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Well isn't this a treat! Thanks in part to the solar eclipse, Shanghai's going to get a dash of royalty on Wednesday. Shanghai Daily has reported that "Thailand's Princess" will be in the city to watch the metereological event from a special stand at Jinshan City Beach. They didn't specify which Thai princess would be coming along, though we're guessing its Her Royal Highness Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, just because she tends to be the one in the news more. If anyone makes it to Jinshan Beach (it's still open to the public) on Wednesday morning, make sure to make sure for us.

• Shanghai Hongqiao and Shanghai Pudong are "destined" to be consolidated - though noone knows when the integration will happen. [Trading Markets]
• Paul French visits the Hong Kong Museum of History and has a few choice words to say about how Hong Kong compared back in the day. It was no Shanghai. [China Rhyming]
• You probably voted in their Best of Shanghai awards, now hit up That's Shanghai Best of Food & Drink voting section. [Urbanatomy]

Following the birth of 2009's first panda cub in Thailand (on May 29 at the Chiang Mai Zoo), Chinese experts have now expressed their intention to make sure the vitality of the father gets passed on to all the pandaettes in China.

Due to the ongoing riots in Thailand, the Chinese government has issued a warning suggesting that tourists postpone their trips into the country. According to the Chinese Embassy in Bangkok, all Chinese travelers in the country are currently believed to be fine, but that the unstable political situation should be taken into account. Many tourism companies insisted they had modified their tours to stay away from places near the riots and could guarantee the safety of Chinese tourists, however they would refund delayed or canceled trips. Last week, the riots, carried out by supporters of ousted ex-Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, forced the shutdown of the ASEAN convention and the quick evacuation of some of Asia's top leaders from the country. Yesterday, they escalated into violent confrontations with troops, leaving scores wounded and two dead.

Air China, China Eastern and China Southern have dispatched special charter flights to bring home stranded Chinese tourists caught in Bangkok during the recent anti-government protests there.

Due to the ongoing political turmoil in Bangkok, Shanghai's municipal tourism bureau has issued an order to travel agencies here to suspend all trips to Thailand pending further notice and to help all stranded Chinese tourists return as soon as flights resume. The Chinese Embassy has confirmed that up to 1,000 Chinese tourists have been left stranded in Thailand. A dispatch by the Associated Press on how the chaos at Suvarnabhumi Airport has struck a major blow to the Thai tourism industry quotes a 44 year old Shanghai-based French executive by the name of Fred Thierry as saying his company is now thinking twice about a new investment that was planned for Thailand due to its political instability. That investment may now be shifted to China.

"China has deployed more than 8,000 soldiers and military reservists to help search and rescue efforts in the south-west after an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.8 killed 38 people."

"'As soon as we get it from Hong Kong and bring it over and unlock it.' ... Asked about claims that the new iPhones could not be hacked, he replied: 'The Chinese are very quick at unlocking iPhones. They used to say that the PSP couldn't be hacked as well, but we hacked it,' referring to Sony's PlayStation Portable game console." We believe the price they quote for an iPhone — 3,000 kuai — is for the earlier model. Story says new iPhones are going for upwards of US$860 in Thailand and US$600 in Hong Kong, where users must sign a two-year contract. [Source: IHT]

Wonder if Scottish golfer Colin Montgomerie thought his whining about not getting an invite to play in next weekend's Masters Tournament (while lower ranked Asian golfers, including China's top player Liang Wenchong, did get special invites) would open up this can of worms.