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Entertaining Read About the Lack of an Em Dash Key
Entertaining Read About the Lack of an Em Dash Key is a post from: Shanghai Tech Writer Entertaining Read About the Lack of an Em Dash Key is a post from: Shanghai Tech Writer Here’s an entertaining read about the lack of an em dash key on the keyboard. Excerpt: Why care? The em-dash...
Video: Walking from Beijing to Urumqi!
Video: Walking from Beijing to Urumqi! is a post from: Shanghai Tech Writer Video: Walking from Beijing to Urumqi! is a post from: Shanghai Tech Writer Below is an awesome time lapse video of a man who walked from Beijing to Urumqi over the course of a year, taking photos of him...
The Bored Security Guard Outside Our Office
The Bored Security Guard Outside Our Office is a post from: Shanghai Tech Writer The Bored Security Guard Outside Our Office is a post from: Shanghai Tech Writer Recent few weeks, security has tightened around the Shanghai office in light of all the news/media coverage regarding Google and China. There’s a security...
Dogfooding the Motorola XT800 Android Phone
Dogfooding the Motorola XT800 Android Phone is a post from: Shanghai Tech Writer Dogfooding the Motorola XT800 Android Phone is a post from: Shanghai Tech Writer Around Christmas time last year, all the Google employees in the U.S. and several other countries received a Nexus One Android phone to dogfood prior to...
The New Guanglan Road Subway Station Opens
The New Guanglan Road Subway Station Opens is a post from: Shanghai Tech Writer The New Guanglan Road Subway Station Opens is a post from: Shanghai Tech Writer After almost two weeks of construction, the new Guanglan subway station (Line 2) finally opened! The area around Guanglan station is still a big...
A Day in the Life of a Construction Worker in China
A Day in the Life of a Construction Worker in China is a post from: Shanghai Tech Writer A Day in the Life of a Construction Worker in China is a post from: Shanghai Tech Writer Just read a translated article from ChinaHush about the life of a migrant construction worker in...
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Solarcon China 2010 to kick off in Shanghai (Digi Times)
SEMI's Photovoltaic (PV) Group and Germany-based Intersolar are co-hosting Solarcon China 2010, an international PV show, in Shanghai March 16-18....
Shanghai GM recall (People's Daily)
Shanghai GM is recalling 2,065 Chevrolet Captivas imported from South Korea, China's quality supervision agency said. The vehicles, made by GM Daewoo Automotive and Technology before the end of 2007, were at risk of steering malfunctions, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIC) said Friday. &$ &$Source:...
Behind the Scenes: Interview the Shanghai Mayor? I did! (China Daily)
Qian Yanfeng joined China Daily in 2008, and has been working at the Shanghai bureau covering social and political news in the city. She is also responsible for covering major news in the Yangtze River Delta....
Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway to open next year (People's Daily)
Beijing: The highly anticipated Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway will begin operation next year, and is expected to cut travel time to four hours, railway officials said. The high-speed railway between China's two most important metropolises was scheduled to open in 2012 but will now open one year ahead of time, said...
US looks to Shanghai Expo to help ease distrust (AP via Yahoo! Malaysia News)
For millions of Chinese, the USA pavilion's show at the Shanghai World Expo will be the closest they'll ever come to an experience of America....
US Looks to Shanghai Expo to Help Ease Distrust (ABC News)
Rebranding America: USA Pavilion at Shanghai Expo aims to charm Chinese, ease distrust Shanghai - Chinese language - Chinese - Shanghai Expo - Ethnicity...
Shanghai Scrap
About that lousy Expo 2010 billboard in Times Square.
The other afternoon I tweeted an image of a billboard promoting Shanghai’s Expo 2010 in New York’s Times Square. I was surprised (in a not good way) when I came across the sign, and if I hadn’t been completely occupied with my reasons for being in New York, I would...
More on Apple and manufacturing in China.
Last week I posted on the bizarre spectacle of Apple’s fanboys rallying to the defense of their favorite computer company on the occasion of a negative Daily Telegraph story on Apple’s safety, environmental, and labor record in China. To my surprise, the post generated a significant amount of traffic and...
The Sorry Spectacle of the US Pavilion at Expo 2010. But I still like the Expo, anyway. [UPDATED]
Today Foreign Policy publishes “A Sorry Spectacle,” my history of the regrettable and often bizarre effort to build a USA pavilion for Expo 2010 [a/k/a, the World's Fair] to begin on May 1, in Shanghai. Some of the material has been aired on Shanghai Scrap and elsewhere over the last...
Why are the fanboys rushing to defend Apple’s child labor record?
[UPDATE: Outside of the Chinese media and the Daily Telegraph, it seems like nobody is particularly interested in covering Apple's child labor record. TechNewsWorld takes a hard look at why, and comes down hard on a compliant, Apple-infatuated media.] Spend any time reading online technology reviews and you’ve inevitably come across...
A few thoughts on handling online corrections, and the NYT’s memory hole.
Over at Bill Bishop’s new Sinocism blog, there’s a very interesting post and discussion about how the New York Times handles corrections to its online edition. The example in question concerns a switch in a China-related headline, from “Beijing Police Beat Artists Protesting Evictions” to “Evicted Artists Protest After Attack...
On money sloshing down the streets, and being misquoted by one of the world’s “premier” newspapers.
[UPDATE: I've received an email from an IHT editor assuring me that a correction is being prepared for online and print.] [UPDATE 2/26: The digital version of the story mentioned in this post has been corrected. Many thanks to the editors and writer who helped the process along. I appreciate it.] Late...
Shanghai Expat Life
Happy Chinese new year of the Tiger 2010
恭喜發財恭喜恭喜恭喜你Happy new year of the tiger to all!I hope you will all be blessed with good health, love, fun, family, friends and good fortune. :)(picture from tigerdg deviantart)...
I always feel sad and nostalgic when I think of the past...Look at these photos of the Shanghai of "yesteryear"...more...
Just got an email.. so it seems I have won some type of Blog Award. My first! Woohoo!...
Shanghai - the most beautiful city in the world
I found this really beautiful and moving promotional video about Shanghai (promoting it for the 2010 World Expo)The cities with the most beautiful skylines in the world rated by National Geographic are as follows:1. Hong Kong, China2. Chicago, USA3. Shanghai, China4. New York City, USA5. Tokyo, Japan6. Singapore7. Toronto, Canada8....
The Gubei Road Shanghai big tree flower sculpture is in Lyon France!
Photos by: randyi66, spiky247, Diamond Header and kl loth on Flickr.Sorry I have been away for so long. To make up for it though, I have one heck of a crazy post for y'all.I have stumbled upon something very very interesting, by chance.I have discovered that there is a twin...
World Airport AwardsThe winners for 2009 are...1. Incheon, Seoul, South Korea2. Hong Kong, Hong Kong3. Singapore Changi, Singapore4. Zurich, Switzerland5. Munich, Germany6. Kansai, Osaka, Japan7. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia8. Amsterdam, Netherlands9. Centrair, Nagoya, New Zealand10. Auckland, New Zealand...