Following their somewhat bizarre picture last month of Obama and a "dapper" donkey, the latest person to grace Baidu's homepage gives a slightly clearer message. The picture is of "Wheelchair Angel" (as she's been dubbed in some sections of the press) Jin Jing clutching the Olympic Torch to her chest, a position she adopted when pro-Tibetan protestors tried to snatch the flame from her in Paris last month. Clicking on the picture takes you through......

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Is_Chinese_search_engine_Baidu_endorsing_Barack_Obama'; Or is Barack just fishing for the Asian American vote? (Get it? He's throwing a net? Nets are sometimes used in fishing? Ah, f*ck it. It's late.) Anyway, when we first saw this, just minutes ago (thanks, Sage) we went, "Huh?" Odd, no? Check Baidu out for yourself. Pacific Epoch tries to explain: Baidu has chosen US presidential candidate Barack Obama as the sixth face to grace its homepage logo. Following......

An Associated Press video on the Taiwanese Presidential elections Just in time for Easter, YouTube has come back from the dead after an absence of around a week. As we reported last week, the block was most likely due to certain sensitive content, a move that has left some people questioning whether Google/YouTube were involved at all. Unfortunately, its resurrection doesn't appear to be fully complete — some video clips don't seem to load......

From Danwei: In this episode of Danwei TV's 'The Shanghai Beat', host Adam Schokora meets up with Sean Leow and B6, co-founders of the Neocha.com. The video ends with a performance by Shanghainese indie-pop trio Hard Queen. Also on Shanghaiist Yet another Gay Shanghai video NeoCha and Neospring Creative Festival Are you creating quality fresh, informative and entertaining videos about Shanghai or elsewhere in China? Email us at info at shanghaiist.com and we can discuss......

Yet. For those who like to keep up to date on Shanghai-English-language-website news — yes, all three of you — head on over to Urbanatomy.com. That's the future home of a new website from the folks at That's Shanghai. And if Urbanatomy.com is as half as good as thatssh.com ... someone seriously needs to be fired over there, because thatssh.com is really quite awful. But they know that — hence the new site. But why......

World Car Free Day, September 22 Ever thought of what you're doing to offset your carbon footprint? This Saturday, instead of driving your car or taking a taxi, why don't you try taking public transport, cycling or walking instead? Residents will be asked to avoid driving private cars within the Inner Ring Road, and while compliance is not mandatory, driving will be banned outright in some areas. Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋节), September 25 As the mercury......

The Xinmin Evening Post announced today the winners of the third annual City of Shanghai Outstanding Website Awards. This year a committee of specialists chose 58 winners in 13 categories to receive awards, categories including Best Portals, E-Commerce Sites, Sites serving Women and Children, Higher Education Websites, and Sites for the "New Countryside". The website that the Evening Post chose to highlight was the near-to-our-hearts Shanghai Daily, the only English-language site out of nine to......

Fox: Read My Tattoos, No Prison Break In China "News Corporation's (NYSE: NWS.A) Fox Television denied that it has licensed Beijing based media company Zonbo Media to remake American TV series Prison Break or any related online activities in China, reports Beijing Youth Daily." Lawsuit says Ark. company selling counterfeit Budweiser in China "Anheuser-Busch Inc. sued USA Bai Wei Group Inc. in Arkansas' Pulaski County Circuit Court, seeking an injunction to revoke Bai Wei's......

Top labor scams listed "5. Companies ask job applicants to submit design work prior to an interview. The works are often used commercially later even if the applicant didn't get the job." What to do with a visitor in Shanghai? Part 3 - An Evening in Pudong Title says it all. Baidu Removes Porn From Search Results "Since March 12, Baidu's search results page has been showing pornographic photos when users input Chinese characters......

With the sun out, the temperatures high, one can only think of one thing-- what's going on in the World of the -ist's? Bostonist dug deep to uncover Barack Obama's unpaid parking tickets, their Governor's latest ethical lapse, and a plagarizing sports writer. Chicagoist had everything in twos: two views on having the Olympics, losing two members of their Super Bowl team, and two music festivals. DCist put their noses in legal books as......

This is funny. ShanghaiDaily.com has stopped time-stamping its stories with the text "Beijing Time" because many news sources -- including several other state-owned papers -- assumed that Shanghai Daily had simply copied the information from a paper called the Beijing Time (there actually is a Chinese-language paper called the Beijing Times). (To the right, see an example from Sina.com, which, it seems, got the erroneous attribution from Xinhua.) The Shanghai Daily editor explains on his......

The JW Marriott is now officially Shanghai's 25th five-star hotel. Shanghai has 40 four-star hotels and 125 three-star hotels. But ... 23 of the city's hotels were just de-listed from the star-ranking systemShanghai's Maglev train may eventually link the Pudong and Hongqiao airports. Also, two more highways heading to the Pudong airport are set to be built.A woman is Sichuan died from the bird flu. Seven of the 10 humans in China who have contracted......

The China Super League season is winding down and the city's ticket scalpers are as busy as ever ... hocking tickets for Mid-Autumn Festival moon cakes. Some of these entrepreneurs are internet savvy, too, the Shanghai Daily reports: At some large bakeries on busy downtown streets, the scalpers were hovering like vultures yesterday asking to buy mooncake coupons as well as selling them. The scalpers usually buy the coupons for half the price of the......

Seriously, it could happen. From Xinhua: A recent survey on "how you address your peers or bosses" conducted by Zhaopin.com, one of China's influential web sites, showed that 66 percent of Chinese employees call their peers by full name or simply given name, Seventeen percent call their peerswith their English names, 5 percent like to address their colleagues "brothers" or "sisters", while only 1 percent is still inclined to use the term "comrade". The sample......