Cinematheque: Mulan is finally Chinese again! (and other film news)
Protest in Guangzhou: Why would you burn garbage?
Barbie Spa: For the cosmopolitan plastic beauty in you
Obama in China: Long gone, and still headlinin'
Lot o' Hotpot: Three Travellers
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"Academics who study China, which includes the author, habitually please the Chinese Communist Party, sometimes consciously, and often unconsciously. "
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"China plans to expand its use of animated police figures into a virtual force symbolizing the government's monitoring of all major Web sites and online forums, state media said Saturday."
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"The story was about some mainlanders believing that eating human fetuses can improve looks and heal diseases, and therefore they purchase dead fetuses from hospitals."
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"So let's call this nail house what it really is: blackmail."
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"Rich Karlgaard, publisher of Forbes Magazine is in China right now and blogging on it. In Karlgaard's most recent post, he asks whether Shanghai or Beijing are China's future in a post, appropriately entitled, 'China's Future: Shanghai Or Beijing?'"
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"Nearly 60 percent of saleable tickets will be reserved for residents of China, while the rest of the world will get 25 percent, said Rong Jun, director of the organising committee's ticketing department."
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"Severe pollution in the Yangtze River is threatening the existence of the Chinese sturgeon, or Acipenser sinensis, an anadromous fish that has lived on the earth for more than 140 million years."
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"However, there is something about China's video sharing sites that makes them much more interesting than their American counterparts: broadcast TV in China is really boring."
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"Tears, wild hair and unhealthy songs are banned when China's latest version of "American Idol" goes on the air next month."
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"Shanghai, China: In its relentless rush into capitalism and modernity, China's second city is currently exploding in every aspect."
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"Phantom Shanghai is a spectacular look at a Shanghai that won't survive the vision the country has for itself."
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"Children in more than 40 percent of families with one full-time parent are looked after by house husbands, a survey conducted by the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences suggests."
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We apologize to the guy we hit in the head while we were playing Wii tennis.
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"Pay starts at a measly RMB 2000 a month, and can rise up to about a base of RMB 2500 plus bonuses for kilometers driven. Take-home after tax for the year is about RMB 38,000 (USD 4,900). Benefits are pretty good, though."
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"More than half of paint products available for sale in the city have failed quality tests in recent random checks by the Shanghai Industrial and Commercial Administration."
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"China's Three Gorges Dam reservoir has been fouled by pesticides, fertilizers and sewage, and more than 600 kilometres of the Yangtze river are critically polluted, Xinhua news agency said on Sunday, citing a report."
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"Everyone, if you travel to Shanghai, definitely avoid Hong Qiao Airport on Friday night. Never ever think of landing in Hong Qiao on Friday night. There is a simple reason for that - there is just no taxi that can help you get out of the airport."
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"Now that China's showcase megacities are experiencing rising costs and fierce competition both in most sectors, foreign investors are slowly waking up to the fact that there are other cities in China besides Shanghai and Beijing."
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"The investigated data from Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences presented that more than a half wine and overseas wines in Shanghai market were fake." So then what is it?
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"The report said Shanghai's online consumers totaled 1.76 million last year, accounting for 34.6 percent of local Netizens, with Beijing following by 29.2 percent."
Photo by gguillaumee found via the Shanghaiist Contribute page.
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over 50 wounded, 33 dead at VA. State, the shooter's possible blog:
www.wanusmaximus.livejournal.com
He was supposedly dumped by his chinese girlfriend for a white guy.
Shooter is possibly from Guangdong province.
nanheyangrouchuan, i think you got the wrong nutter there
Although it is emerging the gunman may be a Chinese national ... let's see how much coverage this gets in the Chinese press.
Now they are saying the shooter was a South Korean national.
In other news, is the story about eating human fetuses based in fact? It would seem impossible . . . .
Correction, SK national but resident of US since 1992.