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Tonight could have been the night that changed your life. The (International) Noise Conspiracy, "one of the wildest and most uncompromising live acts out there" flying in from Sweden, were to take total charge over the Yuyintang stage, but thanks to certain National Day-flavored machinations, it was cancelled.

This news just in from Shanghai Daily:

FIVE workers were injured in an explosion at a demolished building near Shanghai's landmark Jin Mao Tower in Pudong New Area this morning, Eastday.com reported.

Continue reading "Breaking News: Pudong gas blast injures 5"

UPDATE: As stated in this comment, Shanghaiist was contacted via email by the Director of Sales & Marketing of Shanghai Golden Sands F&B Management Ltd., the company running the two establishments mentioned in this report. He requested that we take the story down and issue a retraction. He also threatened legal action. The author of the post stands by his story, and says his sources included current employees of Trader Vic's. In his comment below, the Shanghai Golden Sands F&B Management Ltd. spokesman said: "It is absolutely not true the [sic] any of our restaurants are going to close in the future." We have asked Shanghai Golden Sands F&B Management Ltd. for more to their side of the story, asking which specific statements in the story they would like to refute on record. We will happily add their comments or any official company statement to this post. Stay tuned. Ed.

A stampede in a Chongqing Carrefour hypermart has left 3 dead, 24 injured and another 7 seriously injured. The culprit? Cooking oil. As part of its 10th anniversary celebrations, a 5-litre bottle of cooking oil that was originally priced at RMB51.40 was to be sold at only RMB39.90. This news was enough to get Chongqingers to start queueing from as early as 4am in the morning. Sometime around 8.20am when the doors were finally open,...

This photo was taken at the Changshu Lu subway station yesterday. See that new yellow sign? It says:

When the alarm starts sounding and the platform screen door lights start to blink, please do not board or alight the train.

When the doors of the train closed, he was unable to step back onto the platform as the glass safety doors had closed, trapping him between the safety doors and the train. When the train started to move the man was pulled under the car and killed, police said.

Videos of the Zhengzhou student riots that we mentioned in our last post have now surfaced on the internet. In addition to the one on the right, which is from a news broadcast, we also found this jerky, blurry, cameraphone video of some students trying to overturn a car. To recap: Situation started with a female student vendor getting violently beaten by two city inspectors (城管) to the point that some of her teeth were knocked out. News of this spread, and up to about 1,000 students from various universities gathered and took to the streets to vent their displeasure. After a seven hour stand-off the streets were cleared; five students were detained, the injured girl is receiving treatment at a local hospital and six city inspectors were investigated and will receive punishment for actions relating to the incident.

We know a little something about the ladies: when it's that time of the month, the last thing you need is the unwanted attentions of men. So, if you want to close the doors and shutter the windows for a week, we can understand -- but would you make an exception for Yao Ming? The Yao Ming tampon, that is?

• .. .train tickets have changed every-so-slightly? In a move to make the process more friendly to visitors from abroad, train stations are now printing the departure and destination city names in English, just below the original Chinese. Since the departure time and car/seat numbers are written in the other international language (numbers), the only thing left to fully interpret a ticket is the bottom/middle/top character on sleeper train tickets.

Without question, the award for "Comedy News of the Week" goes to ... The Cat-Burglar Monkey! Oh he doesn't burgle cats, it's just ... we'll let China Daily do the writing:

There has been much ado in recent days about Shanghai’s “vertical traffic jams.” No, not the mad rush to get to the top floor of the Shanghai Post Museum (though we hear that place has been off the hook since our scoop). Rather, getting stuck in an elevator queue at the office.

Here's an interesting one: a competition to find the sound that is most representative of Shanghai. Set up by the British Consulate and the Shanghai Oriental Publicity Service Centre, the competition requires contestants to record an mp3 file of the sound they choose, and write an explanation of it in 100 words of less.

• Fudan's first course on homosexuality has been a resounding success, according to this Xinhua report (in Chinese), which states that there are never empty seats in the classroom and students are literally jammed into the aisles and out the doors. They've even started new curricula to meet the demand. Other interesting facts -- there are estimated to be 30 million homosexuals in China, and 80-90 percent are or are preparing to marry members of the opposite sex.
• A man from Dengfeng in Henan province, where the Shaolin temple is located, decided to name his recently born son Hu D, with the "D" being the actual English letter "D". The hospital and the local public security bureau weren't too keen on that, so made him choose a Chinese character for "D", which Hu did reluctantly. What's the big deal about this anyway? Some people said it was too Western, though in the West no one other than rappers have the privelege of using one letter names.
• A word to the wise: men, don't linger too long in the lingerie store or section, because old ladies and other sexually repressed and generally unpleasant people will give ya a hard time (article in Chinese). According to the story, men who either go alone or with their significant others to lingerie or underwear stores might find themselves the subject of unwelcome attention -- you know, the whispers, the stares, the cone-shaped hat, etc. Guys, maybe flipping through Victoria's Secret catalogue would be a better idea, and it's not a bad way to spend an afternoon, either.

Chinese cities are notorious for their pace of change. In particular, restaurants and bars tend to open and close with stunning speed. The editors of Lonely Planet must have a nightmare on their hands trying to keep track of it all. In fact, Shanghaiist’s edition of LP -- which we think has only just been superseded -- includes entries for Rollo di Pollo (a pizza restaurant at the back of M on the Bund) and Shanghai Sally’s, among other anachronisms. And last year, Time Out released a Shanghai guide which, in the space of about two or three pages, mentioned Cotton’s, Red on Anfu Lu, the Kiwi Bar and a bunch of other venues that had already sadly departed. (Okay, nobody was too sad about the Kiwi closing).

) has the proprietors of neighboring "mom and pop" stores bracing for what will surely be a huge negative impact on their business.