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World Bank President Robert Zoellick on Monday praised Vietnam as a "tremendous success story" in fighting poverty but said institutional reforms were needed as it seeks middle-income country status.

Video of mudslide in Sichuan Province from Youku.

Shanghai has taken another step forward in the battle against Chinglish street signs. The city has enacted new guidelines to provide consistent renderings of Chinese into English on public thoroughfares, officials reported on Saturday.

Villagers help a pregnant woman evacuating from her home in low-lying areas along a water-flooded street in Zi Jin County, South China's Guangdong Province June 10, 2007. It is the worst flood to threaten 15 towns of the county in 50 years.Floods and landslides have killed 1,292 people and left another 332 missing this flood season in China, and crops on at least 15.43 million hectares of farmland have been destroyed and 1.22 million houses ruined, the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters said on Saturday.

For those unfamiliar with Shanghai's history, the city was once a giant, stinking swamp. While some say things haven't changed much since then, others have noticed a bit of development going on. Given other coastal cities (on deltas) like New Orleans and Tokyo, it shouldn't be much of a surprise that Shanghai is sinking.

The Straits Times today tells us about 27 year old Liu Qian who "has been feted as a modern-day heroine, held up as a role model for women, and won the hearts of thousands across China". For the past eight years, Liu was the mistress of Yao Chuanrui, a former manager of a Shenzhen-based state-owned company, who had been detained by police for questioning over the alleged embezzlement of RMB70 million.

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CNN reports that foreign cartoons will banned from Chinese TV during the "golden hours" of 5-8 pm, effective September 1.

The Beaufort scale defines force 8 winds as: "39-46mph. Twigs broken from trees. Cars veer on road."

At approximately 1:30 this morning, a section of Huaihai Zhong Lu was flooded by what Shanghaiist suspects was a broken water main. Local residents -- Shanghaiist included -- trudged up the sidewalk in waist-deep murky brown water to higher ground. The area affected seemed to begin around the corner of Wulumuqi Lu, by the old US Consulate building, and continue past Ambassy Court down to the Shanghai Library. At least one Dazhong taxi was stranded in the center of the street where the water was about one meter deep. Police cars blocked the street as officers looked on in bewildered amazement.

Bikes get stolen in Shanghai. Sure, they go missing in New York, or Seattle, but Shanghai seems to have less respect for the lock than most metropoli. When our cute orange folding bike turned up missing last week, Shanghaiist went a bit crazy. While many bike theft victims purchase progressively cheaper bikes, following the theory that "this one's so garbage no one could possibly want it," we went the opposite direction. Walking past Speed Cat Bicycle (site in Chinese) every day might have been the reason. In a tiny little shop that would be comfortable in any US college town, Speed Cat is instantly recognizable by the pile of half-assembled frames outside.