Subway trains in Nanjing were delayed along line 2 yesterday, and reports coming out today state that recent heavy rains had a role, by flooding water channels and elevating the underground bed lining which subway track lays on. In a video from one of the stranded trains, passengers mill about annoyed and anxious at the delay, only to then run away in screaming terror when things start going wrong for the train car.
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Watch: Nanjing metro passengers freak out when train car goes awry
Weekend Music Preview: Mao Livehouse Shanghai, GBOB Challenge, and other beats
Oh what a weekend for music. Hopefully, you didn't miss out on the Antidote 4th anniversary party yesterday at C's, but in case you did, there's still a ton of other great music events to hit up.
303,000 Google searchers extremely terrified of Chinese people
Jesus Diaz at Gizmodo typed "I am extremely" into his Google search bar and came up with these results. Hmmm... Maybe it's because we aren't afraid to sue over racial slights.
More on the Bank of China terrorism case
NTDTV speaks to Natan Galkovitch, one of 100 victims of terror in Israel who are now suing the Bank of China for not preventing money that was transferred to the Hamas, and Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, an attorney for the plaintiffs. Among the claims of the suit:
...beginning in July 2003, the Bank of China executed dozens of wire transfers for the terrorist groups totaling several million dollars. Many of the transfers were initiated in the Middle East, sent to branches in the U.S. then to an account at a bank branch in Guanzhou, China, the suit said.more ›
Shanghaiist Halloween Party: Do you like scary movies?
A quick note to interrupt your last-minute Halloween costume shopping (we made our costume yesterday ... you'll definitely hear us coming) to let you know what films we plan to show at the big Shanghaiist Halloween Party on Saturday night. If you haven't been to Shanghai Studio, it's a spooky maze-like place that occupies an old bomb shelter. So if music and dancing are your things, we've got rooms for that. If chatting and drinking are your things, we've got rooms for that, too. For those of you who have "other" activities in mind, there are also plenty of dark hallways and corners for you to do your thing.
Around Asia: Sex, bombs and space ports
Video of Thai pen-spinning club in action [h/t to Asian Offbeat]
Around Asia: Five-power naval exercise, $100,000 air tickets and DPRK to be struck off terror list
As Malaysia celebrates its 50th birthday, the unity of the nation has shown cracks along racial and religious divides. Meanwhile, former premier Mahathir Mohammed is recovering after heart surgery
Crossing The Line - Exclusive Shanghai screenings!
Crossing the Line - a documentary by VeryMuchSo Productions with Koryo Tours
Made-in-China: A Closer Look
The recent hoopla over poisonous, tainted, and otherwise malignant Chinese exports — toothpaste, toys, and pet food, oh my! — has left us with an unpleasant taste in our mouths (and not just the minty-fresh kind). Industrial malfeasance has become the bane of Chinese commerce, and we have no intention of downplaying the unique brand of terror experienced by a parent who realizes he just gave his kid a lead-addled plaything.
Today's Links: Canada, chocolate and burning puppies
"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."
"In the prosperous metropolis of Shanghai, migrant workers even joined in performances, singing and dancing and taking part in games to show their talents."
"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."
"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."
"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.
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The dogs yelped in the middle of night and disturbed the sleeping humans. The problem can be solved by killing them."
"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."
"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?"
"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 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.
"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."
"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."
"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'."
"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."
"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. 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."
"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."
"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."
"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 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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Shanghaiist Reads: SH and City Weekend
This week’s editions of SH and City Weekend, summerviewed. (That’s a combination of summary and review. Look it up.)
This Week In -ist: Elsewhere in the Gothamist Network
You know who's going to be upset about those Bikini Bandits? The Houston school system. Houstonist also reports on some redevelopment shenanigans over a landmark theater.
This Week In -ist: Elsewhere in the Gothamist Network
Torontoist (where it's 75 degrees F as of this writing) is keeping things cool this summer, nudity and blood optional. Less cool are the comments in this post about a hipster auctioning off crap so she can buy a house. And no summer would be complete without the twin guilty pleasures of crap dining and crap TV: get them both with Torontoist's interview with "Rockstar: Supernova" star Lucas Rossi and a look at the safety ratings of some of Toronto's favorite greasy spoons.
This week in -ist: What’s happening around the Gothamist Network
DCist is screwed in the event of an oil crisis. Not that we're not all screwed in the event of an oil crisis, just D.C. is more screwed. Don't sell your car yet, District resident, a cabbie can kick you to the curb if he doesn't like your address. Not even Metro can save you now.
This week in -ist: What's happening around the Gothamist Network
Torontoist throws down the gauntlet and challenges all comers: pillow fight, bitch. They also stand up for a fellow blogger taking heat from the TTC and welcome city-wide WiFi.
Notes from the underground: Weekend music picks
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.
Terror in the Middle Kingdom?
It seems that even in China, Americans cannot escape the strong arm of Osama bin Laden. According to the US Embassy in Beijing, "Chinese police advised hotels that Islamic extremist elements could be planning to attack four and five star hotels in China sometime over the course of the next week." And Shanghaiist thought that the local Xinjiangren only pawned assorted dried fruits and yangrou chuan down on the street corner. How can we have been so naive?
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