Yangzhou has opened a new Marco Polo Memorial Hall, a museum dedicated to the 13th century explorer, but a minor tussle has already erupted between Croats and Italians. [ more › ]
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It’s Easter this weekend so there’s brunching and egg hunting to be done. Elsewhere, the MiNi architectural film festival starts today and we get the first taste of Apt 302 tonight. Oh, and this one we’re very excited about: Jean Georges Vongerichten’s live cooking class. If that’s still not enough, head over to [...]
Time magazine just released this year’s list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Interested to see which Chinese movers and shakers made this list? [ more › ]
South Korea’s embattled Lee Myung Bak administration has named former ambassador to Russia Lee Kyu-hyung new ambassador to China, the third in as many years. [ more › ]
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Just when you thought you’d heard the last of Wikileaks now that its founder Julian Assange is facing various legal challenges, the whistleblower site unanimously hated by governments worldwide appears to be sputtering back to life once again. And it appears it’s concentrating a bit of its fire power on China for now. [ [...]
It’s Friday, Friday. Gotta get down on Friday. Tomorrow is Saturday. And Sunday comes after…wards. Okay sorry, I apologize for that, but in all seriousness, here’s something to help you get down this weekend. One of the Yongfu Lu pillars, The Apartment, has just undergone a switch up in management. But more than [...]