CNN's Fareed Zakaria asks Singapore prime minister Lee Hsien Loong a few questions about China in a recent interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Video and transcript after the jump... more ›

• Cheese, chocolate, banking, watches, and neutrality. All of our favorite things about Switzerland. Now we can get experience all of them thanks to the Swiss Chamber of Commerce presenting Swiss Week. From October 18-25th you can experience a whole week of Swiss and Swiss-related events ranging from movies, to books and food. [City Weekend]
• 1421 author Gavin Menzies will be visiting Shanghai to give a series of lectures about how China discovered everything and is responsible for everything. Shanghai Talk interviewed him. Read the crazy. [Shanghai Talk]
• In a continuing string of exciting new museum and exhibition openings, Shanghai Normal University announced the opening of a textbook exhibit that explores the history of textbooks in China since the turn of the 19th century. And we thought things had peaked with the fungus museum. [Shanghai Daily]

The Brits are trying to pretend it isn't happening, and the Americans didn't realise it was in the first place, but Euro2008 is now fully underway. more ›