Results tagged “onsunday”

PLUS LEE KUAN YEW AND HIS ROLE IN SINO-SINGAPORE RELATIONS The last week has seen top leaders zipping between China and Singapore to cement ties and sign new deals. Let's take you through the high-profile visits one by one before diving deeper into more detail (Warning: Long article!): Goh Chok Tong visits new Shanghai party chief and the Singapore-Suzhou Industrial Park Last week, Singapore's Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong swung by Shanghai to visit her...

After a loud and exciting Halloween, tonight is a good chance to head out, sit back and chill to the soothing tunes of The Swamp and 21G at 4Live. Alternatively, composer Mark Chan has put together a live score for the classic, silent Chinese film Little Toys and will be performing it during the film’s screening at the Shanghai Concert Hall. If you are craving excitement, then head to Live Bar where a Beijing Brit-pop...

Killa Kela hasn't been in town that long but, already, he's been getting around. And by 'around', we mean in the doing-lots-of-things sense, not in the slutty sense (unless any readers want to come forward and tell us otherwise...)

We have whined before about the dearth of decent restaurants in Shanghai's airports. Pudong travelers are still better off brown-bagging it, but it seems relief will soon be on the way for domestic travelers: Element Fresh is opening up shop at Hongqiao Airport. From their website:

On Sunday we spent the afternoon at Glamour Bar. No, not to drink cocktails, but for a much more noble purpose: to attend Dai Sijie's session at the Shanghai International Literary Festival (SILF). The session was in French only, and Dai talked about "la part personnelle d'implication dans l'écriture" (to what extend one can use one's personal experiences in one's writings).

The wearing of jammies in public: amongst people who have been in the city for less than 15 minutes, no issue has better served as a focal point for passion and vitriol. But what of the people who have been here longer? The so-called “lifers” who have lived in Shanghai for 16, 17 and, in some cases, 18 minutes? These have been eerily silent on the issue, avoiding it in public conversation, referring to the phenomenon only furtively from behind closed doors and in darkened back rooms.

Manchester City become the latest big European club to swing by China, as more fat cat chairmen attempt to stuff a slice of the lucrative East Asian football market pie in their already obese and money-obsessed faces. The English Premier League side take on Shanghai Shenhua on Friday night in the 2006 Shanghai International Football Tournament.

Last weekend was quite a stunner, what with Japanese punk, Korean horror-movie music, and a new addition to the C's revival (better than "200 people turning up to DKD wearing mp3 players and dancing in their own heads all night"); but we live in the city where 酒不醉人人自醉 ("people, rather than alcohol, enebriate") and with a population of 13 million, the party doesn't stop so easily. Read on for this week's contributions to our city's tradition of bacchanalia.

Shanghai’s rugby sevens tournament returns to the Shanghai Rugby Football Club this weekend, but this time in an “international” format superior to last year’s, thanks to sponsorship from the mighty Guinness. The Guinness Shanghai International 7s Rugby Tournament, as it is now formally known, kicks off on Saturday morning at the SRFC in Jinqiao, Pudong (map), host to the great and good of Shanghai’s expat sporting events (cricket sixes in two weeks, Gaelic football championships the weekend after -- watch this space). Twelve teams are set to compete -- the top four Chinese sevens teams, a Hong Kong team, two Japanese teams, three Shanghai teams, a Nanjing team and a Nantong team -- over Saturday and Sunday. The teams will be divided into two pools, with 24 pool matches played on Saturday and eight on Sunday, following which the knockout stages start taking things down to the final which will start at around 3:30 pm on Sunday. The three Shanghai sides manage to represent the majority of the top international rugby-playing nations (apologies to any Uruguayans out there), comprising as they do the British Bulldogs, the Wobblies (a name to strike fear into the heart of any opposition) -- a healthy mix of Aussies, Kiwis and South Africans -- and a French team whose name temporarily escaped the SRFC coordinator when Shanghaiist spoke to him (“I think it’s ‘Le’ something,” he said). Notorious local side The Hairy Crabs are conspicuously absent, but then we are fast approaching the time of year when the inhabitants of Yangcheng Lake (hairy crabs, for those of you uninitiated to the phenomenon) are besieged by chomping diners, so maybe they’ve gone into hiding. No one sneaked them out in their suitcase to Hong Kong, that’s for sure. Entry to watch the games comes in at a reasonable RMB 30, and for those of you out there of the female persuasion, keen to see “hot guys performing in their natural surroundings” as the flyer so delicately puts it, not only is entry free on Sunday, but ALL your drinks from the Guinness beer tent are, too. Bonza. On Sunday, a bus to the action leaves O’Malleys at 11 am.