This is an advertisement. IVG, a worldwide leading venue operator, is providing services to the USA, Australian and New Zealand Pavilions at World Expo 2010. We have limited full time and casual positions still available for: Customer Service Staff, Retail Sales Staff, Waiters, Cooks, Kitchen Hands, Dishwashers, and Mascot Handlers. The Australian Pavilion is also recruiting professional musicians in the sand bar band. For further details and job descriptions, please visit our website. To apply, please send your resume, photo, and a cover letter for each position you are interested by Thursday, 11th February to Room 3301 K Wah Center. #1010 Huaihai Zhong Road, Shanghai. More job ads. Place a job ad. more ›

This is an advertisement. The USA Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo 2010 is now recruiting! We are offering an exciting number of positions across a variety of teams. Please visit our website at usapavilion2010.com/jobs for the opportunity to be a part of the world’s biggest-ever event! More job ads. Place a job ad. more ›

This is an advertisement. The Australian pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo 2010 is recruiting now! We have a number of positions across a variety of teams. Please visit our website and the recruitment section at australianpavilion.com for the opportunity to be a part of the biggest event in Shanghai next year. More job ads. Place a job ad. more ›

Jia's film, tentatively titled Shanghai Legend (上海傳奇), is scheduled to be finished towards the end of this year/beginning of next, and will be premiered around April 2010. more ›

What if the U.S. broke up (much like the Soviet Union did in the early 1990s)? According to one Russian professor, it means that Governer Ahnold may need to learn Chinese. more ›

We’re hunting for a Project Champion, an American corporate executive most likely, to get us started (i.e., $250,000 to organize, plan, and create enough documentation to pursue serious funding). Although an old law prohibits government funding, we have good connections in the new one and that could change. Unfortunately, they aren’t in charge until February, two months into the one year left for us to do anything of quality. more ›

God forbid you should ever come across two or more of the Shanghai World Expo mascots in the street, at least now, thanks to Shanghai Daily, you know the proper collective noun to use when describing the furry blue monsters to the 119 operator: Brace. "I am being attacked by a brace of Haibao!" Should there be six Haibao, you would say "three brace of Haibao!" Seven? Good luck. No one has ever escaped from such an encounter alive. Please note that, like "fish" and "zucchini", the plural form of Haibao is also Haibao, making them even creepier. [Via apgalbraith on Twitter] more ›

Group tickets for the 2010 Shanghai World Expo will go on sale on September 28th for RMB160. [Source] more ›

We can see it now. Fast-forward to 2010. An ancient Tibetan god called Gozer arrives atop an apartment building near Xintiandi in Shanghai, where it tells the neighborhood's restaurateurs that the next thing they think of will be the form Gozer will assume to destroy their world. Despite their efforts to clear their minds, Bob Boyce imagines Haibao, the irksome mascot of the 2010 World Expo. As he explains, Haibao "just popped in there" as "something that could never possibly destroy us." Moments later a giant Haibao is seen walking towards the apartment building. And then the restaurateurs shoot at Haibao with their proton packs ... and so on and so on. more ›

Do films with titles like "Feathers of Dongtan" and "Sounds. Breaths" give you a tingle in your special area? If not, fret not, there's still some time to develop that acquired taste which is promotional films for really-big-Chinese-events. "Vision Shanghai", like "Vision Beijing," is going to feature documentary films by famous directors, thought the names of those directors have yet to be released. However, Shanghai Film Group has announced its next Expo film, a full-length doc by Jia Zhangke. We've been hearing about this intermittently for awhile, and whatever our reservations about promo films, we're still curious to see what Jia's up to with this film.The article says that trailers are being shown on TV soon, but we haven't seen anything new on the video-sharing sites. more ›

We want some of whatever this guy is smoking: more ›

And ... ummm ... what ... exactly .... is ... that? more ›