Extra! Extra! Dark dinners, climate change and (no) incest

• Beijing retailers told to mind their manners with customers or be found violation of the law.
• Beijing has opened what we believe to be China's first pitch-black restaurant—where diners eat in complete darkness and the staff use night vision goggles.
• 300 new bao mu's are being trained for deployment during the Chinese New Year, when many of the city's bao mu's are heading home.
• Was it climage change that brought down the Tang dynasty?
• A Shanghai production of the play 《雷雨》Lei Yu, which will be performed later this month, is going take out the part about incest, which arguably is one of the main features of the play. This is the play that Zhang Yimou's Curse of the Golden Flower is based on.
• Everyone wants a piece of the booming Chinese art market.
• A Chinese diplomat in South Korea refused to take a breathalyzer test for driving under the influence of alcohol and locked himself and other passengers in his car for eight hours.
• Jackie Chan is announcing plans to make 10 films (by other people) in mainland China through his new film company.
• In 2006, China welcomed 30 baby pandas into the world setting a new record for the number of pandas bred in captivity.
• Speaking of panda booms, China is also experiencing a billionaire boom. Mostly bloggers, we presume.
• Will China begin instituting a smoking ban in medical and educational institutions in the run-up to the smoke free Olympics? Revisions to the regulations are now underway.
• Check out the story of a British man that devoted 10 years of his life to mastering Beijing Opera.
• They are working on preserving Ming dynasty corpses at a Shanghai museum. But construction crews aren't cooperating.

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