Around Shanghai: Pirated wolverines, cultural relics saved from demolition, and the Australian pavilion

Shanghai Scrap shows solidarity with Fox News's Roger Friedman by buying a copy of that leaked yet-to-be-released summer blockbuster, X-Men Origins: Wolverine. [Shanghai Scrap]
He's not the first to do so either. Lost Laowai had already scooped up a fake DVD copy just days after the leak... and then took the time to school a fenqing on the differences between piracy and those looted relic heads. [Lost Laowai]
Not quitting the new battle for currency supremacy, China is moving to globalize the yuan and promote it overseas - and Shanghai gets to be the command central. [LA Times]
A cluster of old buildings first constructed in the Qing Dynasty are saved from urban demolition after a national survey of cultural relics finds that many exist in there. They're located in the Chenhang area in Minhang. [Xinhua]
It looks like the auto industry here is still doing okay (comparatively): German auto parts maker Continental AG has opened a new technology center in Jiading to lure more Chinese auto makers. [China Business News]
Australia becomes the first national pavilion to finish their foundation works for the World Expo 2010. The project is allegedly the largest investment Australia has made in a world expo ever, and probably won't do much back home to stifle complaints that Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is a suck up to China. [Xinhua]

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