It's easy to get excited about Dunkin' Donuts and the arrival of another Best Buy will at least offer us a more customer-friendly electronics shopping experience, but can Shanghai really handle the full frontal in-your-face Americana that is Dippin' Dots? For the uninitiated, Dippin Dots are little balls of liquid nitrogen-enhanced ice cream that look like smallpox, feel like Styrofoam, and taste like redneck. Fine, maybe they don't taste like a redneck (they taste like......

A few weeks ago it came to our attention that what appeared to be a large price tag-shaped sign was affixed to the front of a building under construction across the street from Zhongshan Park. The sign was under wraps, but the shape alone was enough to conjure up images of Best Buy and many high school hours spent searching in vain for movies and music that they don't keep in stock. Now despite......

Shanghai Daily predicts an "early summer" for Shanghai, with temperatures hitting 30 degrees Celsius today. The Shanghaiist Weather Center, however, says today's high will only reach 27 (our current temperature) and that temperatures will remain in the 20s throughout the week, maxing out at 29 on Wednesday. Not that 29 is exactly chilly — for all you Americans out there, that means 84 degrees Fahrenheit. Why are we talking about the weather? Well, while shopping......

AsiaPundit » Blog Archive » iPhone Now Available in China "Even though the official Asian launch date for the Apple iPhone is not until 2008, users of the China’s Taobao auction site can already buy the ‘revolutionary’ phone. No wonder Taobao could beat eBay in the China market ..." (tags: china iphone gadgets tech taobao) Syphilis epidemic raging in China, says study - Yahoo! News "Syphilis, virtually eradicated in China under Mao Zedong, has......

Reports suggest that China is going to make some changes to its $1 trillion foreign exchange reserve by getting rid of some US dollars and changing them to RMB. The report also states that part of China's forex reserves are made of Japanese yen.Google is going to team up with China Mobile to offer mobile internet searching on your mobile phone similar to the services offered in the US.Some people are discussing whether or not......

We can't say we are really excited about American electronics retailer Best Buy opening their first China store in Shanghai, but it does give us an excuse to publish a cool 3D Shanghai street map from edushi.com. Best Buy will reportedly occupy four floors (8,000 square meters) of the Jiang Shan Building, 1065 Zhaojiabang Lu, in Xujiahui. (Here is what that building looks like in an architect's dreams.) Best Buy has announced no opening date,......

China's police must be really, really good. The nation's legal system jailed 844,717 last year -- and found only 2,162 defendants not guilty. That's more than a 98 percent conviction rate! A Chinese lawyer estimated that some 70 percent of criminal defendants in China go unrepresented.American retailer Best Buy will open its first China location in Shanghai's "downtown core" in June.Think twice before you buy that antique: You may be "stealing China's cultural heritage."Looking for......