Shanghaiist lists all the live music performances you might want to check out from now to Sunday this week. For fun things that aren’t live music, take a peek at our Pencil This In (out every Monday!)
If there’s one word to describe Shanghai’s live music line up this week, it’s definitely “eclectic”. [...]
Shanghai is a big ol’ place, and so traversing it by taxi is often the quickest, if most costly, option. To lessen the scary surprises given out by the taxi meters, you can now calculate your fare online. Thanks to this new application from Kuber, you simply type in your departure location and destination, and [...]
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We all know that Mao loved to say that “Women Hold Up Half the Sky” when referring to China’s female population. And a few weeks ago, this seemed to be very much the case, as we reported that half of the world’s self-made lady billionaires struck their fortunes here in [...]
We love Western publication tourist guides – and here’s one for the Bund (set to reopen March 28!). Things you should do on our beloved Waitan include… going to Three on the Bund, going to M on the Bund and checking out the Peace Hotel. Sounds expensive! [Sydney Morning Herald]
Pudong is cracking down [...]
Google’s new report on what services you can use in China
All those weeks of talks finally came to a head early this morning, as Google stopped censoring its search results in China. Instead of google.cn, users are being directed to an uncensored version of google.com.hk in simplified Chinese. On the [...]
When of us think of the words “pets” and “Shanghai” together, usually images of Poodles with hot pink fur or Shih-Tzus wearing pajamas come to mind, or maybe that ubiquitous songbird. But for local animal lover Wu Kunqi, a lapdog just wouldn’t cut it – rather, his pet alternative was… a horse?
That’s [...]
Photo from Stephan Schobloch’s photostream
When we caught wind of the latest “OMG did you see how much information China censors?” production from the States, a brilliant idea came to our collective mind. As the article provides a short list of topics apparently banned from being discussed in media here, we [...]
China’s recent food safety record has been questionable, to say the least. Recently we reported that about one tenth of China’s cooking oil is actually highly-toxic, cancer-causing “drainage oil” not fit for human consumption. However, starting today Food Safety Administration officials in Shanghai will be operating a new hotline: 962727, where consumers can report [...]
Photo of the dust storms hitting Beijing from Xinhua
My throat’s been killing me this whole week – and while I at first thought it was the onset of some sort of sickness, I haven’t gotten weak or feeble yet. This morning, I finally realized the culprit: those damn Northern sandstorms.
Beijing [...]