Princess Di's death anniversary used to sell underwear in China
The next Shanghai Apple Store is located on Huaihai Lu
Yunnan cooperating with US conservative group on new 'abstinence education' program
Peking Uni Law Professor He Weifang: More press freedoms equal less revolt
Ask Shanghaiist: Should I be a pet foster parent/adopter?
- Rockets could lose Yao for season or more [Yahoo! Sports] "As the NBA draft approached, the grim truth about Yao Ming’s(notes) broken left foot hung like an anvil over the Houston Rockets. The fear isn’t that he’s just lost for next season, but longer. The Rockets and Yao’s reps are frightened over his future, and the concern is the most base of all: Does Yao Ming ever play again?"
- Kobe Bryant Conquers China [WSJ] "One of the great curiosities in modern sports is the Chinese people’s lavish affection for Kobe Bryant. During last year’s Beijing Olympics, he was greeted with a rapturous reception and mobbed everywhere he went. He appears in commercials and on billboards, has a popular Web site and had a reality show on Chinese television. He sells more NBA jerseys there than Yao Ming. On Tuesday in Los Angeles, the love affair will reach a new level. Not only is Mr. Bryant accepting an award from the Asia Society for his work as a “cultural ambassador,” the ceremony will be attended by Liu Peng, China’s Secretary of Sport and a member of China’s Communist Party Central Committee."
- The strange, underground world of Chinese counterfeit cigarettes [Slate Magazine] "Ringed by thickly forested mountains, illicit cigarette factories dot the countryside, carved deeply into caves, high into the hills, and even buried beneath the earth. By one tally, some 200 operations are hidden in Yunxiao, a southwestern Fujian county about twice the area of New York City. Over the last 10 years, production of counterfeit cigarettes has soared in China, jumping eightfold since 1997 to an unprecedented 400 billion cigarettes a year—enough to supply every U.S. smoker with 460 packs a year. Once famed for its bright yellow loquat fruit, Yunxiao is the trade's heartland, the source of half of China's counterfeit production."
- China’s Tiger Farms [China Environmental Law] "The BBC News’ The Green Room is running an opinion piece by Debbie Banks entitled “Earning their stripes: A thriving black market for tigers is not helped by farming the animals.” The people who work for the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), which is committed, among other things to “investigating and exposing the illegal trade in tigers and other Asian big cats,” must be among the bravest of the environmental community."
- China report: Hospital dumps 6 aborted fetuses [The Associated Press] "A hospital in central China dumped six aborted human fetuses and the bodies of two people at a construction site, state media said Friday. The fetuses, the two adult bodies and a bag containing three limbs from other people were found Tuesday by a worker at a construction site in Xiangfan, Hubei province, the China Daily newspaper reported. China has no law or regulations stipulating how to handle unclaimed bodies.."
- China raises gasoline, diesel prices [Yahoo! Finance] "The retail price of gasoline rose by 8.6 percent and that of diesel by 9.6 percent, the country's planning agency announced. It said the step, the fourth change in prices this year, was meant to allow prices to fluctuate as crude costs change."
- China bans online 'gold farming' | Software, Interrupted [CNET News] "China has unveiled the first official rule on the use of virtual currency in the trade of real goods and services to limit possible impact on the real financial system. The Chinese government also spelled out the definition of "virtual currency" for the first time, which includes prepaid cards of cybergames, according to a joint announcement from the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Commerce Friday. It said: 'The virtual currency, which is converted into real money at a certain exchange rate, will only be allowed to trade in virtual goods and services provided by its issuer, not real goods and services.'"
- Half of China’s Massive Stimulus Lending Playing with Stocks, Houses, not the Real Economy [ChinaStakes] "Maybe half of China’s enormous lending binge has not flowed as intended into the real economy. Instead, it has poured into the real estate and stock markets, or in the self-circulation of the financial system, and Chinese financial supervisors are seriously concerned over asset bubbles."
- Tibetan Monks and Nuns Turn Their Minds Toward Science [NY Times] "Tibetan monks and nuns spend their lives studying the inner world of the mind rather than the physical world of matter. Yet for one month this spring a group of 91 monastics devoted themselves to the corporeal realm of science. Instead of delving into Buddhist texts on karma and emptiness, they learned about Galileo’s law of accelerated motion, chromosomes, neurons and the Big Bang, among other far-ranging topics."
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aside from the good picks of a variety of articles around the web, I hope this "reader's digest" format won't be the only format on this site.
...I meant it'll be nice to see more articles about SH. Cheers.