It's heeeeereeee - Shanghai Disneyland is breaking ground and beginning construction this Friday. more ›

• Desperate women have been swindled out of tens of thousands of yuan by a man posing to be a potential husband, who in reality was already married and had three kids. Local police have warned single women to take care.
• New York University has started construction on its second major international campus here in Shanghai. The teaching will remain the same as the campuses in New York and Abu Dhabi as the university has been given independent status. No Chinese censorship?
• Apparently there is too much music in Shanghai, so much so that audience numbers are dwindling. A lack of motivation and self-promotion is to blame. It seems there can be too much of a good thing after all.

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Phew! Today's traffic was busy and bustling thanks to the Qingming Festival - that yearly holiday that the Chinese use to pay respects to the dead by sweeping tombs and burning offerings (sometimes, annoyingly, in your stairwells). Shanghai Daily predicted that there would be traffic jams and overcrowded buses. After all, over 1.4 million people and 127,000 vehicles had already gone to and left cemetaries in the past 48 hours and this would have been the day for all the procrastinators and traditionalists to get their business done. Well, if our misguided attempts to traverse Shanghai's streets were any indication, they were right. But anyhow, hope everybody had a happy Tomb Sweep day! [Shanghai Daily] more ›

Ok folks, it’s official! Now that the State Council has released its 2009 holiday schedule, we can start our planning and make full use of the precious vacation time for the coming year. more ›