Extra! Extra! Scandal exposes, special snakes, and evil PowerPoints

• Shanghai's largest shopping mall is linked to the pension fund scandal.
• The long awaited parity of the HK Dollar and the RMB was a typo?!
• Shanghai Wenguang Media group is helping release the film Men (《门》) simultaneously in the theaters and on the internet and mobile devices.
• Bored during the holidays? Grab one of the hot selling books on Chen Liangyu and the pension fund scandal.
• China's military white paper says: no arms race.
• Shanghai's energy white paper: 20% energy savings by 2010.
• Google is going to invest in the Shenzhen video sharing website Xunlei.
• Rupert Murdoch sends Empress Wendy to see if they can't set up a Chinese version of Myspace.
• Chinese Democrat Liang Yumin commits suicide.
• Dire warnings from the first Chinese climate change report -- as if we were expecting good news.
• Chinese snakes can predict earthquakes!
• Chinese hackers created an evil Christmas Powerpoint presentation. This is a present you don't want to open.
• Desperate internet users that have resorted to using proxy servers to access foreign websites and IM services ought to be aware that hackers are out there, waiting to pounce.
• Four new stations on the western end of Metro Line 2 this weekend!
• Eight lines total (three more than now) by the end of next year—and better yet, a road to Chongming Island?

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