A few weeks ago, Richard Brubaker of All Roads Lead to China reported:
I just received an email from a friend who said that they were being told they could not renew their F visa fro within China anymore. A quick Skype to another confirmed that F visas cannot be extended past the Olympics.
China got off a a rip-roaring start in its 2007 Asian Cup campaign by pounding joint-hosts Malaysia 5-1 on their own turf last night.
Shanghaiist is sure your eyes glaze over, like ours do, when we hear of a celebrity buying a house worth several million dollars. Or maybe they don't, because you're rich, in which case we hate you. Still, some things manage to really shock and awe us. Some "Middle Eastern" person, with the help of Gateway Capital, just bought some apartments where the average price was 40,000 yuan per square meter. So what, you ask? Well, it's not that they just bought one for them, and one for the kids -- they bought 102 apartments, worth about 600 million yuan. It's not uncommon for corporations or groups to buy large swaths of property, but according to this report (in Chinese), this was an individual, though it doesn't disclose anything about his/her identity.
