Extra! Extra! Outsourcing pollution, Confucian holidays, and big men in wigs

• Officials in Beijing deny ing rumors that 1 million migrants would be expelled from the capital during the Olympics. However, as we mentioned earlier, 50 of the 239 schools for migrant workers have been closed down recently -- in some cases by the police, en masse. On the brighter side, those that get to remain in Beijing will have a spiffy new light-rail system by 2008 to whisk them around from place to place!
• The 8th Yunnan province Minority Games has been kinda of a mess: male athletes using wigs to dress up as women, people fighting, and athletes that only speak with donbei (northeastern) accents.
• After a recent BBC undercover investigation into illegal organ transplants in a Tianjin hospital, Chinese officials replied by sayingthere was no such thing happening.
• Beijing secretly fired lasers to disable US spy satellites. It's not a secret anymore.
• Two Chinese experts call for Confucius' birthday to be the Chinese Christmas. Other experts think that every person should read The Analects at least 100 times. Others think that's rubbish. We want to know: how many days would we get for vacation?
• The physicist Samuel CC Ting, the 1976 Nobel Prize winner in physics, said a recent lecture in Lanzhou one day in the future, China would win about 1/4 of the Nobel prizes, but as for when this might happen, he didn't know. Pretty dumb for a smart guy. We assume he's confining his prediction to Nobels in science-related fields.
• China's just one of the places that the developed world is outsourcing pollution and the related environmental costs to -- read about life in Lian Jiao, one of the shittiest places on earth (literally).
• In Shanghai, a man detained by the police for driving his motorcycle without license threatened throw a cigarette in the gas tank to show his anger.
• Shanghai is set to welcome about four million people to the city during the Golden Week.
• Sun Lunyi is the latest official to get investigated in the expanding graft probe.

Photo by 2dogs taken from the Shanghaiist Contribute page. To see your photos on our Contribute page, use Flickr and tag your photos “shanghaiist”. Or you can email your photos to photos@shanghaiist.com and they will automatically appear on our site.