Extra, Extra! Giant jellyfish, antispy training, and NBA stars

• NBA stars grace the "Basketball Without Borders" training camp for teens in Shanghai.
• Japanese government drastically ups the number of diplomats to receive "antispy" training, citing the suicide of a Japanese diplomat in Shanghai. Does this training include how to resist getting turned on by "sexy women" and not falling for "honey traps?" Sign us up!
• China's first genuine e-book was released on June 8. Sixty percent of Chinese readers get their books in some form online.
• Shanghai-Hangzhou maglev talks between Germany and China have been stalled.
• June 10 was China's first cultural heritage day, and more Shanghai buildings added to the official list of protected architecture (in Chinese).
• An elephant killed its trainer at a local zoo -- with its trunk.
• That "Official Shanghai Government" version of Windows XP you have -- that's pirated, too.
• Why Japan and China will never be friends: The Three Gorges Dam is being blamed for a surge in the population of giant jellyfish off the coast of Japan. Their fishermen are pissed.
• One of the perks of having 5,000 years of glorious history means that you can find musical chimes in Chengdu dating from 3,000 years ago and claim it as part of your history.
• World Cup gambling in China -- no internet, no problem. SMS and phones work fine.
• Google is working in China again after being closed down earlier in the week. They say it had to with the 17th anniversary of something or another. Oh well. No one really thinks back that far anyway!

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