Posted Hillary Clinton wants your money (for the US pavilion) to Shanghaiist
Making a pit stop during the Obama Administration’s Blonde Ambition tour of Asia, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton paid a visit to the 2010 Expo site earlier today. Secretary Clinton addressed a squadron of journalists in front of the site for the future United States pavilion, among other things asking for increased contributions from American businesses, as the U.S. had raised two-thirds of the expo participation cost as of September. Xinhua reports: “We were...
Posted Monitors remind classmates that love is publically unacceptable to Shanghaiist
Shanghaiist recently caught on to Forestry University’s attempts to clean up its campus’ ‘lovebird problem', but by what standards does this smooch patrol hold itself? Well, by employing hall monitors whose job is to ruin the mood (in high school we would have been so good at this job), the Communist Youth League has unloaded a heavy task on student volunteers- as if their classmates didn’t hate them enough already - to curb any public...
Posted Shanghai Photographer Night at Dada to Shanghaiist
Kicking off a new event idea that may very well turn into a monthly occurrence, Dada Bar is getting the word out about their ‘Shanghai Photographer Night’ on November 18th. The concept behind the event is an attempt to combine photography and music into one cohesive event. Rather than playing the uninspired, whiny music that is often found in art gallery exhibits, each photographer will him or herself select music to accompany their contribution,...
Posted One man's trash is another's kite to Shanghaiist
Unlike so many of those elderly Chinese men we see on the street walking their miniature dogs (or birds) in their pajamas, Han Fushan, a 71-year-old retired engineer living in Beijing has found a way to give his community something nice to look at. Han spends much of his time transforming discarded plastic bags (fun fact: about 300 tonnes of plastic is thrown away a day here) into high-flying kites. In the process, Han...
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