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"Prison Break: The Final Break," but for real in real China

"Prison Break: The Final Break," but for real in real China

After a manhunt involving over six thousand security personnel, three of the four escaped convicts were captured and apprehended in a raid today, while the last was shot and killed, says China Daily.

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By Jessica Lau in on October 20, 2009 4:30 PM

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Chinglish cursing: Grass yo mama, too.

We were hoping that they were going to do one of those double episode things and release episodes 11 and 12 of Prison Break at the same time. We had just finished watching episode 11 on a video site and were looking for episode 12, and found this site, which said it had it .

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By Peijin Chen in on February 10, 2008 3:00 AM

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Today's Links: Prison Break, rats and robots


  • Fox: Read My Tattoos, No Prison Break In China

    "News Corporation's (NYSE: NWS.A) Fox Television denied that it has licensed Beijing based media company Zonbo Media to remake American TV series Prison Break or any related online activities in China, reports Beijing Youth Daily."



  • Lawsuit says Ark. company selling counterfeit Budweiser in China

    "Anheuser-Busch Inc. sued USA Bai Wei Group Inc. in Arkansas' Pulaski County Circuit Court, seeking an injunction to revoke Bai Wei's corporate charter and require a name change."



  • Seeing China as it's not

    "Why are these experts, who supposedly know China better than anyone does, so eager to patronize China's leaders, and so reluctant to condemn Chinese repression of dissent?"



  • The Chairman wears Nike

    "This is the cover to Brutus No. 616 (1 May 2007). ... The portrait of Mao wearing Nike is apparently the product of a Chinese artist, though I can’t verify this."



  • 3.9% profit margins in Chinese apparel sector

    "According to government figures, the overall profit margins in the textile industry are only 3.9% - the lowest of any major industry."



  • Tramcar will reappear in Shanghai

    "Some tramcars might be able to run in the Zhangjiang area in Pudong ... Even now, many old local residents in Shanghai still remember such tramcars, which the Shanghai people called 'dang dang che', or 'clanging cars'." Trolleys.



  • NBA Finals Trophy to tour to China in July

    "This first-ever tour is together presented by NBA and the world's leading express and logistics company, DHL. The two will also present other activities in China." Ripped straight from the press release, sounds like.



  • National robot soccer competition in Wuhan

    "The winners will represent China at the Federation of International Robot-soccer Association World Cup in San Francisco on June 13."



  • China rat 'baby boom' blamed on global warming

    "Xinhua News Agency quoted animal husbandry officials in Altay prefecture in northern Xinjiang saying a warm winter had resulted in a 'baby boom' of rats in April, a month earlier than normal."



  • Forbes Cancels China Philanthropy List

    "Ms. Zhang Xiaohua, marketing director for Forbes China, attributed the cancellation to the immaturity of charity in China. 'Chinese entrepreneurs haven't reached a consensus on charity and therefore it is immature to make such a list,' she said."



  • China fines man for violating one child policy

    "A private businessman has been fined 600,000 yuan (US$78,000; euro 58,000) for breaking China’s strict one child policy, state media reported." But is it really that strict?



  • China's Geely in negotiations to export to Turkey, SAfrica - report

    "China's largest non-state-owned carmaker, which has export agreements in place in Indonesia, Russia and Ukraine, declined to give details."



  • 57,000 employed foreigners in Shanghai by end Q1

    "The top 10 countries in terms of number of employed foreign workers were Japan, America, Korea, Singapore, Germany, France, Canada, Malaysia, Australia and Britain." That leaves an awful lot of unemployed.



  • Decaf coffee Available Again

    At Starbucks.



  • The Barbarians Have Crashed the Gate

    "This is the face of Shanghai these days. Not to be all mean'n shit, but how badly would you like to punch one of these Chads in the mouth?"



  • Jim Dandies - boutique selling chic clothes, art

    "One of Shanghai's "undiscovered" shopping gems is Jim Dandies, tucked away opposite IKEA in the Xuhui District. It sells chic clothes and art by painter Yurika (Eureka) Nakae from Suzhou"



  • Accor Increases Boutique Presence In Shanghai

    "Located at Yandang Road, the Pudi Boutique Hotel Shanghai offers 52 rooms whose prices range from RMB4680 per night to RMB14000 per night." Ouch.



  • Wages rising slowly in Shanghai for most

    "It notes that in 2006, the Shanghai Federation of Trade Unions surveyed employees in 250 enterprises. The data showed that 50.6% of employees had not received a wage increase in nearly three years."



  • Who demolished these houses?

    "A report in Beijing Times...has led to a remarkable photo essay on the People’s Daily society link at People.com. Beijing Times had orginally reported on an unidentifed demolition contractor that had moved in to demolish houses in the Chaoyang District."



  • Beijing Websites Apologize For Chinese Porn

    "The two websites are Uusee.com and Zol.com.cn. They have been required to publish formal letters of apology on their front homepages. The website owners have also been ordered to remove the offending content immediately."



  • Great Dragon of China is cut down to size

    Does this story seem a bit late to you?



