Dear Slate, yes there are chocolate bars in China
Lot o' Hotpot: Three Travellers
How AIDS in China is spreading
Shanghaiist Scrabble: We have a winner!
Interview: Kerry Ann Lee, culture shock = inspiration
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"Xupu Bridge's 240 suspension cables are to have a large-scale renovation to make the bridge safer and more beautiful prior to the opening of World Expo 2010, the Shanghai Engineering Administrative Bureau has said." If no Expo, safety not an issue.
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"The list of potentially deadly products reaching the United States from China continued to grow Thursday, as an importer recalled frozen fish that may be tainted with a lethal toxin ..." Good thing we don't eat Chinese exports here in Shanghai!
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"Around the lake, several specific zones will be built such as one for vegetable picking, a rare vegetable exhibition room, a vegetable and fruit bar and children's world, the report said." We have marked our calendars.
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"But we don’t see any compelling parallels of doom at this time. China’s yuan is not in deflationary territory, like the dollar was in the late ‘90s, which helped cause the tech boom & bust."
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"Shanghai's food and drug watchdog has ordered a city-wide recall of all drugs made by three local companies who are not registered drug makers, the Labor Daily reported today."
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"A Taiwanese blogger named Sen Lin (森林) has written a tongue-in-cheek defence of Shijingshan Amusement Park. The piece is facetious, but sounds exactly like ostensibly serious arguments you hear in China every day."
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"A program will train restaurant operators how to set up no-smoking areas for the sake of people's health, the Shanghai Association on Smoking Control said yesterday." We want a Shanghai Association on Smoking Control T-shirt.
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"The article then trots out the bromide that 'China may look innovative...but observers say it's got a long way to go.' It then quotes (misquotes?) Andy Rothman at CLSA-Asia Pacific Markets, as saying 'there isn’t a single innovative Chinese company.”
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"The Yunnan provincial government has announced that there will be 'absolutely' no dams built and no mines opened in the Three Parallel Rivers area, one of the World Natural Heritage sites listed by the UNESCO."
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"Coca Cola ... has launched a program to give 100,000 sets of playing cards with AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria prevention knowledge to Chinese migrant workers. The poker cards will be handed out at railway stations and construction sites..." Smart cards.
Photo by Swiss James found via the Shanghaiist Contribute page.
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I'd love to get my hands on a pack of the AIDS awareness playing cards -- what's one the face cards? Kaposi's Sarcoma? Pseudomembranous Candidiasis? How do they represent the acute phase or the 10+/- asymptomatic years?
Really, it's not just the migrants who need them, but average Chinese is so ignorant about 性病 it's just frightening. In other parts of Asia, HIV/AIDS is a much, much more open topic and the government and NGO's do a great deal to raise public awareness. Here, it is a big secret and a taboo, especially since the government has accidentally infected so many people -- like 300,000 farmers in Henan, which is why previously, if you searched "china hiv" in Google, the search was firewalled.