Marina Jamieson

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• Posted Al fresco peeing incident leaves Shanghai resident braindead to Shanghaiist
  The next time you fall out of a bar at three in the morning and opt to relieve yourself in a nearby doorway before embarking on the ride home, you might want to have a quick glance around to make sure that none of the Taopu District Urban Management Team are watching you. Shanghai resident Li Binghao learnt this the hard way ... and he wasn't even the guy who was peeing in public. Last...
• Posted Shanghaiist went skiing last night (in Minhang District) to Shanghaiist
  Shooping down pristine white slopes has been a recreational option for Shanghai residents since the Yinqixing Indoor Skiing Resort opened back in 2002, but it has taken all that time for Shanghaiist to actually get its all-weather, gore-tex gloves on (Xiangyang Market – 50 kuai) and hit the 45m-high slopes that are apparently "covered in snow of a depth up to 50cm". Well Shanghaiist got a very close look at those slopes, and they are...
• Posted China's leaders spend New Year eating jiaozi with farmers to Shanghaiist
  So while New Year revellers in Shanghai were partying at various locations around the city last night (or laid up in bed with a festive bout of the ‘flu, in Shanghaiist’s case), Chinese President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao headed for the hills to spend the evening eating jiaozi and niangao with two farming families. Hu made his way to a small village near Yanan, in Shaanxi province, where, amongst other things, he joined...
• Posted Retail giant Wal-Mart hit by lawsuit from disgruntled workers to Shanghaiist
  Following the publication of two reports (here and here) by China Labor Watch and the National Labor Committee back in mid-December, it would appear that the US retailing behemoth Wal-Mart may find itself up against it, even in the smallest of ways. Fifteen workers from developing countries around the world, including China, have had a class-action suit filed on their behalf, claiming that they were paid less than the minimum wage, had overtime payments withheld...
• Posted How to have your crab ... and eat it, too to Shanghaiist
  You're out in a restaurant that would certainly rank above the average noodle house, the table cloths are white and starched and some kindly soul has the class (and funds) to order lobster, or maybe crab, at which point the doomed critters are promptly sieved out of their miserable tank, boiled and served. In their shells. Impenetrable. Leaving you to make the choice between politely pinning them down with your chopsticks and securing a small...