Results tagged “international”

The Shanghai Daily recently ran a story about a privately-owned drug rehab center in the city: more ›

Ever since Matrix: Revolutions in 2003, select Hollywood blockbusters have been released simultaneously worldwide in an effort to combat the DVD guy on the corner, whose suitcase fills magically on opening night. Star Wars III? Got it. Mr. and Mrs. Smith? Got it. Sure, the frame rate can't keep up with the action, and the camera man, having sat too close to the screen, has to pan a little to see each side of a conversation. But hey, it's 8 kuai. (Or 7, depending on where you shop.) more ›

Braunschweig. For many of you, thinking of the quiet town of Braunschweig, Germany brings to mind two things: lederhosen and schnitzel. On the streets of cities all over the world, youth who claim 街头文化 (jietou wenhua or "street culture") repeat the word “Braunschweig” like some ancient mantra. The reason? The German city plays host to the annual Battle of the Year (BOTY), in which the world's finest hip hop dance crews compete for the respect of their peers and new razors from the competition's sponsor, Braun. For any breakdancer, a trip to Braunschweig to compete in the BOTY would be akin to Ralphie finding a Red Rider B.B. Gun on Christmas morning. more ›

Out of 210,00 proposed slogans for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, this is the best the event's organizers could come up with: "One World, One Dream." The slogan was announced Sunday during a nationally televised extravaganza at Beijing's Workers Stadium that featured "breakdancers, basketball players performing with a military band, and television celebrities," according to the Associated Press. The slogan replaced the previous "New Beijing, Great Olympics" and, according to state news service Xinhua was decided upon only after many rounds of "selection and revision by experts in fields like Olympics, sociology, sports, culture and language." more ›

Today is International Anti-Drugs Day, and China started the festivities two days early. China celebrated like only China can on Friday -- by executing lots and lots of criminals. (China executed some 5,000 people last year -- more than 91 percent of the world total -- and those are are just the executions we know about.) more ›

Some guy named Paul Oakenfold (Paul Oakenfield according to page E04 of the current issue of City Weekend) is in town today and Shanghai's netizens seem to be talking about it. Paul is a DJ. A very famous one. And he will be doing what he does tonight at Club DKD. When? "Late." How much? 180 RMB at the door. The show is being presented by the "Cool DJ Agency" -- so it's guaranteed to be good. more ›

McDonald's has bowed to pressure, pulling from the airwaves in Shanghai and several other Chinese cities a televison advertisement the Chinese state media called "insulting." The ad featured a Chinese man kneeling before an electronics salesman, begging for a discount because his coupon had expired. No begging is necessary at McDonald's, the ad said, because coupons there are good for a year. (Danwei.org has the ad's translated script.) more ›

If the internet itself is relentlessly unreliable when it comes to the dissemination of accurate information -- aside from Shanghaiist.com, of course -- then internet forums really take the cake. And recently we've witnessed plenty of unsubstantiated statements tossed about on Shanghai's plethora of online discussion boards like so many Double Happiness cigarette wrappers in the street. more ›

If you're like Shanghaiist, you like going to the movies. And if you're like Shanghaiist, you rarely go to the movies in Shanghai -- because, well, most of the movies that show here are crap. (And because you can buy 10 DVDs on the street for the price of one ticket to the theater.) Thank God then for the Shanghai International Film Festival, which concludes this weekend. Finally, we get some indie and art house fare on the big screen. Right? Right? more ›

If you are a foreign man on the prowl for a Shanghainese bride, we've got good news for you: kung fu star Jackie Chan isn't going to stand in your way. In fact, if you send him your contact info -- and a photo, we assume -- he might even hook you up himself. It's all part of his diabolical plan to dropkick the globe with Chinese culture. (His attempt to accomplish this through mediocre movies has apparently failed.) Global wire services are running stories based on comments Chan made during the Shanghai International Film Festival. This is from the AP: more ›