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Lights out for Shanghai? It's been a scorcher of a week and those little AC units are working on overtime. So much so, that it threatens to plunge us all into darkness. Okay, maybe the situation hasn't gotten that melodramatic, but according to Xinhua News we used a whopping 22.43 million kilowatts yesterday afternoon, or roughly one kilowatt per person (shame on you if you used two). The good news is we didn't sweat as much yesterday, the bad...

Beijing News recalled from newsstands for carrying subversive picture "Yesterday, Beijing News published an interview with former Associated Press Beijing-based reporter Liu Xiangcheng. The story appeared in page C15, and belongs to the series about thirty years of reform. The title was I used photographs to record the path that China went through. Next to the story is a photograph that Liu took during the June 4th incident in 1989. The photo showed a couple of wounded civilians being spirited away in a tricycle...

Olympic terrorists arrested in Shanghai Police said yesterday they had cracked down on a Shanghai terrorist cell planning violence at Olympic soccer matches in the city. Shanghai’s Olympic security office head Cheng Jiulong said police, who were put on “crisis” level several days ago, had learned of several international terrorist organizations and staged raids successful in arresting potential attackers. Information not mentioned in Jiulong's report included how many people were arrested, when they were taken into custody and where they...

Two more quakes for Sichuan Earthquakes with magnitudes of 4.8 and 5.5 hit Sichuan yesterday afternoon after an early morning tremor struck the region. The first counts report the quakes left at least one dead, 17 injured and 360 homes flattened. The tremors are just the latest in the string of over 12,000 aftershocks the region has suffered following the May 12 disaster, 25 of which have measured greater than 5.0 on the Richter scale, classifying them as moderate quakes...

China's athletes pledge 'glory' as biggest Olympic team unveiled (AFP via Yahoo! News) Yao Ming and many of China's other top athletes pledged "glory to the motherland" on Friday as the nation's biggest-ever Olympic team was unveiled for the Beijing Games.

China says it's No. 1 in Web usage, surpassing USA (USA Today) China's booming Internet population has surpassed the United States to become the world's biggest, with 253 million people online despite government controls on Web use, according to government data reported Friday.

China's Web users top 250m on back of disasters, Olympics (AFP via Yahoo! News) China's online population, already the world's largest, has swelled to 253 million, an official report said, driven by news events such as natural disasters and the Beijing Olympics.

China says its population of Internet users rises to first in world (International Herald Tribune) China's booming Internet population has surpassed the United States, with 253 million people online despite government controls on Web use, according to government data reported Friday.

Shanghai Sec Regulator: Funds Can't Comment On Market Trends (Nasdaq) SHANGHAI -(Dow Jones)- The Shanghai Securities Regulatory Bureau said fund management companies should refrain from making public comments on domestic stock market trends and individual stocks, in a latest sign of the government's effort to stabilize markets ahead of the Beijing Olympics.

Shanghai Police Foil Reported Olympic Terror Attack (Fox News) Police in Shanghai have cracked a terrorist cell planning to attack an Olympic football venue in the city during the upcoming games.

Buy Shanghai! (The New Yorker) New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn’t even sit down, and not just because there is no room. Things move fast in this town which is both new and old, Western and Eastern, Adidas and Adidos, Adadis, Admimas, Daiads, and Odidoss. Blink, and another lane . . .

Three stabbed to death over love affair in Shanghai (China Daily) Three people were stabbed to death and two others injured in a suspected love affair dispute in Shanghai, the local police said Friday. Shanghai police received a call Thursday midnight reporting that someone had been stabbed in an apartment in Pudong New District.

7/26: Black Magic Hip Hop Party

7/26: Tokyo Night

7/27: Itma Asia + Citme 2008

7/27: Itma Asia + Citme 2008

7/27: ShanghaiExpat Summer BBQ Benefit Season 2 is coming!!

7/27: Sunday Mix-DJ: Freestyle Hip hop and Electro

7/28: Zapata's Massive Mondays

7/29: On the Stage! OTS!

7/30: Addicted Wednesday-DJ: Neon (CAN)

7/31: Sitiational Selling Workshop

8/11: Zapata's Massive Mondays

8/15: China Auto Electronics Show 2008

8/15: The 7th China International Auto Accessories Commercial Expo 2008

8/18: Zapata's Massive Mondays

8/20: The 6th China International Auto Supplies Sourcing Fair

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

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

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

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

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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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