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Beijing Capital Airport's spanking new Terminal Three opens this Friday. The Norman Foster-designed building is being touted as the largest building in the world. And it is colossal. To give you an idea of just how big it is, the terminal is the size of 170 soccer fields put together, and that is 17 percent more floor space than all of London Heathrow's five terminals put together! The terminal is shaped like the character 人 which means people, and its design reminds one of the dragon, complete with 'scales' oriented south-east to capture as much of the winter sun as possible.

Xinhua: British PM visits Shanghai

If you've been browsing the DVD shops lately, you might have already come across Nanking, a documentary—of sorts—about the Nanjing massacre of 1937. The film consists of three elements: first-person accounts from survivors and eye witnesses, including Chinese civilians and soldiers as well as Japanese soldiers. These are all real people, telling their stories on film. Then there actors portraying some of the people, mostly Europeans and Americans, that played a role in setting up...

It's been a while since we bought a bottle of Chinese wine -- we occasionally trawl through the wine aisles in the supermarkets, but our eyes glaze over when we see some of the prices. Nevertheless, we'd like to know: What kinds of Chinese wines are (don't laugh) good? This article from The Independent tells us that wines are a growth industry in China:

The Rolling Stones arrived in Shanghai yesterday and the media noticed. We read a couple of these stories before we got bored.

We just put our copy of China's first Rolling Stone in a protective bag -- it might be more of a collector's item than we previously imagined. The Independent is reporting that less than one month after it's debut, the popular glossy has been forced to stop publication:

Without question, the major drawback of China's rapid economic growth has been the tremendous negative impact on the environment. Now officials at the Ministry of Agriculture and the State Environmental Protection Administration say that the Bohai sea--China's largest internal sea--has reached a tipping point. If measures are not taken to curb the dumping of pollutants into the sea from its tributary rivers, officials warn, the Bohai sea will be "dead" in as little as 12 years.

Following the publication of two reports (here and here) by China Labor Watch and the National Labor Committee back in mid-December, it would appear that the US retailing behemoth Wal-Mart may find itself up against it, even in the smallest of ways. Fifteen workers from developing countries around the world, including China, have had a class-action suit filed on their behalf, claiming that they were paid less than the minimum wage, had overtime payments withheld and were, in some cases, beaten by their superiors in the workplace.