Posted 360 million officially all up in China's massively restricted WWW to Shanghaiist
The number of China's Internet users have reached 360 million, says ChinaTechNews - a pretty darn sizable market that has attracted considerable attention (and you know, a thousand internet-addiction camp proprietors). But with the larger amount of netizens (and the greater power they hold), has come increasing government paranoia. As the only country in the world where its youth have more online friends than offline friends, China is struggling to manage and oversee its...
Posted Interview: Kid Koala climbs to Shelter to Shanghaiist
Internationally-renown Eric San, who records under the name Kid Koala, is well known for his inventive style of turntablism, which uses an unusual collection of samples from sources like Charlie Brown television specials, old comedy sketch routines, people sneezing, and people reading a menu in Cantonese. Since becoming the first North American artist to signed to UK label Ninja Tune in 1996, Kid Koala’s has released “Carpal Tunnel Syndrome,” “Some of My Best Friends...
Posted An iTablet in the forseeable future, but China's tab-let-outs first to Shanghaiist
Aside from the cut-and-paste actor-replacements in James Bond trailers, controversial fake RMB, assorted videos of imposter pandas and the like, the shanzhai umbrella customarily covers that of electronic goods. And for the shanzhai market, its newest target is the highly publicized (yet unconfirmed and completely rumored) Apple tablet. Rumors have been a-fluttering about these mythical Apple tablets for quite a while. According to Shanzhai.com, "Apple themselves on their recent fourth-quarter earnings call helped to...
Posted The monster that lurks amongst Shanghai's waters to Shanghaiist
Deceptively beautiful, the water hyacinths have already began their annual terrorization of the waters of Huangpu River and Suzhou Creek, forcing city public sanitation teams to scramble to remove them. According to the water management department of the Shanghai Greenery and Public Sanitation Administrative Bureau, more than 28,000 tons of water hyacinth has so far been taken out of the water. Last year, the city cleaned out 166,600 tons of water hyacinth. The Jinshan...
Posted Southern Belle: only if you have time to be "chili'n" to Shanghaiist
Despite our eager anticipation of its summer arrival, we hadn't had a chance to review Southern Belle until now. Recently, we went with a 12-person birthday swarm to try out a bit of Southern hospitality in the French Concession - particularly the Southern hospitality that guarantees a ¥100 all-you-can-eat grilled chicken wings and jumbo beef-pork hotdogs until 11pm (tack another ¥100 for open bar). According to its website, Southern Belle is a celebration of...
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