Around Shanghai: Protesting high rises, mobile phone comics and a big ol' auto show
- Wealthy people in high-rises are publicly protesting Shanghai Film Group President Ren Zhonglun's plans to build more high-rises. Good on them? [Shanghai Scrap]
- Shanghai-based Nial O'Connor talks about his new comic “Jing Squared” (晶²), which will be available in mid-2009 and is designed specifically for viewing on mobile phones. [56minusone]
- A man reflects on his days as a 22-year-old student in Shanghai during the 1989 student movement. [Fool's Mountain]
- The Shanghai Auto Show is revving up its engines on Monday, the day after F1 ends. Anybody thinking of going? You know who's not? GM CEO Fritz Henderson. [LA Times]
- The city's now had its first case of a foot-and-mouth disease casualty since the beginning of the year, after a 29-month-old died on Friday in a Shanghai hospital. [Xinhua]
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