Extra Extra! Chairman Miaow, Jacko and (semi) nude bloggers

• This Reuters article is strangely titled "Noel Coward's Shanghai Hotel defaced" -- what they are talking about is the "illegal" daubing of Chinese characters with red paint on the walls and windows of the Peace Hotel by the film crew of Ye Shanghai. The film crew claim that they did this with the full knowledge and cooperation of the hotel, especially since the hotel was paid for this.
• We might not have found this article on the auction of a iconic Chairman Mao portrait if we hadn't spelled Shangahi wrong in the search field. Some folks on the internet are pissed and have asked: how dare they sell "China's Mona Lisa?"
• The NBA (some basketball association in the US) is recruiting and training more abnormally tall Chinese men. One of them is a 7 foot tall 14 year old who weighs 100 pounds, which we sincerely hope is an (under) exaggeration. The kids work hard and have a real passion for the game, as evinced by this startling insight by one NBA hopeful: "Playing in the NBA is my dream, but it’s really hard because there’s lots of good players in that league."
• The Political Bureau of the something something of the Communist Party of China is recommending that China narrow the income gap between the rich and the poor. Measures proposed include the banning of illegal incomes. Good move fellas -- as Jacko said, "I'm starting with the man in the mirror."
• As if Chairman Mao wasn't rolling over in his mausoleum enough -- a stowaway cat that survived a harrowing 26-day trip from China to the UK has been nicknamed "Chairman Miaow." Speaking of dictatorial cats, have you read Andrew Davies' 2005 book on that very subject? Well, as Deng Xiaoping and Jacko later said, it don't matter if the cat is black or white -- as long as it catches mice. We're sure this kitty will make a new life for itself in England.
• Recently released information suggests that Henry Kissinger told Zhou Enlai way back in 1972 that he doesn't hate Vietnamese commies -- as long as they didn't make it look like America lost the war to them.
• A recent female bloggers beauty contest has aroused controversy after one blogger posted semi-nude pictures of herself or some curvaceous hottie resembling herself. She was disqualified, hated because she's beautiful.
• Cops in Bismarck, South Dakota, Bumble-Fuck, USA learn that Chinese has many dialects after an unintelligible fight breaks out.
• Cops in Shanghai don't have that problem -- especially when they are the ones getting beat up. Four jaywalkers, one Zhang Aihua (张爱花 or "Zhang Loves Flowers" or "Zhang the Flower of Love") among them, resisted a cop on the Xizang Lu and Jiujiang Lu intersection, shoved him around, and tried to, in a Jet Li inspired moment, poke him in the face with their umbrellas.
• The authorities are pretty good at shutting down art exhibits -- and there's more information about that here.
• The Shanghai cops seem to have a better time dealing with activists and dissidents, who always seem a bit restless in the early days of June.
• Speaking of criminals, Jacko is coming to Shanghai. A moonwalk on the Bund waterfront? Don't say we didn't call it!

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