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NoComment TV: The Paralympic Games open in Beijing We missed Saturday's opening of the Paralympic Games on TV, but a quick scan of the headlines shows international media are just as impressed as they were with the Olympic opening ceremony. Among the highlights of the show, also choreographed by director Zhang Yimou, were a sign language dance performed by 300 hearing impaired girls, and a wheelchair dance by twelve-year-old ballet student Li Yue who had her left leg amputated during the Sichuan earthquake....

Shanghaiist Sunday Show: Toxic Linfen on VBS As part of their "Toxic series" VBS TV took a trip to the "world's most polluted town", Linfen, in China's Shanxi province. In six episodes David Feinberg reports on a city that is experiencing the dark side of China's economic boom, in the form of massive pollution. Part 1.Welcome to the most polluted city on the planet. Part 2. Like living inside a miner's lungs. Who also smokes....

Chinese men set their eyes on Western women Watch out ladies, Chinese men are on the prowl. According to this article in Mop, one Chinese man set out to settle a score against Western men, by staking out Western women visiting Beijing during the Olympics. The man in question is from a small town in the middle of nowhere, the kind of place where "in 20 years only one student made it into Tsinghua or Peking University." He managed to test into a...

Photo of the Day: Couple on the Bund Photo by NoLimitsTW More photos on the Shanghaiist Contribute page. To see your photos on our Contribute page, use Flickr and tag your photos “shanghaiist”. Or you can email your photos to photos@shanghaiist.com and they will automatically appear on our site (and here)....

China to launch space mission in late September (AP via Yahoo! News) China will launch its third manned space mission in late September, featuring its first-ever space walk, a state news agency said.

China Trade Surplus May Narrow as U.S., European Demand Falter (Bloomberg.com) Sept. 8 (Bloomberg) -- China's trade surplus probably fell on faltering demand from the U.S. and Europe, making the central bank more likely to keep stalling the yuan's gains.

Flood in China coal mine traps 23 (USA Today) Twenty-three people were trapped in a flooded coal mine in central China, authorities said Sunday.

HKG's wheelchair champion sets out to fend off China (AFP via Yahoo! News) Hong Kong's Yu Chui Yee fenced her way to four gold medals at the Paralympic Games in 2004 but she faces an epic battle in Beijing as she sets out to defend her titles against new-comers China.

Iran bids to join Shanghai Cooperation Organization (Payvand Iran News) President Mahmud Ahmadinejad on Saturday expressed Iran's interest to join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. The Chinese leader welcomed Iran's interest to join the SCO, saying an expert committee will be formed to consider the proposal. -MNA

Iran bids to join Shanghai Cooperation Organization (mehrnews.com) “The Islamic Republic is determined to boost cooperation with the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and believes this would benefit all regional states,” Ahmadinejad told Chinese President Hu Jintao.

Exhibition in Shanghai celebrates all things mundane (China Daily) SHANGHAI: Chamber pots, flyswatters, duster brushes, mops made of rags these used to be necessary items for everyday life in Shanghai and most other cities in China. At one time, every community in Shanghai had a mom-and-pop shop filled with such things.

Tattoo on Man, Sold to Collector, Debuts at Shanghai Art Fair (Bloomberg.com) Sept. 5 (Bloomberg) -- A Swiss man with a tattoo of the Virgin Mary on his back, which was sold to a German art collector, will go on show for the first time next week at Shanghai's SHContemporary fair, said Wim Delvoye, the Belgian artist who created the work.

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

9/18: Learning 2.008 Conference

9/19: China Dive Exhibition 2008

9/22: Zapata's Massive Mondays

9/23: IFAT China 2008

9/23: Wire China - China International Wire & Cable Trade Fair

9/28: Shanghai Shenhua v Qingdao

9/29: Zapata's Massive Mondays

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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