Extra! Extra! Mumbai, jailed reporters and self-immolation

• Maybe our new golf course skyscraper won't be called Shanghai Hills after all. "It's like a person can't change his or her name at will without registering with the government," Liu Bo, an official with the Shanghai Urban Planning Administrative Bureau said. Although the planners would only be fined US$3,750 if they kept the name without permission.
• Watch out Terracotta Warriors -- Shanghai has plans to open its own "eighth wonder of the world" in 2010. Everyone loves a flood-gate museum.
• "Make Mumbai like Shanghai" say Indian officials. Sounds cool -- as long as they don't start using man-purses, too.
• Ching Cheong, the Hong Kong reporter jailed on spying charges, lost his appeal.
• China is canceling the debts of African countries and offering aid packages but Zambian workers are still wary of exploitative Chinese employers.
• With AIDS/HIV cases up 30 percent, something has to be done: Lanzhou decrees that all sex workers must use condoms at all times.
• Only 38.7 percent of sex workers in China use condoms, though more HIV infections result from sharing needles than from unprotected sex.
• A Tibetan activist set himself on fire outside the hotel where Hu was staying in India. Picture here.
• French lawmakers talk to Chinese lawmakers in Paris about human rights in Tibet -- while wearing "long live free Tibet" pins.
• Did you know there's a cigarette museum in Changzhou? China is planning on refurbishing 1000 museums by 2010.
• You avant-garde writers wanting to get published might want to check this out.
• Sun Xianming says that there are four generations or stages of human rights -- 1. basic freedom 2. right to survival 3. right to development and 4. the right to a harmonious society.
• A recent Shanghai survey found that 7% of respondents had experienced domestic violence and that increasing numbers of family conflicts are caused by extra-marital affairs.
• Shanghai's average yearly disposable income is 15641 yuan, the highest in the Yangtze River area.
• Pudong has won a national environmental award. Things considered include waste disposal, greenery, recycling, air quality, etc. It narrowly beat out Lanzhou in what was considered one of the tightest competitions in years.
• In Shanghai you no longer have be a CCP member to be a city official.
• Something is very wrong when the Yellow River turns red (for the second time in a month).
• What does running a pirated movie smuggling ring that traffics 10 million discs a year get you in China? Life in prison.
• If you live in America and already saved a spot in your garage for a Chery automobile, we are sorry.
• Giving new meaning to "extracurricular activities," a vocational school in Guangxi arranged for students to work as "bar girls". That's against the law.
• Government worker Ma Shanji, who claims to be China's "top blogger," has moved his blog from Sohu to Sina. Here is his old blog. And here is his new one.
• We've heard what Deborah Fallows had to say about Shanghai. Now it's her husband's turn. Early responses have been more positive.

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