Recently we have banned some trolls from our blog.The reason why we banned them, was because they were so boring.    Our standard is to ban any and all trolls who are not as interesting as Cthulhu.   Because Catherine and I will never settle for a lesser evil!Posted in Ned Kelly's Pub Tagged: Cthulhu [...]

Deer Consumer Products, a Chinese manufacturer of kitchen appliances, may not yet be a household name. But Deer has big ambitions, prestigious contracts with the likes of Wal-Mart and Tesco and plans for a Nasdaq listing...

Location: Yuyuan Gardens, Shanghai ChinaHow to Get There: Bus 945 Shanghai Tan Mall (the trims market)

PepsiCo has opened China's first "green" beverage plant in Chongqing and reiterated plans to invest $1 billion in the country. The drinks giant says this is the first plant in the industrial centre of Chongqing to comply with LEED, a US standard for green buildings...

China has a number of potential sustainable development paths, but none of them will be easy to achieve. This is the conclusion of a recent report by Wang Tao and Jim Watson, which develops a set of low-carbon scenarios to 2100.

The Internet: A room of our own? - Evgeny Morozov in Dissent [pdf](tags: internet internet-politics evgenymorozov)Video from The 7th Chinese Internet Research Conference, May 27 – 29, 2009I didn't make it to Philly, but caught some of the panels on webcast. Now video is up!(tags: circ09 circ china-internet research conference video)

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State of emergency: There are now only 3 gigabyte space left on my notebook. Hasta la vista, mp3’s. #I didn’t get knocked down, but I got up again. #Why do they even bother to put up traffic lights in NYC? Everybody ignores them anyway. #
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Academic Criticism (学术批评网) is a useful website founded in 2001 by Yang Yusheng (杨玉圣), a historian and critic.

The website aggregates commentary by and about academics: newspaper op-eds, book reviews, forewords to anthologies, and other similar material. It's a way to find a wide variety of opinion in one convenient place.
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China's telecoms equipment industry gets more innovative each day. But there are still areas where western technology triumphs. How else do we explain Ericsson getting three contracts for fixed broadband access?

A number of contemporary New Confucian scholars are to some extent aware of the Second Axial Age, writes Wang Zhicheng (王志成), professor at Zhejiang University’s Humanities College, in an article on his blog. The axial age was a term coined by Karl Jaspers, a philosopher and psychiatrist who taught during the 20th century. A second [...]

Date: Jul 3rd 2009 10:55p.m.
Contributed by: davidfeng
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There’s a been a lot of television trailers coming out. First up is the one that people are more interested in, even though it’s the lowest budgeted of them all.  I really like Zhang Han’s expressions here, and loved the “mian ren” scene. Hopefully the acting doesn’t disappoint. It’s cute how everyone has their own [...]

Change of place, and pace,
Refreshing a weary mind.
Needful vacation.

Where: 82 Fuxing Xi Lu near Yongfu Lu (复兴西路82号)
Cover: 50RMB, includes drink
Raffle tickets: 25RMB per ticket, 200RMB for 10
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Whole country parties!
Countless barbecues sizzle,
Countless beers are chilled.
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Liu Shihua, Pu Enfu, and a police officer

The case of a Kunming man accused of helping his daughter become a prostitute, and protecting her by letting police carry off his two foster daughters, may be an example of coerced confessions and overzealous law enforcement after all.
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The moment I have been waiting for have finally arrived, after waiting for years. Yes, I always wanted to go to the Great Wall of China.
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Today’s The Australian published Liu Xiaobo’s last interview with foreign press shortly before his arrest:China’s most famous dissident, the courtly, professorial Liu Xiaobo, 53, was taken by security officers from his home in Beijing last December and held incommunicado for six months, mostly in a room without windows at a secret location.Last week he was [...]

Shoppers in supermarkets across Europe will soon get the rare "treat" of watching short broadcasts from Xinhua while picking out their groceries.
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With mega-robot destruction sweeping the world cinemas and the countless critics tooting horns of lofty opinions, I'd like to share my take on the second-most prominent celebrity named Michael currently carpet-bombing the news.
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In the latest addition to "brilliant ideas that China likes to try," Spring Airlines is now considering selling standing-only tickets to passengers on their flights.
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Bodycode’s ethos is to “unlock the psyche via the body,” which is a bold statement for any DJ/producer. However, Bodycode specializes in bold statements – which explains why tonight’s upcoming set at White Rabbit (10pm; RMB 70) is completely live. We caught up with him before he unlocks your psyches to see if we could unlock his.
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After false starts last Saturday and this Wednesday, Cosmos Hot Dogsis slated to open tonight in Tongli Studio, while the second branch of Vietnamese restaurant Muse is apparently to follow later this weekend. This is part of swift changes in the building that have included Juliette’s replacing Le Bistrot Parisien and Cheers announcing it will close this weekend. [...]

