China has a moratorium on building golf courses, so how are we now getting 22 of them that take up an area 1.5 times the size of Manhattan on Hainan Island? Shanghaiist founding editor Dan Washburn takes an in depth look at Mission Hills Hainan. [Financial Times Weekend Magazine]
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HSBC Champions now truly 'Asia's major' golf tournament
Already properly leaked, rumored and reported, the International Federation of PGA Tours made it official Tuesday morning at a press conference at the Shangri-La Hotel in Pudong: Shanghai's HSBC Champions golf tournament has been elevated to World Golf Championship status. To many in the golf world, this immediately makes the HSBC event, which has called Shanghai home since its 2005 debut, the most prestigious golf tournament outside of the United States and the United Kingdom. That China — which opened its first golf course in 1984 and currently has no professional golfers in the global top 100 — has been chosen as the locale for such an event speaks volumes about China's role in the current global marketplace. It's also a strong indicator that golf's governing bodies realize globalization, with Asia being the primary focus, is the key to the sport's survival in an increasingly harsh economic environment.
Today's Links: DUI, Nanking and banned books
"The city will ensure the construction of Line 6, Line 8 and the first phase of Line 9 by the end of 2007, the Shanghai Construction and Transport Commission announced." We'll see.
"Shanghai issued a batch of special 'tourist passports' yesterday to provide discounts, ranging from 10 percent to 50 percent, on tickets to the city's tourist attractions."
"A team of 30 officers will patrol suburban streets and downtown entertainment areas at least twice a week during the Spring Festival period on the lookout for drunk drivers. Offenders will face a fine of up to 2,000 yuan (US$250) and 15 days in detention."
"China Central Television (CCTV) that CCTV has purchased the China broadcast rights to the ABC show Grey's Anatomy, reports Nanfang City Daily quoting an inside source. The report said that CCTV has not decided when to broadcast the show."
"Baidu sued its former partnerships manager, who joined Google in 2006, for revealing business secrets to Google. Hearings have already been held for the case on December 14, 2006 and January 15, 2007, said the insider."
"When train is approaching, there are broadcast to notify people about the number of train carts in the coming train, so people don't need to wait before the rest of the gates, where there will be no train carts."
"If the Chinese Government is angry or displeased with the Japanese film being released this year called ‘The Truth about Nanjing”, then they are hiding it very well. ... [D]irector Satoru Mizushima ... announced that was going to produce the ... film to as he says, 'Correct the errors of history'."
"GAPP's deputy director Wu Shulin produced a list of banned books from 2006 and threatened to slap publishers who defy the ban with stiff financial penalties. Of the eight books on the list, seven were blackballed because their contents 'stepped over the line.'"
"GAPP has responded to reports that it banned eight books in January. Singapore's Lianhe Zaobao quotes a representative of the Administration's Department of Books and Publishing: 'The issue of banning is nonexistent; this time we have not banned a single book.'"
"Rape of Nanking - Nanjing Massacre. Japanse Atrocities in Asia. Part I of 2. This documentary is based on 20 years research and consists entirely of archival photos and film-clips."
"Chinese authorities are considering setting up a non-bank money exchange outlet in Shanghai, as China pushes for free conversion of renminbi into foreign currencies, a government source said yesterday."
"Many couples just come to get the certificate with casual dress on, and no friends or family members in attendance. We'd like to remind people that actually getting the marriage certificate is divine and solemn."
"The Dalai Lama accused Beijing today of using a new railway link to flood Tibet with beggars, prostitutes and the unemployed, destroying its culture and traditions."
"Omega have signed a contract to be the title sponsor for the tournament's move to Mission Hills in China through to 2018 and it is hoped that with a powerful backer of this magnitude, the event will regain some of its flagging prestige. "
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"Shanghai's three best brewers of coffee were chosen at a competition in the city yesterday, based on their ability to brew up a good cup of espresso, cappuccino and their own signature blend."
"The city had nine Grade 3, or 'slightly polluted, days in January, three times last year's monthly average, the environmental bureau said yesterday."
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