The chef on the Titanic is said to have
survived the icy waters by thinning his blood with booze as the band played on.
China’s approach to the global financial crisis followed a similar strategy.
The recent
suicides by over 60 poor borrowers in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh
have brought the operations of microfinance institutions (MFIs) under
public scrutiny.
It is well documented by both print and electronic media that
these debt-driven suicides were due to coercive methods of loan recovery
used by commercial MFIs. The commercial MFIs operate as profit-making
non-banking financial [...]
Shanghaiist would like to wish all our readers a happy new year and a fabulous 2010! Enjoy this amazing song 《忐忑》”Perturbed” performed by up-and-coming Guizhou singer Gong Linna (龚琳娜) at Hunan TV’s 2011 countdown show. The song was composed by renowned German ethnomusicologist Robert Zollitsch, who also happens to be her husband. Zollitsch is widely [...]
Over the past 12 months, we’ve posted lots of cool videos on Shanghaiist. Here are our top 10 picks for the year, in no particular order:
Sublime piece of work made with 26,000 images taken over two months travelling across Tibet, Xinjiang, Yunnan and Sichuan. This video will make you want to drop everything, pack your [...]
All photos from our featured photos of the day. You can see all of them here.
November began with the sound of six million census takers knocking on doors, counting for the first time migrant workers, foreigners and Hong Kongers along with the rest of the population. Chinese pressure on its allies mounted as the Nobel [...]
This stuff is dope and we can’t wait to find it in our next copy of the Reference News 《参考消息》.
The UK’s Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove, has, in his latest op-ed in The Telegraph, proudly referred to the coalition government as a “Maoist enterprise” and unabashedly confessed his vision for [...]
Photo from dbmboise
News you must read today:
China says Seoul’s plans for the reunification of the Korean peninsula is provocative and ratchets up regional tension. If that isn’t meddling in another country’s internal affairs, we don’t know what is.
A new policy document by the government says the Chinese Communist Party alone can fight corruption, [...]
Beautiful timelapse video by James Leng taken at the Monkey Gazing Over a Sea of Clouds (猴子观海) lookout at the Yellow Mountain, Huangshan. He writes: “After hiking 13km up HuangShan on the first day, we got up at 4am (after only 5hrs of sleep) to go see the sunrise over the mountain. At first it [...]
All photos from our featured photos of the day. You can see all of them here.
October started out with the launch of more stuff into orbit, showering a few villages with debris along the way. China decided to censor its own premier when it instituted a media blackout on Wen Jiabao’s interview with CNN. It [...]
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Submitted by Cherry Ho on January 3, 2011 – 00:00
President E. Gordon Gee of the Ohio State University will visit Shenzhen [...]