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It's true, the outdated but once beloved term "W.C." is going to be flushed down the crapper of history (at least in Beijing) before the Olympics, to be replaced by the more widely-used "toilet." But more interesting than that is what they are planning on doing with road signs:

Also on the list are road signs. Use of the romanized form of Chinese, known as "pinyin," will be replaced by the actual English word, except for proper names, the newspaper added. Out will go Dong Changan Jie and in will come East Changan Avenue.

Although we always liked the ring of "avenue" and are even more partial to "boulevard," these words would sound strange in the context of China, and even more so in Shanghai. Here we have a plethora of "roads" but no "avenues," and come to think of it, we don't even know what lu, if any, would qualify as an avenue. But perhaps that's just the peculiarities of our city, which for the most part is composed of small winding streets and a handful of major arterials.

Chinese monthy trade surplus nearly doubles

"...the February surge was caused by exporters shipping goods early to beat an expected change in taxes, leaving less to ship in March."

US engineer found guilty of 'spying' for China

"Mak was convicted on two counts of attempting to send sensitive material to China, acting as a foreign agent without notifying the US government and making false statements to federal agents."

133 punished for roles in mining disasters

"The serious accidents should be taken as 'lessons that have come at the cost of blood and lives,'"

Chinese stocks fall after high

"A stock-market bubble has been building rapidly,... The risk is getting higher that it will burst".

Is 2009 the year China's labourers get a pay rise?

"China may face a shortage in its work force in two years time because the amount of surplus labor will not be as great as has been estimated"

Foreign banks paying more for good Chinese staff

"Finding and retaining good personnel was ranked the second- most difficult aspect of the Chinese banking industry by the 40 foreign banks polled, behind regulation."

Have property investment laws for foreigners been relaxed?

"...deposits for land bidding can now not only be paid with RMB, but also US dollars, Hong Kong dollars, Japanese yen and euros, payable to the municipal land bureau. This was not the case in the past."

Subdued repsonse from China, South Korea, to Japanese PM's War Shrine Gift

"A Chinese government spokeswoman, Jiang Yu, told reporters that Yasukuni was an “important and sensitive political issue” and asked Japan to “strictly abide” by its pledges to cooperate with China."

China rubber stamps five-year space development plan

"China should give priority to a manned space flight, lunar exploration, new launch vehicle, high-resolution earth observation"

A CBA on the VTech massacre

"The authorities declared this case domestic despite Cho's legal status as a Korean citizen, while the media plastered the front pages citing "Korean" as his national origin."

Hangzhou announces humane stray canine crackdown

"The dogs will first receive tranquilizers to keep them calm before they are injected with a special medicine..."

Harbin's Songhua River rehab program to last 10 years.

"the rehabilitation effort for the Songhua River, one of the most heavily polluted rivers in the country, would remain in effect for 10 years"

A giant city needs a giant sewage plant

"The water that leaves the plant will still not be drinkable, however, and the city will still have a long way to go before all of its river discharges are properly treated"

Virus Suspected in Chinese Pig Deaths

"... tests to determine if the (Chinese) disease is porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome, a viral disease... it is the costliest virus for swine herds in the United States."

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Lonely (or just plain horny) city residents have taken to a new fad -- wearing bracelets which let people know that you are single (or at least still looking):

Which is a good thing. If we didn't, she would quite possibly tear us limb from limb. If this Shanghaiist was not British, he would probably say "she don't take no shit", and possibly "you go girl!", but British people just sound silly when they try to talk American slang. She started yesterday's press conference with no fuss, no muss: