Duke University's Academic Council has voted 44-8 to approve a master's of management studies degree to be offered by the university's Fuqua School of Business in Kunshan, a city just a stone's throw away from Shanghai. The university described the program thus in a statement on its website: more ›

UC Berkeley's College of Engineering has announced a new partnership with the Shanghai Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park to develop what it describes as a "a platform for expanding industrial and academic research collaborations in Asia and fostering global learning opportunities for Berkeley students." more ›

Leave it to New York University, the second-largest property holder in New York, to be one of the first American institutions to try and design a building here just for them. According to the student paper, Washington Square News, NYU is coming to Shanghai in full force. more ›

While searching the web for Tianma Shan, we stumbled upon this helpful site by Robin Zhang, "the software designer of JetPhoto." Clicking around a bit, we found this neat panorama of the University of Shanghai (沪江大学) in the 1920s. We also found these current photos of the old University of Shanghai buildings, which are now part of the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology [official site | map] in Yangpu District on the Huangpu River. We found this all kind of interesting — we had never heard of the University of Shanghai, which was founded in 1906. We probably should have, since we have a friend who recently graduated from USST. Here's what she said: more ›

href="http://londonist.com/2008/02/air_bound.php"> remove one man from Gatwick.

Picture of Chinese soldiers from tigeranger1971. more ›

That's the way it was back in the 1930s and 40s. They even had a board game to that effect -- it was called "Shanghai Millionaire" (pictured). We learned about this Monopoly clone via the weekly newsletter of market intelligence firm Access Asia. You can read the current newsletter here, but be warned that it will switch to the next newsletter at the end of the week (how about an archive, guys?). more ›

• Some Chinese activists on hunger strikes have gone missing. Wonder if it was these "activists" who helped lead the foreign press to the story.
• In the Washington Post: "The soul of Freezing Point has been extinguished. Only an empty shell remains."
• China is now home to 10 billionaires, up from three last year. Forbes lists China's 400 richest.

A survey done by the Shanghai Municipal Women and Children Committee found that women in the city are doing less housework and relaxing more -- partly due to the growth of the housekeeping service industry. more ›