity like government mandates: "Writers, painters, actors and other cultural workers in the city should create more and richer cultural products to meet the ever growing demand of the local people and to match the dynamic social and economic growth of the city."

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