This week in Shanghaiist
By JFK Miller
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add to facebookWorld Bank President Robert Zoellick on Monday praised Vietnam as a "tremendous success story" in fighting poverty but said institutional reforms were needed as it seeks middle-income country status.
Our round-up of some of last week's highlights from China's English-language blogosphere:
Continue reading "China Blog Parade: July 8-15, 2007"
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Continue reading "Today's Links: Toothpaste, melting glaciers, and expensive art"
"Tough-talking Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi is to meet with key Congressional panels during her visit to Washington this month for a "strategic economic dialogue" launched by the two powers in December, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said."
A survey found that the standard of living of migrant workers isonly about one half of that of city residents.
"The police officer's actions in firing his revolver in the air sparked further fierce clashes with protesters and was attacked by critics as heavy-handed and an affront to freedom of expression."
"St. Lucia indicated last week that if it resumed relations with Taipei, it would still want to be friends with Beijing. The Chinese Embassy sent a rebuff on Friday, saying that China does not accept 'double recognition.'"
"With no more investment than a computer and a taste for taking risks, several dozen Webbased investigative journalists have set up sites and started advertising their willingness—for a price—to look into scandals that traditional reporters cannot tou
"Authorities believe Mak, a naturalized U.S. citizen, took thousands of pages of documents from his defense contractor employer, Power Paragon of Anaheim, and gave them to his brother, who passed them along to Chinese authorities over a number of years."
"...A much larger inheritance battle has transfixed Hong Kong residents: a will purported to have been written by one of the world's wealthiest women, Nina Wang, leaving her feng shui adviser an estate estimated at more than $3 billion."
"From June 1 any official found to be keeping a mistress will face dismissal. Government officials, who are usually men, frequently socialise in the evening as part of their job. "
"A bear riding a bicycle is chased by his trainer during an animal performance for the Chinese May Day holidays at the Shanghai Wild Animal Park."
"Colonial-era war graves in Hong Kong have been left riddled with schoolboy spelling errors, including China spelt Cihna and Hong Kong spelt Honc Honc after a renovation project, a news report said on Wednesday."
"Danshui Lu is so warmly old school urban living, it begs the question: what bad road is life taking us down when we forgo this type of community living for an overly stylized, space wasting, luxury flat on the 27 floor of some soulless concrete tower?"
"Chinese police have received more than 13,000 reports about pornographic material on the internet since the nation launched a campaign to restrict the spread of online pornography on April 12." Only 13,000?
"The comment was among insights Yang shared with more than 1,000 Chinese and US technology entrepreneurs gathered in the California city of Santa Clara to discuss opportunities and challenges presented by the meteoric growth of China's economy."
"Tourists disgusted by stinking toilets at Chinese tourist sites or even angrier because they can't locate it are in for a pleasant surprise in east China - a 'restroom revolution' is taking shape before their eyes and noses."
"Chinese netizens spend ten times more money on the internet than people in developed countries. A World Bank report ... reports Chinese netizens spend an average of 83.5 yuan on the internet every month, more than 10 percent of their monthly income."
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Last Saturday, Shanghaiist was invited to attend the unveiling of Shanghai's newest gallery space, m97. Once we negotiated the tricky shared building entrance, we made our way to the second floor and was immediately impressed by the physical space and airy nature of the gallery. The grand opening featured an exhibition of by emerging Beijing photographer and artist Jiang Zhi titled "Things Would Turn Simpler Once They Happened". Immediately we had diametrically opposing thoughts. "How were these photos taken?", and "I don't quite get it...". We wished that our interpretation of the photographic exhibition was as simple as the exhibition's title, but we assume this is the art part of the exhibition. Here's a little about Jiang Zhe (pictured below) and his exhibit from information posted by m97.
Continue reading "m97 Gallery and Jiang Zhi: Blinded by the lights"
Chinese media reported yesterday that Guangzhou is set to become the first city in China to be recognised as 'developed' under World Bank standards, which define developed cities as those with a per capita GDP of over US$10,000.
Continue reading "Guangzhou set to be first 'developed' city in China"
We're a bit confused here: We just read a report (in Chinese) that says 70 mayors of Chinese cities have signed agreements that make World Car Free Day -- September 22 -- somewhat official. However, it seems that Beijing tried this in 2005 in an attempt to meet "blue sky" goals. Supposedly Chengdu was the first Chinese city back in 2001 to try to do something for WCFD. After the signing of this agreement, most of China's big cities, such as Chongqing, Tianjin, Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, etc. are on board. Not only are they going to encourage more people to walk, bike and use public transit, they might even carve out a no-car zone in parts of the cities.
Continue reading "World Car Free Day made official in Shanghai?"
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