Here's what's happening around Shanghai: Jade Buddha Temple gets a facelift, bridges stolen in the dead of night, and a new campaign promising to return child beggars to their families. more ›

Yuyuan coin thieves, rubber egg yolks, Disneyland rides, endangered animal trackers, and peak power usage. Here's what happening around Shanghai: more ›

Shanghai finds another crocodile in its rivers, your pipes are about to explode, restaurant smiley hygiene ratings go online, our legislator hates expensive baijiu, and more things being torn down in Shanghai. Here's what's happening around the city: more ›

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• After six hours of surgery, a pair of 4-month-old conjoined twins were successfully separated yesterday at the Shanghai Children's Medical Center. The twins shared a liver and pericardium, but thankfully each had their own heart.
• Supposedly somebody somewhere is thinking about extending the 48-hour transit visa length in Shanghai. They wont tell us when or for who or how long, but hey, here's hoping!
• And hey, did you guys know we have a 48-hour transit visa on arrival in Shanghai?

• Shanghai Daily has more on "epilepsy gate" -- the South African guy who helped a subway passenger who was apparently having an epileptic fit said he felt "very sad" that Chinese passengers just stood by and watched.
• 33-month-old Xiang Weiyi, the "miracle" girl pulled out from the wreckage of the Wenzhou train collision hours after officials said there were no more signs of life may be left disabled permanently, say doctors at the Xinhua Hospital.
• A group of high school students from Jiangxi Province brought to work at a factory in Shanghai for an "internship" are demanding to be paid.

Curious about what those American university teams - Georgetown and Duke - did with their days in Shanghai? Not get into fights, thank goodness! The Blue Devils went shopping at Shanghai Market while the Georgetown team visited the Bund and remarked that "Shanghai is a far more modernized city compared to Beijing." They then proceeded to beat the Liaoning Dinosaurs without being beat on. more ›

• A 13-year-old girl was abducted by a couple who planned on raising her and marrying her to their 22-year-old son. In stereotypically creepy fashion, they claim they "did not know the girl was only 13." Someone call Chris Hanson.
• A salon owner skipped town with almost one million RMB after enticing some of his regular customers (and some staff) to deposit up to 50,000RMB onto their membership cards in anticipation of "promotional offers." For those who are wondering, given 100RMB for a haircut, 50,000RMB will buy you four haircuts a year for 125 years. We can't even imagine what kind of happy endings promotional offers that place was selling.
• The Shanghai government has its hands full trying to deal with 55,000 tons of rotting duckweed plants that were dredged from the Huangpu River. The plants originated from Zhejiang Province; perhaps we should send them back?

• A plan by Beijing-based real estate company SOHO China to build a modern high-rise complex that will overshadow the colonial buildings along the Bund has left Shanghai residents up in arms.
• Check out some nice images of the ongoing 14th FINA World Championships at the Oriental Sports Center here.
• Trolley buses are going to be phased out in Shanghai, and they'll be replaced with new energy vehicles by 2014.

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• Peruvian Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa has criticised "dictatorial and authoritarian" governments while addressing students at Shanghai International Studies University. Of course, nobody in China will have heard him because this isn't an authoritarian country, right?
• Utter madness: Students are being offered free cosmetic surgery if they work at a Shanghai hospital over the summer.
• Shanghai is hosting Asia's largest offshore wind event which began yesterday and ends tomorrow. The city's plans to build another 2 more offshore wind farms were announced at the event.

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• Shanghai-born opera star Zhang Jun has been named by UNESCO as an 'artist for peace' envoy.
• Infosys, India's second largest software services exporter, is set to open a new Shanghai campus that will have over 10,000 employees.
• Shanghai is set to let its residents invest overseas individually, a significant step in helping China ease excess liquidity and inflationary pressure.

• According to a report by Shanghai's Oriental Outlook Magazine (found via NTD TV), "a multi-million dollar compensation fund for babies who were sickened by melamine-tainted milk three years ago has been kept secret." WHAT!
• Five of seven recently banned food products were for weight loss (while two others also claimed to contribute to weight-loss by regulating "blood fat"). These products contained illegal additives that could cause high blood presure, accelerating heartbeats, anorexia, insomnia and liver function disorder)... sure, but how ELSE are we supposed to get skinny?
• Even as China’s population ages, research has shown that it’s still too early to relax the One Child Policy.
• Eleven people have gone on trial for the manufacturing and selling of a fake eye medication that caused adverse reactions in 61 victims.

• 29 year old Hunan man sentenced to two years jail for organising male prostitution.
• Shanghai new home sales down 3.5%.
• Blast at mobile phone components plant in Jinshan District kills 2.

• Shanghai women are less willing to pop babies out all by themselves. More and more of them are undergoing cesareans, to be precise 53.6 percent of all local pregnant women. Now Shanghai's health authority and local hospitals are seeking to reduce this rate.

• Over 100 people ill from wedding dinner at Ramada Plaza Pudong Hotel.
• Six injured at Parkson Huaihai when escalator reversed direction.
• Sales of iPad 2 start today in Shanghai and elsewhere in China.

• Juicy: Shanghai-based video-sharing site Tudou is about to file for IPO in the US, but now CEO Gary Wang's ex-wife is demanding some of the company's equity.
• Yikes: Cancer-causing popcorn seized from a cinema in Qingpu.
• Elsewhere in Shanghai, on Tianshan Lu, a boutique popcorn store opens.

• Shanghai's first scheduled Airbus A380 service, Emirates flight EK302, touched down at Pudong airport yesterday afternoon.
• Prominent Chinese rockstar Zuoxiao Zuzhou and his wife, Xiao Li, both good friends of Ai Weiwei, have apparently been stopped by airport officials in Shanghai and have been out of touch since then.
• In the works: further expansion at Shanghai's Yangshan Deep Water Port.