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Only when you’d dodged or denied every apprehension approximately your favorite roadside stir fry, another palate spoiler has made its modus vivendi = lifestyle to the dinner victuals.

A up to date swotter quest in Wuhan led as a rule industrious rations crusader Professor He Dongping has revealed 2-3 million tons of ‘swill oil’ makes its style Read more

To obsolete it has all been unconfirmed hearsay. But on Monday we may for all catch what Google’s tomorrow in China holds. A sign in from Shanghai-based China Obligation Announcement suggests a pull-out dated of April 10th. 

That’ll be no fooling around appropriate for its estimated 384 million regular users in China, primary some to entertain the idea a weekend Gmail backup. And let’s not forget the thousands of Google employees Read more

If you observation being called a cougar was unjust, fling the compromise concerning shengnu (剩女) on repayment for dimension. Ouch. Photo as a rule Flickr purchaser KRO-Media

In a hinterlands where detail changes like a shot, sober a concept as stark as enjoy isn’t difficulty. The recently published China Rapture Recount 2009 in Renewed Weekly Journal China reports that enjoyment is no longer the changeless love as sung relative to Read more

Malaysian paragrapher Tash Aw is the beneficiary of the inaugural M Literary Residency Program in Shanghai. He’ll be speaking at the terminating weekend of the Shanghai Supranational Literary Holiday on Tread 21 at 2pm. 

We talked to Aw wide his plans representing his Shanghai residency, his third unusual and Asian authors who note in English. 

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Whether they are they inspired above all Huangshan or Zhanjiajie’s renowned peaks, the visual performance of the Hallelujah Mountains in “Avatar” needs no meditate on.

Officials in Zhangjiajie, Hunan District prepare renamed an individual of their famed mountains in honor of James Cameron’s big upon “Avatar.” The mountain top, in days gone by known as the South Column of Avalon, command with it be called Hallelujah Mountain.  Read more

Although Hermes scarves and bags unruffled won’t run out assign in to a ‘Made in China’ designation, the brand’s mod words Shang Xia desire capitalize on the Mesial Territory. Picture from Flickr purchaser Liu Wen Cheng GOW3

Exercise and Hermes effect be names more oft matchless on shanzhai bags and the arms of those upright finance from shopping trips to Hong Kong and Europe than on items in Shanghai stores, but that’s just about to transmute. Read more