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And in a class all by itself, the US$1 trillion(1,000,000,000,000) club. On Monday, the 4 billion A-share offering, priced at 16.7 yuan per share, finished its first day of trading on the Shanghai Stock Exchange at 43.96 yuan, rising as high as 48 yuan intraday. At US$1.005 trillion, PetroChina’s market cap is more than twice that of its US peer, Exxon Mobil (USD $486 billion), even though Exxon Mobil generated four times as much revenue...

Browsing the Ditiezu.com (Subway-ers) BBS, we came across some interesting tidbits:

From this blog we found an article that had been taken from news.163.com about a school for the children of migrant workers' in Shanghai that was forcibly shut down by the police. The Jian Ying School (建英学校) on Dan Ba Lu (丹巴路）was given an ultimatum on January 5 that the school had to be shut down by January 8. On Monday morning around 6 am, people, including parents, onlookers, and journalists, gathered around the school. The police brought large buses that they used to take the students away (where?), and as tension escalated people surrounded the bus and argued with the police.

On Monday, at a workshop held under the UN sponsored Internet Governance Forum in Athens, Greece, Chinese diplomat Yang Xiaokun set a new world record in cognitive dissonance as he explained in an exchange with BBC anchor and session moderator, Nik Gowing, that there is no internet censorship in China.

If Shanghaiist had a yuan for every time someone back home asked "So, you have tickets to the Olympics yet?!", we would be rolling in the coinage like Scrooge McDuck. Beijing, Shanghai, it's all the same to them. On Monday, Olympic fever hit another high as the Beijing Olympic committee unveiled the official "pictographs" that will represent each of the events to be held at the 2008 games. In addition to the official "running man" logo that has been plastered all over official and counterfeit souvenirs since the Beijing games were announced, 35 other designs were created with the same idea in mind.