zhwu

Thu, 15 Jun 2006 22:50:38 +0800

I doubt why I can't find anything related to this SCO Summit in Shanghai on US major media websites, like CNN, Washingtonpost, NYT...?

Dan

Fri, 09 Jun 2006 18:50:05 +0800

From a reader: You know about the s o c summit right? If you live in pudong you do. From the 13th to the 16th (or at least for the 14th and 15th) traffic will be messed up and schools closed. I don't know about businesses, guess not, the mighty yuan bows to no-one, not even hu jin tao. I'm an australian living three blocks from the summit site (Shanghai government building) and this morining I got a notice(without a stamp/seal, I guess deniability is desirable) under my door in chinese and english that said, among other things: I must - -"decrease going outside" - -close doors and windows when I'm told to - -not hang clothes on the balcony (actually the chinese side said that, english only said dont hang clothes out the window) Every apartment around here got the same afaik. And another reader sent this: Seems this upcoming (Shanghai Co-operation Organization) SCO meeting is already causing chaos, offices are being told to close over those few days, my girlfriend’s serviced office near Nan Jing Dong Lu is shutting for 3 days, meaning businesses are potentially looking at a loss of 3 day’s revenue. Worse still, people are being kicked out of their homes. Well, kind of. My expat colleague is living in the New Harbor serviced apartments near Yan An Lu. He received a letter from the management company telling him that no-one facing the direction of Times Square, from the 6th floor upwards, is allowed into their apartment between 4pm and 11pm on the Weds 14 & Thursday 15 June. The letter offers him the following options: 1) Free soft drinks in the apartment blocks breakfast bar 2) Stay somewhere other than New Harbour Is it right that the local government can mandate this kind of upheaval, on what grounds, security? Is this SCO meeting attempting to bring future revenue to the city? At what cost over those few days? Thanks, guys. Readers, keep the emails coming: tips at shanghaiist.com

Shanghaiist: What have you been told to do during the SCO Summit?

zhwu

Dan