This week in Shanghaiist
- “Zhejiang University Girl” Exposed By Human Flesh Search [Chinasmack] "On the evening of April 11th, through the human flesh search of netizens, the person who concocted “Zhejiang University Girl” came forward to apologize. The netizen passing as Zhejiang University Girl is “河谷渔风” ["He Gu Yu Feng"], from Jinhua in Zhejiang province, a male, born 1976 December 17. He admitted “Zhejiang University Girl” was fabricated. Reporters contacted and interviewed “河谷渔风”. “Writing this post was simply a fenqing vent. In the beginning it was posted on Tianya, there was no intention to target Zhejiang University, and even less to point at Professor Zheng Qiang.”"
- After Olympics, national spirit soars while human rights lag [USATODAY] "Not everyone agrees the billions spent on hosting the Summer Games was worthwhile. "I hoped the Olympic Games could improve my life, but they only brought disaster," says Zhang Wei, whose home was demolished in 2006 to make way for an Olympic makeover project just south of Tiananmen Square. She applied for a permit to protest but instead was sent to detention for a month. "The police told me it was because I told the truth about the demolition of my property to journalists," she says."
- Will Ditching The9 Help World Of Warcraft Get Past Chinese Censors? [Business Insider] "Starting in June, NetEase (NTES) will get exclusive operating rights to run the game in mainland China, replacing Blizzard's longtime partner The9 (NCTY), according to reports in Chinese media. Hopefully a new partner will help Blizzard through what's been a difficult period in its relations with the Chinese government. Blizz's latest Warcraft expansion, Wrath of the Lich King, still isn't on sale in China."
- China 1Q Economic Slowdown May Signal Worst Is Over [Dow Jones] "China said first-quarter gross domestic product rose 6.1% from a year earlier, its worst quarterly economic growth in nearly two decades. Other fresh data, however, hinted that the deepest part of the downturn may have passed amid a huge wave of government spending. The data issued Thursday prompted heady calls from some economists declaring outright recovery in the world's third-largest economy. Beijing itself struck a more cautious note."
- China's navy to build new ships, planes [AP] "China's navy will move faster to build large combat warships, next-generation aircraft and sophisticated torpedoes in a modernizing overhaul for fighting in an era of information technology, its commander in chief said. Sophisticated weapons are key to winning a regional sea battle, Adm. Wu Shengli told the official Xinhua News Agency late Thursday."
- China's wrongly diagnosed HIV carrier takes health authorities to court [Xinhua] "A man in northwest China's Shaanxi Province has taken three health authorities to court for wrongly diagnosing him as a HIV carrier, court authorities confirmed Thursday. Feng Zhanqiang, 33, is demanding 140,000 yuan (20,000 U.S. dollars) in compensation, said a spokesman with the Beilin District Court in Xi'an, the provincial capital. "
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