Pete Chorba

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• Favorited Eye on Gay Shanghai: Halloween Pub Crawl Madness on Shanghaiist
• Commented on Eye on Gay Shanghai: Halloween Pub Crawl Madness
  I'm so sad that I won't be there for the crawl, but have fun guys and gals!...
• Posted U.S. govt regulations forces family to leave adopted daughter in China to Shanghaiist
  In a modern day version of Sophie's Choice, an American couple must leave their newly adopted Chinese daughter or risk losing their jobs in the U.S. should they remain with their daughter. According to the recently enacted Center for Disease Control (CDC) guidelines, all immigrants must pass a TB screening. Harper Yue Ye, the 4 year-old girl at the center of this case, tested positive for TB two months ago. She quickly recovered and...
• Posted China Eastern passengers stage sit-in at LAX to Shanghaiist
  When it comes to flights to, from and inside China, it seems everyone has a China Eastern horror story. This one might top it all. things got so bad on this particular flight from Los Angeles to Shanghai that the passengers staged a sit-in. According to the Associated Press, the passengers were on the plane for hours on Sunday afternoon, the original flying date, before the flight was finally canceled. A rare replacement part...
• Posted FIG President calls Chinese gymnasts "robots" to Shanghaiist
  In a recent interview with a German gymnastics magazine called Leon, the President of the International Gymnastics Federation, a.k.a. FIG, Bruno Grandi criticized the female Chinese Olympic gymnasts as lacking aesthetic beauty and being underage. Grandi said, "The Chinese gymnasts were robots. From a geometrical point of view the moves were very well done, but compare with the way [Nastia] Liukin performs a single movement with artistry. You can see how she continues to...