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McDonald's, KFC, and Pizza Hut have been accused of paying part-time workers less than the minimum wage in various Chinese cities, Chinese labor officials found.

We may still, as we did in elementary school, scorn philately as a hobby for losers, but now we realize that there's good money in it if you have some business sense. Take for example the first batch of Chinese postal stamps issued in 2007, featuring a pig with five piglets (because the Year of the Pig is coming up) and the characters for ding hai nian (丁亥年), which is the name of the upcoming year under the system used in the traditional Chinese calendar. In Shanghai people lined up outside places where stamps were being sold and predictably, as supply ran low and then ran out, prices rose from the original price of 12 RMB to 45 RMB for a pack of 10. In the article we just linked to, the stamp is called the 富贵猪 (fu gui zhu or "rich pig") while in another article what appears to be the same stamp is called the 和气猪 (he qi zhu) which means "the agreeable or pleasant" pig.

From our friends at Danwei.org, we learned of yet another nifty website, search.adsotrans.com. What is it? In a post titled "Cheat sheet for foreign journalists and PR people," this is how Danwei described it:

Manchester City become the latest big European club to swing by China, as more fat cat chairmen attempt to stuff a slice of the lucrative East Asian football market pie in their already obese and money-obsessed faces. The English Premier League side take on Shanghai Shenhua on Friday night in the 2006 Shanghai International Football Tournament.

Further proof that indie rock is this decade's grunge and thanks to its burgeoning popularity and "hipness" is doomed to die a slow, watered down, homogenized death (and will probably lead to another reactionary slew of Britneys and boy bands in about eight years or so): Vogue China has a story about "indie music" in its June 2006 issue.

The English translations of the top 10 phrases used in Chinese newspapers in 2005 are:

The July 30 overnight party at the Jinshanling section of the Great Wall held earlier this year was the last of its kind. Due to severe public criticism of the event, the company that once held the lease and the rights to this section of the wall has had its lease revoked. Reader, please observe a moment of silence to yourself. Thank you.

It was just a matter of time. Shanghai now has its first drive-thru restaurant -- excuse us, "auto shuttle restaurant," as Xinhua likes to call it. The "cylinder-shaped three-storey building" is owned by the Shanghai Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) Co. Ltd., so we're guessing it's a drive-thru KFC. The English version of the story doesn't say where the restaurant is -- details, details -- but the Chinese version tells us it's on Kongjiang Lu, which appears to be a pretty long street in Yangpu District. They didn't offer us a cross-street. (Any intrepid Shanghaiist readers want to hunt this down for us? We would, but we don't have a car. Nor do we eat KFC.)

Here's a useful tourist map of Shanghai -- it labels 14 choice spots to go kill yourself.