Results tagged “australianpavilion”

Remember that Kookaburra naming contest we told you about that the Australian Pavilion was holding? Someone won it. Haibao's new BFF from Down Under is now called Peng Peng (鹏鹏).

• Prolific Chinese (but English language) blogger Wangjianshuo gives us a second take of the Shanghai Expo site after visiting it with the Australian Pavilion Group. [Wangjianshuo]
• As part of its whole bid to become a "global financial and shipping center," Shanghai's got plans to attract 1000 talented staff from abroad with housing benefits, residency rights, education for children and other perks. [SCMP]
• Curious about what the air looks like in Shanghai? It's not for the light hearted or hypochondriacs amongst us. Scootergrrl shows us what her filters look like after six months on the job. [Scootergrrl]

Australia seems to be taking the early bird proverb pretty seriously these days. It became the first foreign pavilion to finish its outer structure last week, and then revealed its own official mascot for the World Expo - a kookaburra! And now it's looking for the Chinese to give the Ozzie representative a name.

• Shanghai Scrap shows solidarity with Fox News's Roger Friedman by buying a copy of that leaked yet-to-be-released summer blockbuster, X-Men Origins: Wolverine. [Shanghai Scrap]
• He's not the first to do so either. Lost Laowai had already scooped up a fake DVD copy just days after the leak... and then took the time to school a fenqing on the differences between piracy and those looted relic heads. [Lost Laowai]
• Not quitting the new battle for currency supremacy, China is moving to globalize the yuan and promote it overseas - and Shanghai gets to be the command central. [LA Times]
• A cluster of old buildings first constructed in the Qing Dynasty are saved from urban demolition after a national survey of cultural relics finds that many exist in there. They're located in the Chenhang area in Minhang. [Xinhua]