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On February 11th, a Chinese couple from Zhejiang, while shopping at the famous high-end retail group Galeries Lafayettes on a Paris tour, was accused of using a counterfeit note, then brought to a police station, questioned and searched “insultingly” then accused a second time at the same cashier of using a fake banknote, although it had been proven genuine by a bank expert.

Olympic Games will take place in Pékin and not in Beijing

“The French have committees for everything. … After much discussion, the geographers and linguists of the CNT have decided that the rest of the world has it wrong. ‘Beijing’ must be spelled ‘Pékin’.”

China anti-graft Web site felled by “too many hits”

“A Chinese government Web site encouraging citizens to report corruption crashed on its first day under the weight of too many hits. China’s National Bureau of Corruption Prevention … launched its official Web site (yfj.mos.gov.cn) on Tuesday.”

Totally Shanghai Magazine Website

Has anyone heard of this magazine? And if they were going to choose to steal a website’s design, why would they choose That’s Shanghai’s?

Report: Apple, already looking at China, now in talks to launch Phone in Japan

“Apple Inc. is negotiating with Japan’s top mobile phone carrier to launch the iPhone in Japan, though the cut of subscriber revenue that Apple wants has been a sticking point, according to a report published Tuesday.”

A few weeks ago principal shooting wrapped on director Hu Xueyang's (胡雪杨) latest film, Shanghai 1976 (《上海1976》), a Cultural Revolution era romance involving two half-Chinese half-Caucasian sisters, daughters of a missionary. Here's the IMDB plot summary:

Shanghai 1976 is a moving story that tells the tale of a forbidden love and of the loss of innocence in Shanghai, China, in the turbulent year 1976. Four young people come of age and fall in love against the backdrop of political and historical events. Their heritage reflects Shanghai's cosmopolitan history. Two Eurasian girls, sisters, meet and fall in love with two Chinese men. As their lives become more entangled, they find themselves ostracized. While the Great Cultural Revolution unravels around them, these four begin to dream new dreams, to reach for freedom and to nurture hope for a brighter future.

The film stars noted French actor Jean-Hugues Anglade, who starred in films such as Betty Blue (The original French title is 37°2 le matin) and plays the role of a priest and father of the two girls in the film. For the role, Anglade visited a former reeducation through labor camp (link/article in French) in Anhui province.