I remember China’s olden days, when pizza was served with plastic gloves to prevent the client’s disgust from having to eat the pizza by hand. The Chinese, see, don’t eat with their hands. That was only nine years ago. Last night, I was in Pizza Hut (once again I failed to find a sushi bar

Risk.  Everyone in China is exposed to it.  Some recognize it, and act on it, better than others This was the topic of several conversations between myself and Neal Beatty (Regional Director, Global Client Services for Control Risks).  In some ways it was a followup to the interview I did of Dane Chamorro, his colleague, [...]
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Chengdu subway fever is getting more intense! In the latest development, the Chengdu Metro Corporation staged a media event to debut the uniforms that the subway staff will sport come October.
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This week’s revirew of last week’s news follows below: The latest estimate of GDP growth for 2010 comes from the Chinese economist at the World Bank, and suggests 10% – inline with the estimate from Development Research Center of the State Council a couple of weeks ago. Inflation, as then, remains a worry. China’s overseas [...]

If you're not quite up for battling traffic on a bicycle, don't have a car, and can't spend half an hour waiting every time you need a taxi, what can you do? The subway doesn't open until next year, so it looks like you'll be getting on the bus.
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Listen to author Jonathan Chamberlain reading from his memoir Wordjazz for Stevie. Related posts:Wordjazz for Stevie — “maybe the most moving story you will ever read”Related posts:

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FRIDAY | SEPTEMBER 3

Local Rock @ Little Bar
With Mosaic,Mr.Turtle & The Trouble. RMB50. Starts at 8 p.m.

1 Year YoMoFo @ Panda Club
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When you see scenes like this, you can gauge how China is doing economically. In China there are always people, but when you see them filling the streets during work hours and pre work hours, it means the economy is smoking, if not then the economy is sucking. Right now it looks good.
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I think this guy is devliering packages (the guy on the left). These guys flood the city with deliveries, and are super efficent and actually trust worthy….
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These guys are the backbone of the Chinese economy (legal economy). They pedal bkes or motorized trikes and deliver goods throughout the country.
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VUE bar at Hyatt on The Bund has for many years been without doubt the bar with the best view of Shanghai by night. In my humble opinion, Flair at the Ritz Carlton in Pudong has inherited that title. Last night I braved wind and rain from typhoon Kompasu and popped in for a few [...]
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Like Google has applications such as Google docs or Google maps, Baidu has one which allows you to download MP3We are going to explain to you step by step how to get music using Baidu.First, go to www.baidu.com. How to download MP3 with baidu –
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On any given day, Shanghai tea connoisseurs and novices alike can be seen meandering the multi-level complex that is completely devoted to tea at Tianshan Tea City. For true enthusiasts of the drink, this place -- located on Zhongshan Xi Lu near Yuping Lu -- is a promised land.
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Shanghai was suppose to get a typhoon Wednesday, but apparently it missed the city. I don’t care what the weather reports said, for about an hour there was some insane rain at the Expo. It was raining so hard you couldn’t see out of pavilion windows.
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This has all gone sideways. ‘Feel romance the Royal British way’ is gonna get a Chinese woman more whips than a runaway slave. To mark the anniversary of Diana’s death Jealousy International launched a billboard campaign all across China showing Princess Diana in a bra and knickers. The British government will be asking the Chinese take away this piece of bad taste. News Media Images
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In an exclusive interview with the vernacular China Times, President Ma Ying-jeou revealed numerous blind spots that expose the risks that the China-centric policies of his rightist Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) government pose for Taiwan's future well-being. The prime point of the president's lengthly discourse was that his policies of cross-strait reconciliation with the authoritarian Chinese Communist Party-ruled People's Republic of China were generating "peace dividends" for Taiwan, including an inflow of 1.5 million Chinese tourists and the signing of the controversial "Cross-Strait Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement" and other pacts with the PRC and will pave the way for the...
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NANJING (Xinhua) - The Japanese government announced Wednesday that it had started to destroy chemical weapons abandoned in China during WWII. Hideo Hiraoka, senior vice minister of Japan's cabinet office, made the announcement on behalf of the Japanese government at a ceremony marking the start of the destruction work in the suburbs of the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing. He said the Japanese government had been working to remove the abandoned chemical weapons in light of the Chemical Weapons Convention and relevant memorandum signed between the Japanese and Chinese governments. "Today's move marks a new phase in the disposal of...
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Shanghai Eye been doing quite a lot of research into social media lately. Its changing, the interweb. Anyhow I was persuaded to join renren.com, profile here.They have some cool stuff, but you need renren beans… to buy upgrades and such. I haven&#...

In honor of summer wrapping up (isn't it Labor Day somewhere over there?), I'm cleaning out the "links that I post someday" pile - some dating as far back as March - ulp. Don't worry, you can still try them. I've tested them all, and none of them contain botulism.
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