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Fancy visiting the Yu Garden in Germany? That will soon be a possibility because a replica will be built in Hamburg by the end of next year, complete with the Bridge of Nine Turns, traditional Chinese performances, teas and dim sum. Looks like these are the days of global tourism indeed. Who said you needed to fly five thousand miles to see China?
A Shanghai stand-up comedian was attacked by three armed men late on Wednesday night. In what some see as a politically motivated attack, a Chinese panda bit part of an American woman's thumb off at a zoo in Chengdu. Just when we thought we'd seen it all: a 16 year old boy in Fujian can drink water through his eyes.
October 6, 2006 was the thirtieth anniversary of the Gang of Four -- and the state media is not going to remind you of that fact. More space related news: asteroid has been named after a Chinese middle school in Zhejiang.
Mac William Bishop discusses the PLA's cadre of young hackers and the information warfare attacks between the PRC and Taiwan Another interview with Qiu Xiaolong, the Shanghai born writer of English language detective novels featuring the poetry-loving Inspector Chen. Taipei has gay pride parades every year, but this year was a bit different: the parade culminated with a wedding ceremony for four lesbian couples, a first in Asia. The number of people to be displaced by the Three Gorges Dam has been raised by 270,000 to 1.4 million. Photos from Reuters: a man in Hefei attempting to extinguish a torch in his mouth. A Chinese company unveiled a "G spot" female condom that they say 90 percent of female users to achieve orgasm. This number came from a clinical trial of 135 people, and other than seven women that were pregnant and four that were post-menopausal, all the other women reported achieving orgasm. The report (in Chinese) says that the "bumps" on the top of the condom do the trick. Photos: a man in a remote mountain village in Chongqing who has not cut his hair in 26 years decides that washing his hair isn't a bad idea. His hair is 2 meters long and his beard a close second at 1.5 meters. If you're not squeamish, you check out the pictures of people washing his hair -- they had to use nine bags of detergent to do the job. Michael Schumacher lifts the Shanghai curse. Ten expats win friends of the city prizes, and we were not one of them. Shanghai is on its way to becoming a major airport hub in Asia -- and all will come to pass, you guessed it, before 2008.
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In other Shanghaiist news, our favourite media blog Danwei has offered your correspondent a very special Toilet Bowl Award as part of their recent Model Worker's Awards for "posting regularly about news that no one else is finding, and translating some of the more interesting stuff on the Chinese Internet". We have also been singled out for our "excellent contribution to the toilet sector, for the posts Shanghai artist's Nike poo, and especially for the video displayed at this page: New bidet that doubles as enema and colon cleanser." We wish we could take all the credit for it but the first story came in as a tip while the second one was a quite a boo-boo on our part. We've actually since unpublished the post (but somehow it still appears), reason being, one of our colleagues already wrote about it earlier this year. Anyhow, we shall graciously accept our toilet bowl and promise to polish it religiously.
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But bars, saunas, nightclubs and mahjong parlours, serving people aged over 18, will be exempted from the ban till mid-2009. London, Dublin, New York, Hong Kong -- one by one, they all fall down. Can Shanghai be far behind (there's only one correct answer to that one).
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Local police said the lecture was "unacceptable", the newspaper said.
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Son: Mom, you're never going to get old.
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Zhu said that after 10 minutes of treatment Bai's lung cancer had been cured and he would recover quickly.
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The song that got the most votes was the folk ballad, "My Wonderful Home Town," followed by "I Love China," "Singing Praises of Motherland" and 27 others, Xinhua news agency said.
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For the ever-pragmatic Chinese, adopting English names has always represented a way for them to bridge the linguistic and cultural gap. Now, as China widens its reach abroad and as the number of expatriates living in China swells, picking an English name has become a rite of passage for most young, urban Chinese. So ... this is news?
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- Officials in Beijing deny ing rumors that 1 million migrants would be expelled from the capital during the Olympics. However, as we mentioned earlier, 50 of the 239 schools for migrant workers have been closed down recently -- in some cases by the police, en masse. On the brighter side, those that get to remain in Beijing will have a spiffy new light-rail system by 2008 to whisk them around from place to place!
- The 8th Yunnan province Minority Games has been kinda of a mess: male athletes using wigs to dress up as women, people fighting, and athletes that only speak with donbei (northeastern) accents.
- After a recent BBC undercover investigation into illegal organ transplants in a Tianjin hospital, Chinese officials replied by sayingthere was no such thing happening.
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