Around Shanghai: Xintiandi gripes, Lost Heaven Bund edition opens, and organ donor stories!

Someone has taken issue with the thug guards at Xintiandi, which allegedly harassed not only a poor kuadi delivery guy who had his bike stolen, but also a group of Taiwanese kids just looking for a place to sit. [Access Asia]
Lost Heaven just had the grand opening for their massive four-story Bund location. Urbanatomy's I Love Shanghai blog was there to check it out. [Urbanatomy]
Shanghai has started selling World Expo-themed welfare lottery tickets, with a top prize of 300,000RMB. All profits will be donated to the earthquake-affected areas of Sichuan. [Xinhua]
Delta will start offering nonstop flights between Detroit and Shanghai this fall in an effort to make the Detroit Metro Airport a gateway to Asia.[Freep]
Shanghai's among 10 municipalities and provinces that will be in a pilot program designed to better manage organ donations. [Shanghai Daily]
Speaking of which, this girl just signed up to become an organ donor because she's unemployed. From the comments, it almost looks like she's selling her organs while she's still alive... Is that how it works here? [Chinasmack]
People are protesting the high-speed rail link between Shanghai and Hangzhou. It seems that people in the Xihuan suburb feel the trains run too close to their apartments. [AP]

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