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What you already knew: Shanghai is sinking It no longer matters whether you believe global warming is caused by man, or "just God hugging us closer." Because Chicken Little was right, Shanghai is sinking. Reuters reports that Shanghai is considered among the world's most vulnerable urban areas to a rise in sea levels, all thanks to melting polar ice caps, the prevalent use of land subsistence in China's coastal cities and heavy construction of skyscrapers. According to Wang Pingxian, professor of ocean...

Baidu finally appoints a CTO after two years After two long years, the void left by the departure of Jerry Liu has been filled by telecommunications technologist Li Yinan. Li was the former Chief Technology Scientist at Huawei Technologies and oversaw the development of 3G mobile chipsets. This position was made vacant in 2006 when Liu resigned to rejoin a search engine competitor Tianwang that he founded in 1999 prior to joining Baidu. Robin Li the CEO of Baidu said this about Li...

Angry Korean gamer cusses at Chinese gamers The video of this young Korean gamer who launches into a 5 and a half minute long diatribe against Chinese gamers and their supposed lack of game knowledge and gaming ethics has riled thousands of Chinese netizens, and apparently a few of their Korean counterparts are not amused either. Read translations of comments from Chinese and Korean gamers here....

Indian national falls to his death at Marks and Spencers Shanghai The newly launched Marks and Spencers on Nanjing Xi Lu is off to a rather inauspicious start — barely a few days after Shanghai shoppers went on a rampage at the store, an Indian national has fallen to his death Sunday evening. Xinhua has more: The accident occurred at around 9:30 p.m. when Shah Harshit, 24,fell from an escalator on the fourth floor of the store in Nanjing West Road, a Shanghai Municipal Public Security...

China hopes "right person" wins Nobel Peace Prize (Reuters via Yahoo! News) China said on Wednesday it hoped the Nobel Peace Prize, due to be announced on Friday, will go to the "right person" after a Chinese dissident had been mentioned as a potential winner.

Art guru Saatchi back with new gallery, China show (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Influential British art collector Charles Saatchi is back after three years out of the limelight, opening a major new gallery in central London showcasing some of China's hottest artists.

China says US arms sale to Taiwan harms ties (AP via Yahoo! News) A planned multibillion dollar U.S. arms sale to Taiwan threatens China's national security and has cast a pall over military relations between Beijing and Washington, the foreign ministry said Tuesday.

Taiwan suggests SARS was China warfare plot (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Taiwan legislators wearing surgical masks and displaying skull-and-crossbones banners took over parliament's floor on Tuesday after the island's security chief accused China of starting the global SARS epidemic six years ago as part of a biological warfare campaign.

Copper, Zinc, Aluminum Drop Limit for Second Day in Shanghai (Bloomberg) Oct. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Copper, zinc and aluminum slumped by the exchange-imposed daily limit for a second day in Shanghai on concern the deepening credit crisis will weigh on global growth and reduce demand for raw materials.

Copper, Zinc, Aluminum Fall Limit for Second Day in Shanghai (Bloomberg) Oct. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Copper, zinc and aluminum plunged by the exchange-imposed daily limit for a second day in Shanghai.

Shanghai No. 1 Biochemical starts construction of lyophilized powderinjection factory (Interfax) Shanghai. October 7. INTERFAX-CHINA - Shanghai No. 1 Biochemical & Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. recently started construction of a factory that will boast an annual capacity of 70 million vials of lyophilized powder for injection, a company official told Interfax on Oct. 6.

Shanghai highrises could worsen threat of rising seas (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Shanghai, China's most populous city and an aspiring global financial center, is also among the world's most vulnerable urban areas to a rise in sea levels as global warming melts polar ice.

10/11: VOID First anniversary

10/22: Shanghai Shenhua v Shandong Luneng

10/25: *** microshelter - THE FINAL ONE ***

10/29: Shanghai Shenhua v Guangzhou Pharmaceutical

11/9: Shanghai Shenhua v Beijing Guoan

11/12: China Rail Transit Summit

11/26: Shanghai Shenhua v Changchun Yatai

12/6: Shanghai Shenhua v Zhejiang Lvcheng

12/11: Web & Wireless Geographical Information System 2008

5/1: Expo 2010 - World Fair

5/1: Shanghai World Expo 2010

9/3: dubdog listen music

10.08.2005 (127 new)

Visit an old colonial island in Xiamen and huge earthen roundhouses in rural Fujian. Scenes from my National Day 2005 holiday.

10.08.2005 (41 new)

Go on the set for my very first infomercial! I play the role of “Dr. James,” inventor of a product called “Dolly.”

10.08.2005 (57 new)

Get some sweaty culture at the Asian Gaelic Games. Gaelic football comes to Shanghai!

10.08.2005 (14 new)

Jam with Xingfu 13 at the Shanghaiist.com launch party.

10.08.2005 (29 new)

Take a stroll through the Second Annual China International Adult Toys and Reproductive Health Exhibition, also known as the Adult Expo or the Adult-Care Expo.

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