Today's Links: Paraplegia, porn, and Shanghai punks

• Designer Tang Pushes Fashion in China
  David Tang is famous for founding the Shanghai Tang label that put Mandarin-collared shirts, cheongsam dresses and other Chinese-style fashion on boutique shelves from New York to Paris.
• Booming stock market cures man's paraplegia
  Not only can the man walk to the nearest brokerage in 20 minutes, he made 60% profits on his returns from the market.
• Entrance at Nanjing Road E. Station to be closed
  Not the whole station, just one of the entrances.
• Self-harm gang jailed over construction scam
  The gang of men helped break each other's arms in order to extort money to the tune of 100,000 RMB.
• China Sentences Former Drug Regulator to Death
  The former head of China’s top food and drug safety agency was sentenced to death today after pleading guilty to corruption and accepting bribes, according to the state-controlled news media.
• EU presses China on trade gap
  The European Union urged China on Monday to open its markets to help redress a "huge" trade surplus with the bloc and called on it to ratify a key rights covenant.
• One battle China's online censors can't win
  And that's the battle against porn. There are just too many smut sites out there for the nanny to handle.
• "The Shanghai punks send their love."
  Thurston Moore at Coachella. Just found this quote while doing a Google News search for "shanghai car horn." Don't ask.

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