The Daily Mail recently came to Shanghai for a lovely weekend jaunt and loved it (yay!). But the write up made me do a bit of a double take. Never mind that there's no "French District," how about the description of their trip in: "After being greeted at the airport by our hosts, our first taste of this New World was the Maglev train into town. at 260mph, it leaves the Heathrow Express standing and we were in the city centre inside eight minutes. A short cab ride then took us to the boutique JIa Hotel on central Nanjing Road, our base for the duration." more ›

Apropos of nothing, the previously scrapped maglev train line that would have linked the Pudong and Hongqiao airports together is suddenly being dusted off again. Construction on the proposed 31.8-km train line was shelved in 2007, after everybody realized that it was a terrible idea. Well, at least we thought everybody realized it was a terrible idea. more ›