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Photo by Mike Chen The Steven Spielberg pullout... AFP: Spielberg mocked in China over Olympic pullout Business Week: Why Spielberg doesn't care about annoying Beijing Xinhua: Spielberg slashed by Chinese, but his movies still admired ... and the fallout Reuters: Dutch party seeks boycott of Olympics opening The Canadian Press: An athlete's voice of protest could become a roar at Beijing Games AFP: Ex-China basketball star says Olympics are platform for change The spy......

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By Mike Chen When: 2007-2008 Where: Shanghai Metro......

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By Mike Chen Date: Christmas Eve 2007 Location: St Ignatius Cathedral, Xujiahui, Shanghai......

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The leaves are falling a little late this year, it seems... Photo from Mike Chen Share with us how you see Shanghai, or China! Simply post your photos on Flickr, tag them with "shanghaiist", and we'll select one favorite image per day. Or you can simply email your photos to photos[at]shanghaiist.com.......

China confirms presence of toxic substance in bead toys [Economic Times] China's quality control watch dog has confirmed that the bead toys which the US and Australia have recalled in millions over safety fears contain toxic substance. US sees no rapid shift in China's currency reserves [AFP] Amid a plunging US dollar, China has again threatened to diversify its mountain of dollar foreign reserves but US officials are unperturbed while experts do not see a......

Yu Zhengsheng replaces Xi Jinping as Party head in Shanghai [Xinhua] Xi Jinping no longer serves concurrently as the Party secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC). The post is now held by Yu Zhengsheng, according to the CPC Central Committee.Boom in China's coal industry draws increasing interest from American investors and business [IHT] As China's appetite for coal is booming, American investors and businesses are cashing in.India has......

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Shanghai surprise as luxury goods addicts flash the cash in red China [The Telegraph] Luxury goods addicts seem to have added Shanghai to the list of must-visit cities if the shopping buzz is anything to go by, says Mark Kleinman.China sets up party leadership reshuffle [Financial Times] China’s Communist party has cleared the way for the appointment of a new senior leadership group following the retirement of vice-president Zeng Qinghong and two other members of......

Over the week-long National Day holiday:Total airline passenger numbers climbed a quarter on the year-earlier period to 3.75 million people, with the record of 540,000 was set on September 30 - the highest number of people to be flying on a single day.One million computers were infected with various computer viruses, and 118,000 computers crashed on one day alone.Retail sales of consumer goods in China rose 16 percent year-on-year to almost 350 billion yuan.Traffic......

China's growing web addiction [CBNnews.com] The Internet has revolutionized the way that millions in China communicate with the outside world. But for some Chinese teenagers the thrill of using the Internet came with a high price: addiction. China bloggers stew about Olympic pigs [Wall Street Journal] In recent weeks, news that hogs are being specially raised to feed the athletes at the next year's Beijing Olympics has spurred an outcry on the Internet. The pigs......

The East Indiaman Götheborg is a large wooden sailship, a replica of the vessel with the same name. The original sank off Gothenburg on the 12 September 1745 while approaching its home harbour after returning from her third voyage to Asia. All sailors survived, but the ship, fully laden with tea, porcelain, silk and spices, was lost. The replica, following a different route from the original, set sail from Gothenburg on 2 October 2005, came......

Chinese athletes are run into the ground "But four years after she retired at 26 with nothing but an elementary school education and a body crippled by sports injuries, the former marathon champion says she has been duped." What if Beijing's rivers ran clear? "Beijing's waterways suffer from severe pollution. But even if they did not, the residents of the capital might present an even greater threat, writes Dongting Lu." Cities in Danger of......

The Private Property Party "China Digital Times has noted a Wall Street Journal article that reports on heightened sensitivities around the subject - sensitivities that may have resulted in the current issue of the business magazine Caijing being pulled and revised." China lawmaker wants Forbidden City free of Starbucks "A member of China's parliament has demanded the immediate closure of a Starbucks coffee shop set up inside Beijing's Forbidden City, the Xinhua news agency......

Before we get started, Shanghaiist would first like to wish you a happy Chinese new year—may you get rich and get laid in 4705!After being placed under house arrest for two weeks, China is allowing aging AIDS activist Gao Yaojie to travel to the US to pick up an award.Chinese sculptor Lei Yixin has been picked to make the sculpture of Martin Luther King that will be placed in the King Memorial, which will be......

WARNING: Shallow post alert. Shanghaiist has a bunch of family who live in Honolulu. That means we have to (poor us) visit The Islands on a regular basis. While footwear in Hawaii generally consists of two items -- flip-flops or nothing at all -- we have noticed a disturbing trend over the past few years: More people are wearing these hideous inventions. They are called Crocs, and they are severely ugly. There are are bunch......

After tea served in restaurants, the latest health warning is about ReNu contact lens solution, which is being taken off the shelves in China.If it's yellow let it mellow, if it's brown flush it down: Conserve residential water.No mercy shown for under-performing enterprises: If your firm isn't doing well enough, you'll be kicked out on your ass to make way for that holy grail, 'development'.Fang Zhouzhi continues his quest to expose the fraudsters. He has......