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add to facebookShandong Province's Qilu TV has struck yet again with another quirky news story featured in its daily news program last Thursday -- this time of a woman who starts barking like a mad dog after getting bitten by a mad dog. In the video clip, one sees the poor woman coughing, wheezing, panting and barking like a dog, seemingly uncontrollable. She has to be restrained with cables tied to the couch, which in turn is tied to a 20kg rock. Apparently, her husband has brought her to the hospital, but none of the doctors admitted her for fear that she might start attacking them other patients?
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"Professors at East China Normal University estimated that about 300 million people - equivalent to more than 30% of the adult population - followed Buddhist, Taoist, Christian, Muslim or other beliefs."
"Baidu's movie relased before its landing on Nasdaq."
"'Baidu PK Google, what will happen?"
"Here is an unusal list of Chinese officials who are involved in muder or suicide cases, via Yulun Jiandu (translated by CDT)."
"Really not much new in this story except for who got burned, which is very interesting. This list includes Saks, Disney, and Citibank. I think the only person who will really get into trouble is Vincent Lo."
"Authorities have approved a Chinese film about a massage parlor boss and one of his workers to compete at the Berlin International Film Festival after five revisions, the movie's producer said."
"Taiwan removed Chiang Kai Shek's statue from its military police headquarters, angering the Kuomingtang Party. Chiang's legacy of oppression and violence is being re-examined."
"With accusations of racism swirling around its board of directors, the sacking of its charismatic frontman and writers taking sides, the row has convulsed Asia's normally sedate literary scene."
"He then beat his son with a ruler for failing to conform to his daily exercise routine. ... He claimed he devised the exercise regimen as a means of 'family fun' and told the court it was for the good of the boy's health."
"China’s quality supervision bureau has suspended operations of two domestic cosmetic firms and halted sales of six of their lipsticks because they contained the industrial and cancer-causing Sudan I, II and IV dyes."
"With a location near Duolun Road, you can shop for antiques and handicrafts when you get sick of swimming or dancing in the column-free ballroom. ... And it's probably bes to wait until it really turns 5-star."
"Authorities revoked the licence of the Shanghai Consonancy Hospital after finding it had breached rules on medical treatment, equipment sterilisation and waste management, the reports said."
"Companies are turning to banks for loans to repay money borrowed from a Shanghai pension fund, reports said Wednesday, as city government advisers called for more public information to be released regarding a corruption probe linked to those loans."
"The fall of Mr. Chen, who not only ran the city but sat in China's ruling Politburo, was China's biggest political shakeup in a generation. But more than the ouster of one official, it amounted to an indictment of the business model known as Shanghai Inc."
"Water shortages in China are reaching "incredible" proportions, a British environmental expert said Monday night, citing Shanghai as a particularly vulnerable location unless drastic action is taken quickly."
"K. Wah Center has some idiosyncrasies, including apparently being named after some kind of hip-hop infant. Among these are the world's shrillest elevators."
"Sitting in the lounge at Pudong airport now, with free wifi. Just find the tp-link wifi connection and enter password tp-link. Always a good feeling when you can check an reply all your mails before boarding."
"Shaanxi Jialong Science and Technology subsidiary ALONG Mobile Technologies announced that it will deploy over 1,000 Wi-Fi hotspots in Xi'an this year and plans to develop Xi'an into a 'Wi-Fi City', reports 163.com."
"Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council said that users in the populous Pearl River Delta and other parts of China over the past two weeks had accessed previously blocked Web sites run by the China Times (news.chinatimes.com) and the and the United Daily News (http://udn.com/NEWS/)"
"Rural villages in Shanghai will be connected to the city's broadband Internet network within two years, Shanghai Telecom said yesterday."
"In China, a genre of self-help books purports to tell the secrets of making money 'the Jewish way.'"
"As the lunar new year is approaching, the spring travel started. The central government announced earlier that the train ticket’s price will remain the same. However, most of the tickets fall into the pocket of various ticket agents, and they sell the tickets to the black marketeers."
"No other Internet company in the world — not even Google — has achieved the kind of dominance in its home market that Tencent commands in China."
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Continue reading "Today's Links: PVG WiFi, Chiang Kai-shek and Jews"
Shanghaiist reported on the suicide of a Japanese diplomat based here in Shanghai where the theory of his death was that he'd fallen in love with a beautiful Chinese woman (said "honey trap"), found himself in a compromised position, and was then blackmailed by a Chinese intelligence agency, thus leading to his death.
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Meanwhile, at Shuffle Bar, a supposed “stolen” mobile phone led the lead singer of the Cuban band to shout a few obscenities from the stage and storm off. Also, a bachelorette party showed up totally expecting “Shanghai Latin Power” to be a different kind of show.
Continue reading "Notes from the Underground: Weekend in review"
Although it’s not first time for Shanghaiist to hear such an anecdote in China, we still wonder what’s the real motive behind the rosy advertisement? Do millionaires really expect a pure naïve girl who isn't trying to dig for gold after they flaunt how much they make a year in the advertisement? Or do they simply enjoy the feeling of having thousands of people chase after their millions?
Continue reading "Desperate millionaire in search of desperate girl (with light skin)"
Chinese residents of New York City are about to get a little homesick -- or perhaps they will just be reminded of why they left China in the first place. Beginning October 20, New York based Brazilian artist Solange Fabiao will project her street scene videos of Shanghai and Nanning, capital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in southern China, on a building facade on Canal and Centre Streets in New York City's Chinatown. Called Transitio, Fabiao's "city within a city" project will run through October 31 with nightly showings at 6:30 pm and 11 pm. Fabiao has been doing these Transitio things for a few years now, including one about New York (and Shanghai and Nanning) last year in Beirut.
Continue reading "Visit Shanghai (on a wall in New York City)"
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