Extra! Extra! Gay chats, hot heat and Rape of Nanking the movie

• August 13 set a record as the hottest day all summer: 38.6 degrees.
• Beijing University's EMBA program is so popular and profitable that they're bringing the show to Chongqing. Aimed at execs and entreprenuers in that region, the cost comes out to about 1,250 RMB per day. However, since one of the conditions of enrollment is that your business has to have a net worth in excess of 50 million RMB, these are people that can afford it, and yes, people who didn't meet that requirement were rejected.
• There's a factory in Shanghai where 77 percent of the employees are in some way disabled, most of them being deaf. They are paid the same wages as the other folks, but in many cases are more efficient workers -- the regular folks can put in 10 screws in 42 seconds, whereas some of the deaf workers can do 18 in the same amount of time! Not sure why.
• Chinese laws tell us what the proper uses of the national flag are, and they do not include wrapping up lion statues outside restaurants. Apparently, there's a belief that the two lions will bring you good luck and drive away evil, but that you have to wrap them up in something red. Using the national flag in this manner might very well be illegal.
• Via Asiapundit.com, a wry, not sure whether to laugh or cry chronicle of an American man's several weeks in America with his Chinese in-laws.
• Don't look now, but here comes Chongqing: Probably the only place in China that puts on nude modeling contests.
• A film about the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, based on the late Iris Chang's The Rape of Nanking, is going to be made this coming year, with expected release dates in China of late 2007 and 2008 worldwide.
• Wang Chengming is the third among executives at Shanghai Electric Group to be investigated for corruption.
• The rumors about relocation plans for the people living on what will become Disneyland Shanghai are false, say Pudong officials.
• A disease control center in Beijing has opened the country's first officially sanctioned online gay chatroom.
• A manmande beach is going to be built in the North Bund in order to welcome the Gotheborg, the Swedish ship that docked in Guangzhou last month with the Swedish royals aboard.

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