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We told you about the Made-in-China scare that is happening outside of China, but let's take another look at what's happening right here right now. A CCTV program (click link for video in Chinese) has investigated a herbal weight loss patch (美国七点瘦) which its manufacturers claim to have helped Chelsea Clinton shed 12 kilograms in less than a month. Users are instructed to stick the patch to the area of the body where they want to lose weight and then just wait for the patch to miraculously suck the fat out of them through the skin (yes you heard that right).

Last Saturday, Shanghaiist was invited to attend the unveiling of Shanghai's newest gallery space, m97. Once we negotiated the tricky shared building entrance, we made our way to the second floor and was immediately impressed by the physical space and airy nature of the gallery. The grand opening featured an exhibition of by emerging Beijing photographer and artist Jiang Zhi titled "Things Would Turn Simpler Once They Happened". Immediately we had diametrically opposing thoughts. "How were these photos taken?", and "I don't quite get it...". We wished that our interpretation of the photographic exhibition was as simple as the exhibition's title, but we assume this is the art part of the exhibition. Here's a little about Jiang Zhe (pictured below) and his exhibit from information posted by m97.

Yet another black eye (and apparently also a broken jaw and an unconscious player) to China’s national football team, this one happened yesterday in London and featured an all out brawl between the Chinese team and the Queens Park Rangers, a division one professional team in the English football system. IHT reports:

Manchester City become the latest big European club to swing by China, as more fat cat chairmen attempt to stuff a slice of the lucrative East Asian football market pie in their already obese and money-obsessed faces. The English Premier League side take on Shanghai Shenhua on Friday night in the 2006 Shanghai International Football Tournament.

The self-proclaimed "special one", Chelsea Manager Jose Mourinho (or Jose Moaninho as he's known to British football fans) was not feeling quite so special last night as Barcelona over-powered his dull Chelsea side in every department. Despite running away with the Premier League this year and last year, Chelsea have faultered in the Champions League, even with the benefit of not-so-squeeky-clean Russian Billionaire Roman Abramovich pouring money into the team (440 million pounds -- $765.3 million -- in total since he bought the club in 2003, half of that going to buy new players).

Shanghai Shenhua could be about to lose another star in the shape of captain and national team left-back Sun Xiang, the Shanghai Daily reports.

According to a recent survey conducted on behalf of London’s Birkbeck College, China’s soccer fans are as keen as ever on footie-behemoth Manchester United, with one important factor cited as being the opportunity for fans to see top players performing to the max on the field. “If they go to watch top performers in action, Chinese fans want to see them perform well,” the findings reveal. Well what a disappointment this season’s English premiership competition must have been to them so far. Ten points adrift from leaders Chelsea in the table, sitting ignominiously behind Tottenham Hotspur and minnows Charlton Athletic, and having suffered defeat at the hands of Blackburn, following which manager Sir Alex Ferguson was booed by his own fans, Man U’s sparkling performances have not exactly been coming thick and fast to delight stalwart Chinese fans. But you would be hard-pressed to predict that this love affair will do anything but die hard. Following this summer’s friendly between the English premiership side and Beijing Hyundai, the China Daily noted, “thousands of Chinese fans in the crowd of 24,223 in Beijing's Workers Stadium wore red Manchester United jerseys”. The club has its own Chinese website, www.manunited.com.cn, offering, among other things, an SMS information service for fans requiring up to the minute news on the team. Perhaps more importantly, the club also just signed its first ever Chinese player, Dong Fangzhuo, who debuted in the Beijing Hyundai Game alongside the likes of Wayne Rooney and Rio Ferdinand. However, it would nonetheless appear that the pre-match hopes of many a Chinese supporter have been borne out in what has been seen of the 2005 Premiership season so far. The survey reveals of Chinese fans attending the Beijing game that “many indicated they were at the game in anticipation of Beijing claiming a shock win”. With the way things are currently going for the northern England team, perhaps not such a vain hope after all …