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Shanghaiist Happy Hour: Usain Bolt Appreciation Party, Sept. 4 Yeah yeah, we know. We're sick of the Olympics, too. But who can say no to the Boltman? What: Shanghaiist Happy Hour at Sasha's (11 Dongping Lu, near Hengshan Lu, 东平路11号 近衡山路, Tel: 6474-6628). When: Thursday, September 4, 8 pm to midnight. Drink Specials: Selected drinks half price, including the great beers from Just Beer. Music: Reggae, baby. Food: We're trying to get Sasha's to offer chicken nuggets, Usain Bolt's pre-race meal of choice. Entry:...

Finally, a quick way to get famous in Shanghai From Reuters:Shanghai police will post photos and videos of jaywalkers in newspapers and on TV in a bid to shame them out of breaking traffic rules, local media reported on Thursday. Offending pedestrians, moped riders and cyclists would be snapped at selected intersections and their images put in regular columns and on special television programmes set up by police, the Shanghai Daily said. The scheme had come under fire from lawyers who said public humiliation...

A Tibetan woman goes to the Olympics Jocelyn Ford reports from Beijing:A Tibetan street hawker lives in a community of migrant workers in the outskirts of Beijing. Hostilities toward her escalated after the March riots in Lhasa. She and her son are delighted to find they are welcome at the Olympic stadium....

312 HIV-positive travellers found through random blood checks at border crossings This article in the China Daily caught our attention:Three hundred and twelve travelers were found to be HIV positive in the first seven months of this year, up 19 percent year-on-year, a report released Tuesday showed. They were among 756,000 travelers who received random blood checks at border crossings, according to the report compiled by the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ). The increase in positive cases was mainly due to the...

China warns on rural, urban income gap: report (AFP via Yahoo! News) The income gap between urban and rural areas in China is the worst in a generation, state media reported Friday, five years after leaders made equality a top policy aim.

China Nabs Gold In Iraq Oil Race (Forbes) China National Petroleum Corp. made headlines by securing a $3 billion oil services deal with the country.

Report says China offered widespread help on nukes (USA Today) China gave Pakistan the blueprint for an atomic bomb, testing the finished product in 1990, and unveiled a sophisticated nuclear weapons complex to visiting U.S. scientists in the last decade, report former weapons lab officials.

US, 19 firms on clean-energy trade mission to China, India (AFP via Yahoo! News) The United States and 19 US companies will travel to China and India next month on a clean energy and environment trade mission, the Commerce Department said Thursday.

China's tallest building to open in Shanghai (AP via Yahoo! News) China's tallest building, the 101-story Shanghai World Financial Center, will open to the public on Saturday, 14 years after its developer began the project.

Shanghai jaywalkers to be shamed (BBC News) Jaywalkers in China's bustling commercial capital, Shanghai, face being photographed and publicly shamed by police, a report says.

Shanghai jaywalkers face TV shame: report (AFP via Yahoo! News) Shanghai jaywalkers face public humiliation as police plan to start broadcasting images of their offences on television to shame them into respecting traffic rules, local media said Thursday.

Shanghai folk get 1m free bicycles (People's Daily) A Shanghai advertising firm is offering people across the country up to 1 million free bicycle rides a day, as part of a scheme that will run until 2010. After registering their ID cards, cyclists can pick up and drop off their Ibike Media bikes at any of the firm's service stations. People can rent the bikes for up to four hours at a time, Li Yi, a press officer with the company, said. The ...

8/29: YuYinTang RMB Party

8/30: Life Journey Summer Tour

8/30: Life Journey Summer Tour

8/30: Wangjianshuo's Blog Meetup

9/1: Zapata's Massive Mondays

9/3: China International Footwear Fair - Moda Shanghai 2008

9/3: THE 2ND ANNUAL Loyalty Programmes China 2008

9/8: Zapata's Massive Mondays

9/10: British Chamber of Commerce Shanghai Conference: Creating a Sustainable & Responsible Enterprise in China

9/11: Enter the Green Dragon: China's Built Environment Value Chain Goes Green

9/11: Enter the Green Dragon: China's Built Environment Value Chain Goes Green

9/11: Mergers & Acquisitions - the China Factor

9/15: Zapata's Massive Mondays

9/17: China International Hardware Show 2008

9/17: The 6th China International Tire Expo 2008

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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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