Results tagged “miscellaneous”

Xinhua: Spielberg slashed by Chinese, but his movies still admired

Reuters: China steeled for worse weather as holidays loom

Xinhua: Danish PM wishes for closer cooperation with China in New Year

China Daily: Shanghai to base growth on service industry

AFP: Shanghai to close hundreds of migrant schools

Xinhua: British PM visits Shanghai

NYT: China Censors a Film, Then Bans It Entirely

Xinhua: Rule on living Buddhas aids religious freedom

China Digital Times: Deal With Global Warming: Try Not to Divorce - China Youth Daily

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Back in the office and just can't concentrate on work? Here's a bunch of useless links we gathered that you can entertain yourself with (while pretending to look oh-so-busy)!

As we got up this morning, we were already delighted at the idea that we would have lunch at Paul. We could already hear the sweet sound of the bread crust of their baguette sandwiches, taste the rich butter of their viennoiseries, and see the wooden shelves, behind the counter, full of different kinds of bread. Just like home.

Briton Nick Young, founding editor and publisher of the China Development Brief (we're surprised this website is still up and running), has been ordered to shut down his politically-sensitive newsletter here and has been accused of 'conducting unauthorised surveys'. He also faces possible deportation and a 5-year ban from China.

If we’re a day late picking up the buzz on Xu Haojia—the 16-year-old girl auctioning her breasts for charity—it's because the story was so baffling, it took us 24 hours to sort it out.

This time we will go back to our roots. Volume 6 will be held at the Yangshupu Creative Center. This converted factory complex with its romantic industrial gardens is the perfect place to get away from Shanghai´s concrete jungle… [For more information about Yangshupu Creative Center, see FAR's column in Shanghai Talk this month.]

Heading near the Shanghai Expo site today? Might want to hold your breath. This from the International Herald Tribune, originally by way of AP and Xinhua:

According to this morning's Metro Express (时代报), officials at Shanghai's Conference on Population and Family Planning declared yesterday that there were 18.15 million inhabitants of Shanghai at the end of 2006 — and that doesn't include migrant workers. The figure is said to be 2.07 million more than 2000. By 2010, the population is expected to exceed 19 million.

Basketball simulation games are looking increasingly realistic—take NBA 2K7, for example, which even attempts to get the hairdos of the players right. ESPN's report card on hairdos gives the folks at 2K an "A" for the way they did Yao Ming. Have a look yourself. Hair aside, he looks a bit neanderthal to us, or like a Street Fighter version of himself, though we're guessing this isn't any kind of departure from his look in previous editions of the game.

Shanghaiist hopes that Valentine's Day 2007 went better for you than it did for us. We had planned, after dinner and drinks, to get drunk and screw, especially after watching the above sex ed video for inspiration.

Shanghaiist woke up at 6 this morning to a terrible noise outside our building. Two buses (#205 and #45) had collided at the intersection and plowed into the building directly across the street from us. The Taiyuan and Jianguo intersection is very busy, with traffic going south towards the Xujiahui area and a wet market right on the corner. One of the buses must have ran a red light, resulting in the freak accident. Of course, a crowd quickly gathered around the front of the buses and the boyfriend guessed that there was someone (or some people) pinned by the buses, although we didn't want to believe it. The cops, then firemen, and then finally rescue workers arrived on the scene and it was a full half hour before tape was wrapped around the buses to prevent rubberneckers from disrupting the accident further. Only a few people were taken to the hospital (what looked to be one of the drivers and an elderly woman, who wasn't badly hurt).

Over a year ago, a Chinese billionaire businessman made headlines when he published a seeking marriage ad in the newspaper where one of the requirements of the woman be that she is a virgin at the time of marriage.

Just recently, we came across a report from December 2006 about the lives of seven individuals, each making 1,000 yuan (US$128) per month, living in seven different Chinese cities. The cities included Beijing, Shenzhen, Xi'an, Changchun, etc., as well as our own city of Shanghai. The following is our translation of the interview with Xiao Nao, who lives in Shanghai. Although it was published in December, some of the references (like taxi fares) lets you know the interview took place some time before that:

Most of you know that the earthquake off the coast of Taiwan has severely disrupted telecommunications, including phone and internet, all over the Asia-Pacific region. The 7.2 earthquake messed up some of the submarine optical cables that connect Asia with much of the rest of the world. In response, there's been an attempt to reroute and use backup systems to get traffic flowing again, albeit slowly. The New York Times ran a report about this, reminding us of how dependent we are on this sometimes fragile form of technology in our businesses and daily lives:

In Beijing, Wang Yifei, an independent television producer, sent instant telephone messages when her Internet connection was down.

Continue reading "Where are the optical cable guys?"

Live in Shanghai is split up into four major sections -- Fast Facts, Transport, Housing and, of course, Miscellaneous -- and also includes plenty of interactive features, like the "Dress up the Cabs" animation pictured above. The Shanghai Metro Map isn't too shabby, either.

Like many people, Shanghaiist ducked out of the country for a few days over the October 1 holiday. We didn’t go far: just across the water to Seoul.