This post is about how Hong Kong has commemorated the 12th anniversary of its return to PRC rule.  I promise you this is going to be a “fair and balanced” blog post.  I’ll let the images and eye witness reports speak for themselves.As usual, CCTV has the most “comprehensive” coverage:This is a typical report from [...]

Cheers, best known for featuring live Xinjiang music on the weekends, will call it quits in Tongli Studio this weekend. This bar ranks among my ten favorites in Beijing. In addition to excellent music, it draws patrons of all ages, nationalities, and professions, offers an ecentric combination of pool table and nude oil paintings courtesy of own Leo, and leaves me [...]

Qian and I arrived back in Xi'an today after an incredible week in Beijing. Despite my crotchetiness with the young backpackers at our hostel, the four days we spent in Beijing were delightful.

The highlight of the trip for me was renting an electric-powered motor boat and taking that out on Houhai with our friends Richard and Ling. We got into the boat at sunset and cruised out on the water as Houhai and the bars surrounding the lake went abuzz with the darkness. A surreal experience.
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A lot has been said about the Nina Wang/Tony Chan case. But hey, who doesn’t like hearing about a story of a rich, old and crackpot woman worth billions who gets seduced by a young bachelor claiming to be a ‘Fung Shui master’? The Standard reports that the court battle has finally lifted the [...]
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Today I went to the market outside Yuyuan Garden to buy some stuff for my apartment (pillows, wardrobe gadgets, rugs, etc.) I got a lot of stuff for only 230 kuai. Amazing! I love China, haha. Anyway, I asked a seller in a shop where I could find bathroom stuff, and he then told me where to go, when I was just going to leave, he stopped me and took off my glasses with his hands, and said: Waaaaaaaaaa, without the glasses you are a mei nv (beautiful woman), but with them you are not. [Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhh............OK...help?] I am currently wearing my glasses :-)

Well just after stoking a raging inferno of comment fire on the merits of Italian restaurants in Shanghai, this delivery menu landed on my desk.I’m guessing they didn’t fly a top pizza chef in from Tuscany to come up with the “Abseriction Orchard”, and I do wonder how many other ingredients they tried alongside “Meat Gut” [...]
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The cover story for China Economic Reviews newly published July issue, focuses on Chinese strategies for outbound investment in oil and gas. However, throughout the reporting of the story, CER staffers conducted interviews with analysts and insiders regarding outbound investment in a broad range of natural resources. Much of what [...]

Damn the torpedoes and the long-term threat to the economy posed by a non-performing loan crisis! We're back in the market, and we hope it's full speed ahead for our purchase: Jiangsu Expressway (600377.SH), operator of, well, expressways. We bought 200 shares today at RMB6.63 (US$0.97) each.Why this target and [...]

Not sure how you think of yesterday graduation photos. Well, there are some other special one like those below....
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Date: Jul 3rd 2009 12:31p.m.
Contributed by: tracyyou

“It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.” The summer sales are officially here. I walked down Huaihai Zhong Lu this morning and found heaps of discount offered by big names. Check it out during this weekend but try not to overspend your budget.
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Aberdeen, Top Deck on the Jumbo – June 15th 2009. Top Deck Summer Lounge presents BOYS, BABES & BELVEDERE BLACK RASPBERRY.
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I try to mix a lot
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Life’s tough when you’ve got to compete for cuteness on the A-list of endangered species. Wrinkly old elephants at the Royal Elephant Kraal zoo in Thailand are being dressed up as pandas to remind visitors that it’s not all about the new cute panda cubs born at the zoo recently. Via Xinhuanet.com Related posts:Shanzhai PandaVideo: [...]Related posts:

• Shanzhai Panda
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From Liberia an example of physical blogging, or simply black board in public space.Just to show that ideas and needs are much alike everywhere.Check also out the site Afrigadget

Chairman Mao cannot understand why Canadia and Americaland celebrating same freedom from Englandland on two days so close to each other. Why does one country need two freedom celebrations? Strange customs some laowai has.