Mr Shangguan Junle, the chairman of Haomen Jipin Restaurants, wrote on the Twitter-like Sina Weibo last week that he had decided to stop serving shark's fin from the beginning of this year to 'protect sharks and the environment'. But the 34-year-old entrepreneur felt it would be too wasteful to throw away his remaining stock. more ›

Wow. If this can happen in Taiwan, what are the chances that it'll happen in China too? more ›

In light of the recent wave of anti-shark's fin sentiment kicked off by Hong Kong and Shanghai Hotels Group announcing their ban on shark's fin, shark's fin traders themselves are making their voices heard in a bold, and dare we say slightly ignorant manner. more ›

Recent pictures on the MOP forums have shown images of sharks, mouths gaping open, butchered and put on sale at undisclosed Wal-Mart locations here in China. Nobody says what city they're in, but a disproportionate amount of the posts are found in Shanghai forums. Does that mean this Wal-Mart is somewhere in Shanghai? Yao Ming would not approve. more ›

Yesterday, in a taxi, I came across a commercial for WildAid playing on one of those TouchMedia taxi screens. It starred Yao Ming and was about how, if people could see what really happened to sharks for their sharks fin soup, maybe they wouldn't order it next time. I'm not sure if that actually would impact the majority of people who order sharks fin - Chinese people tend to be pretty sanguine about the slaughtering and butchering of animals - but it was a decent commercial nevertheless. So here it is. more ›

We strongly suspect that this is nothing more than a way to parody Airport Auntie while getting the point across that sharks fin soup is a morally reprehensible delicacy... but there's something about watching Hong Kong people wig out that just tickles our fancy. more ›