Sue Anne Tay

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• Posted References to communism, dissent in Obama speech censored by Chinese media (UPDATED with CCTV video) to Shanghaiist
  If you were jam packed into Glamour Bar with 600 other people earlier this morning, watching President Barack Obama being sworn in, you might have been a little too dizzy with euphoria (and possibly heatstroke) to notice particular segments of his 18-minute inauguration address -- specifically, ones that likely caused the head honchos in Beijing to collectively cringe. Remember how the new President mentioned "communism" and "facism" in the same sentence? Oh, and how...
• Posted Long-awaited Japanese supermarket arrives in Pudong to Shanghaiist
  We folks in Pudong are very excited about the long-overdue Japanese supermarket that recently opened in the basement of Yaohan, or more widely known as Babaiban (八佰伴). Well, it's not technically new. Previously, Babaiban had a smaller supermarket on the 7th floor where you could find a very modest variety of household goods and foodstuffs from Japan. Shopper traffic was, unfortunately, sparse due to its nose-bleed location which was only exacerbated by painfully slow lifts...
• Posted China’s 2009 holiday schedule to Shanghaiist
  Ok folks, it’s official! Now that the State Council has released its 2009 holiday schedule, we can start our planning and make full use of the precious vacation time for the coming year. The intricacies of slapping on an extra day or two to really stretch out that 3-day weekend can sometimes be tricky. Stay local or jaunt to the near abroad? How does one overcome the teaming mass of humanity clustered at the airports...
• Posted Will China be the first stop on Obama's presidential trip abroad? to Shanghaiist
  The road to Obama's inauguration has the world equally fixated as the election itself. Jeffrey Garten, former undersecretary of commerce under the Clinton administration poses an interesting proposition: that the President-elect, in his first presidential trip abroad, makes China the first stop. Not only that, Garten says Obama should bring his all-star cast to Beijing: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and his appointed ambassador....
• Posted Are you ready for F1 Shanghai Grand Prix? to Shanghaiist
  You can almost smell burning rubber wafting through the air. Heading into this weekend's F1 Shanghai Grand Prix with McLaren-Mercedes ‘s Lewis Hamilton leading the way from Ferrari’s Felipe Massa and Poland’s Robert Kubica, Formula One is getting ready to crown its 30th world champion. Details on teams and drivers here. According to the F1 GP previews, we're set for one of the closest finishes to a Formula One campaign in years between Hamilton and...