Week of June 14, 2009

Around Shanghai: Quarantines, green dams and other annoyances

Week Around the Ists

The TEDxShanghai talks livestream on Tudou

Another bus spontaneously combusts in Shenzhen

Shanghai Airlines passengers stage sit-in in Taiwan

MAO and Soma to join forces for a new livehouse?

Video: RC car plays Super Mario Bro.s theme

12th Shanghai International Film Festival is now rolling

Slow news day, China Daily?

Photos: Ghostface Killah mows us down at WTF Club

Today's Links: TV host accused of spying, poppy hunts, and the future of film in China

Photo of the Day: I <3 China

Chinese netizen reactions to Iranian election

Socially responsible geeks converge on Shanghai

Report: Gender inequality in the Chinese workplace

Green Dam software actually pirated?

Official-killing waitress released without punishment

One less thing to worry about for US iPhone 3G owners in China

Today's Links: Hydropower dam plans damned, artists scream me-first, and subtitlers make Prison Break watchable

Around Shanghai: Turning Shanghainese, Simply Life sales and Santana collisions

Yo! MTV Raps retrospective @ The Factory

Revamping the Shanghai night market

Green Dam plan withdrawn due to public pressure

Shanghai Rush: So long and farewell to Norma & David, Rodrigo & Fernanda

Interview: RandomK(e) brings "post-laowai" to Shanghai

The end to rampant urbanization in China?

What made Shanghai Pride so very proud?

Today's Links: Seven people you'll meet in hotel quarantine

Music Video of the Day: Jewelz & Charlie - Spacer Woman 2009

Photo of the Day: Rush hour

Shanghai Movie Night: Transformers II

Interview: Nosaj Thing

Video: Street Fighter II Bonus Stage LIVE

Jet Li is a Singaporean now?

Deputy director general is found to rape underaged girl by an online post

Movies about Shanghai: Building 173

Shanghai releases formal qualifications for earning a hukou

Volcano delaying Asia flights

Quote of the Day: Qin Gang (秦刚), Foreign Ministry spokesman

Today's Links: More on the green dam, "Buying China," and sex change guidelines

Around Shanghai: Danny Boyle and the SIFF, City Deli, and more on the US Pavilion

The Laramie Project: a hate crime depicted on stage

HIV/AIDS rates rise amongst men who have sex with men

Shanghai official downplays rivalry with Hong Kong

Live Music This Weekend: Joyside, The Mushrooms and RandomK(e)

Live Trip into Sherwood Dub Forest Tonight

Family planning now extending to dogs in Guangzhou

What's up with the Electrograss Festival? UPDATED

Interview: Safety Scissors cuts to the chase

Today's Links: Newt Gingrich comments on Uighurs while China comments on the US

Tonight: IDM Music by Length will rock and shock Shanghai