This week in Shanghaiist
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"The anti-pet brigade, angered over noise and mess from domestic cats and dogs, is lobbying the authorities for tougher restrictions on pet ownership, as the number of people keeping them without a license increases."
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"FedEx's domestic China service will flow from its hub at Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport in east China's Zhejiang province. ... Domestic carrier Okay Airways will provide air transportation, using three Boeing 737 jets." Okay!
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"A group of Chinese reporters came up with a novel idea to test how greedy local hospitals were -- pass off tea as urine samples and submit the drink for tests."
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"The typical Chinese restaurant menu is a sea of nutritional no-nos, a consumer group has found. A plate of General Tso's chicken, for example, is loaded with about 40 percent more sodium and more than half the calories an average adult needs for an entire day."
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"A Chinese man bought carry-on wine and spirits worth a record 23,000 euros (15,600 pounds) at Paris airport's duty-free shop -- including a bottle of 1806 cognac that might have slipped through the fingers of Emperor Napoleon."
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"The Los Angeles Lakers' star has the top-selling jersey there, while sales of Yao Ming's jersey in his home country continue to fall, according to results released by the NBA on Tuesday."
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"FedEx will launch the next-business-day domestic express service May 28, with time-definite service to 19 cities and day-definite service to more than 200 cities across the country, the company said."
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"A dean at one of China's most prestigious universities has been fired after criticizing the school's administration on his blog."
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"Police in Hong Kong are investigating an elaborate device found embedded in the turf at a world-famous horse track apparently designed to shoot poison darts at the animals at the start of a race."
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"Although it has been in operation for less than two years, Aoyou.com, a joint venture between China Youth Travel and Travelport, has reportedly suffered a loss of RMB60 million."
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"Following the recent one yuan .CN domain name promotion in China, it has now turned its eyes to teenagers in China and is advocating them to use the .CN domain names."
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"Oceanographers yesterday dismissed claims by a British journalist that rising tides will engulf Shanghai, Tianjin and other coastal cities by 2050."
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"The average age gap between Shanghai women and their foreign husbands is 10.5, and 13 percent of the foreign husbands are 20 years older than their local brides, the report said."
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"When the city's first sex hotline for the middle-aged and elderly opened in August, operators quickly found out that many of their callers' biggest problem was loneliness."
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"While the local media could not publish about the most famous house in Chongqing, the stories kept on spreading on the internet, often hardly based on any facts. But that forced national media like CCTV to bring the story and Venture160 did a great job in translating the interview."
Photo by jules_shanghai found via the Shanghaiist Contribute page.
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i don't know about these people who slaughter pets
but just speaking for myself, i find it just a bit difficult to kill a cuddly, helpless little dog, especially considering there might be someone out there with deep emotional attachments to the dog...
maybe not all of us are born with the same amount of humanity? i mean i can't speak for other people, but perhaps there are some things i feel for that other people just aren't capable of feeling?
Tony, don't flatter yourself.
Of course you think you have more "humanity" than an official who's job is to carry out strict rules. If you were in that person's place, your level of "humanity" would probably drop too.
um...okay...and yours wouldn't?
Humans kill animals routinely for food, clothes, decoration... Unless you are an anti leather vegetarian, it is hard for you to lecture the rest of us on the topic of humanity when it comes to killing helpless animals. Dogs are cute. I love cats even more. However, if people are not responsible pet owners and their pets affect the health of humans that come in contact with the pets, are we supposed to just do nothing? I am sure the chickens and ducks they slaughter routinely for fear of bird flu are cute too, and some people keep them as pets (obviously against regulation in urban areas). Would you advocate the do nothing approach in that case?
It is terrible to see dogs and cats being killed. It is a terrible short term solution to the problems many other countries face as well, though I don't think Americans could ever stomach that kind of solution. Long term solutions will have to include vaccinations, alteration, and some publicly funded shelters. If pet owners are more responsible, there will perhaps be less homeless and disease prone pets and as a result the official reactions to the problem won't be as drastic as this.
Nicely said, Tony. Ignore Lily.
"Shanghai women and their foreign husbands"
What about Shanghai men and their foreign wives? Does it ever happen?
Lily, i won't deny that things do get a bit harder if you're put on the spot as an official
but overall, that "i'm just an official following strict rules" argument is a really lame one, one that i believe I've heard during the Nuremberg trials.
You were at the Nuremberg trials?
I've seen so many stories about these 1 kuai domain names, but everywhere I try to register one wants to charge me 100RMB/year or more. Does anyone know where I can find them at the official price?
Changing subject to foreign-Chinese marriages, I wonder what the equivalent statistics are for Chinese-Chinese weddings. I wouldn't be surprised if that one showed a fair few years average age difference as well.
You must have misunderstood me.
Of course I think that killing pets for no reason is wrong, and I'm fully against what these officials are doing. However, saying that you were born with more "humanity" than someone else is just plain ignorant and arrogant.