  • Web opens world for young Chinese, but erodes respect

    "Excited and emboldened by the wealth of information they find on the Internet, Chinese teens are breaking centuries of tradition to challenge their teachers and express their own opinions in class."



  • 'Over-working models' in vogue in big cities

    "Working 10 or more hours a day, almost no days off, no regular meals and lack of sleep - that's the life for 70 percent of the white-collar workers in four of China's big cities, Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Guangzhou."



  • More Than Half Of Chinese Officials Of County Level Believe In Fortune Tellers

    "The report is named《Analytical Report of Basic Science Literacy of County Level Officials in China 》." Explains a lot.



  • Woman kills daughter who can't count

    "Police in southern China have detained a woman after she admitted killing her four-year-old daughter because the child could not count, according to news reports."



  • LETTER OF THE CHINAMEN (1852)

    "When the 'Chinamen' responded to 'His Excellency' with an open letter ... the result was general consternation, followed by support from a number of leading newspapers, and a consequent flurry of articles and editorials."


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    By Dan Washburn in on May 15, 2007 5:41 PM

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    Today's Links: Canada, chocolate and burning puppies


  • China is biggest espionage threat to Canada

    "Almost half of counter-espionage efforts in Canada target Chinese spies, the head of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service told a senate committee on Monday."



  • Songs, kisses and sweat on Labor Day of migrant workers

    "In the prosperous metropolis of Shanghai, migrant workers even joined in performances, singing and dancing and taking part in games to show their talents."



  • Hershey lures Asians with green tea Kisses

    "The century-old Hershey, synonymous with chocolate in the United States but relatively unknown abroad, must learn how to get products to shelves in countries where most shoppers buy from small family-owned grocers and street vendors."



  • FDA limits Chinese food additive imports

    "The Food and Drug Administration is enforcing a new import alert that greatly expands its curtailment of some food ingredients imported from China, authorizing border inspectors to detain ingredients used in everything from noodles to breakfast bars."



  • Underground sex parties rampant

    "A popular buzzword on the Internet these days is the Japanese phrase for 'orgy party' -- Google the term ranko party and you'll come up with hundreds of thousands of hits." NSFW.



  • Dog Rights VS Human Rights

    "An incident of burning dogs in the city of Nanjing drew nearly 17000 comments from web users on Thursday and triggered a huge debate about dog rights."



  • China Real Estate Laws, Part I

    "On March 16, 2007, China adopted a new Property Law, set to become effective on October 1, 2007. This post will be the first in a fairly long series of posts explaining China's real estate laws."



  • China's Stock Mania: The End is Near

    "The current stock market mania in China's mainland has as much in common with the Tulipmania of the 17th century, as it does with the Internet boom of the late 1990s."



  • "You Will Have To Die For Killing The Puppy!"

    "The dogs yelped in the middle of night and disturbed the sleeping humans. The problem can be solved by killing them."



  • Prison Break hero is coming to China

    "The Shanghai-based News Times reported Wentworth Miller as having been invited by Zhongbo Media Group, who have bought the rights from Fox to shoot an online video adaptation of the American hit TV drama."



  • Is China Slowly Poisoning the World?

    "It is probable that melamine is not the major or only culprit in the pet food illnesses and deaths. So then what exactly is causing the recent spate of pet illnesses and deaths?"



  • Something Stinks at 50 Moganshan Lu: It's the Artwork

    "One stroll through M50 leaves me marveling over Shanghai’s capacity to take a novel or original idea, and turn it into absolute crap."



  • China inaugurates 'world's tallest pagoda'

    "China has inaugurated what is believed to be the world's tallest pagoda, which at almost 154 metres reaches even higher than the Great Pyramid of Egypt, state media said today." It's in Changzhou, which we think is in Jiangsu.



  • China denies torturing Canadian

    "Canada's Foreign Minister Peter MacKay said he was assured by his Chinese counterpart Monday that a Canadian Muslim activist serving a life sentence in a Chinese jail for alleged terror links was not tortured."



  • China's children turn backs on proletariat: poll

    "Only one in a 1,000 children in China's financial hub want to grow up to be a common worker, once hailed as the vanguard of class struggle, a Communist Party newspaper said on Monday a day before the Labour Day holiday."



  • CHINA CYCLE 2007, leading bike show held in Shanghai

    "The 17th China International Bicycle & Motor Fair is scheduled on May 4-7, 2007 in Shanghai New International Expo Center. The theme of 2007 edition is 'Science makes dream come true, Innovation creates incentive'."



  • China bans trade in human organs

    "Any doctor found to be involved in such activities will have their licences revoked, while clinics or hospitals will be suspended from doing organ transplant operations for at least three years, it said."



  • School in China to Bear U.S. Law Firm's Name

    "Paul, Hastings, Janofsky &Walker is putting its stamp on China. Literally.The firm is paying at least $40,000 toward the construction of a facility in China's remote Longqui village that will soon bear its name: the Paul Hastings Hope Elementary School."



  • U.S. House members blast China

    "U.S. Congress members [criticized] Beijing's test of an anti-satellite weapon, its military buildup, its policy of forced abortion, its support of ruthless regimes, and its repatriation of North Korean refugees in violation of international law."



  • Passer-by shot in neck as police open fire on Macau protesters

    "The man, in his 50s, was reportedly hit in the neck by a bullet from a police warning shot as he rode a motorbike with his son 300 metres from the scene of the demonstrations Tuesday afternoon."



  • China's Alibaba to seek overseas IPO this year, website says

    "Alibaba, which is part-owned by Yahoo! Inc, plans to list its core business-to-business operation that helps match suppliers in China and elsewhere with purchasers over the Internet, the China Financial Online website said."



  • Asia struggles to stop relentless "pollution calendar"

    "After years of suffering, powerless 'victim' states have turned pollution forecasting into a fine art, setting up sophisticated systems to predict transnational pollution invasions."



  • Dr. Zhang explains table tennis styles

    "Dr. Zhang Xiaopeng, a leading researcher in world table tennis, explains the sport's playing styles ahead of the world table tennis championships."


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    By Dan Washburn in on May 2, 2007 6:03 PM

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    Today's Links: Graveyard tourism, Flickr and free coffee


  • China TV airs "Prison Break" for English study

    "A television station in eastern China which flouted a national ban on U.S. drama 'Prison Break,' said it aired the popular serial on its children's channel for 'English training' purposes, state media reported on Friday."



  • Family of man killed on toilet stop sues

    "Relatives of a man who was crushed by a falling wall while urinating along the street last year are suing a property developer and a demolition company for 510,000 yuan in compensation."



  • Graveyard tries to attract more tourists

    "It will give downtown residents a chance to enjoy nature," said Wang Lan, a deputy manager of the site. "Besides, more than 30 Chinese celebrities are buried in the cemetery, giving it a charming human landscape."



  • Need a pill press? Call Shanghai

    "A Vancouver Sun reporter had offers of pill press delivery from different Shanghai companies within an hour of sending out e-mails requesting information about purchases."



  • Going to the Library in Shanghai

    "I would still recommend the library as a good environment for study and reflection, but it is not without its limitations. Here are a few things worth bearing in mind when you come to Shanghai Library."



  • At last, Gillette gets some competition

    "But today I should at the shelves of Carrefour this 'Hengjie Paomo' shaving foam, just under the products of P&G and for eight renminbi, about one third of the Gillette product. It looks like their designers have also gotten their inspiration from Gillette."



  • Has Amazon stopped shipping to China?

    "Putting the books in my Amazon-cart was no problem, but when I wanted to check-out, the Amazon computer said they would not ship to my address. No explanation given."



  • Yahoo to launch Flickr in China

    It will be in traditional Chinese characters. "After targeting Hong Kong consumers, Flickr's Chinese site will also focus on the Taiwan market, the spokeswoman said, but declined to elaborate on the mainland Chinese market."



  • It's True: I Really, Really Hate Some Smokers

    "While it's all too easy to finger point at Chinese smokers, the group that gets under my skin—and into my clothes, eyes, nose and lungs—are western smokers. They are becoming increasingly odious, i.e., they stink."



  • Free Starbucks coffee draws crowds

    "As waiting crowds grew bigger around 10am, the shop had to ask customers to fetch a number first. Starbucks staff said they delivered more than 100 numbers in half an hour."



  • Missed the free coffee at Starbucks

    "Quite a bit of a crowd in front of the little store, waiting for new coffee being brewed. I might be Dutch, but are not going to wait for an hour for a free coffee. Quite some people seemed happy to do so."



  • Shanghai Starbucks Sucks Decaf

    "Every now and then, hyper from too much caffeine in my blood, I order a decaf. Every time I order this I get first a blank stare after which I’m told, 'We don’t have'. Giving free coffee away is great, listing coffee for sale that is never available sucks."


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    By Dan Washburn in on March 18, 2007 9:43 PM

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    Subtitling subcultures, revisited

    Last August you might have read Howard French's New York Times article on Chinese subtitle teams, which explains who these seemingly anonymous people, who offer Chinese viewers timely, subtitled versions of popular TV shows such as "Desperate Housewives," "Prison Break," and "Lost." The NYT article got a lot of attention from Chinese netizens as well as the media, for example in this recent Chinese article delves further into this subject and works as a good follow-up to French's article.

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    By Peijin Chen in , , on February 16, 2007 2:58 PM

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    Chinese TV: From idiot box back to soapbox？

    From February until August, Chinese TV "golden hours" (5-8pm) programming is going to go on moral diet, shedding excess and unwanted sex, violence, and moral degradation. This we learned from a Chinese report as well as Asia Times Online, where they quoted official Wang Weiping on the matter:

    "The country's satellite TV stations should only screen ethically inspiring TV series during prime time," Shanghai Daily quoted Wang Weiping, an official from the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television.
    It's said that this is just one in a long string of clean-up jobs in the run up to the Olympics. What's wrong with the state of TV? The Asian Times Online says:
    In an attempt to woo audiences many broadcasters have allowed reality TV shows, crime series, featuring heavy dose of violence, as well as shows with explicit sex scenes to feature prominently on Chinese television.

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    By Peijin Chen in on February 2, 2007 11:59 AM

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