Archive for May, 2011
Shanghai best Happy Hour, Morton”s at Pudong IFC building
Every weekday between 5-7pm, visitors to Morton’s can gobble down as many Petite Filet Mignon Steak Sandwiches as they can manage with orders of the RMB38 happy hour Mortinis. The best steak sandwiches in Shanghai. deal. The Mortinis are strong cold and very good. For those chocolate lovers the sweet Chocolate mortini is great. Before [...]
Go Go Go Why China Needs to Keep Building
When I first visited Shanghai, the Pudong half of the city was mostly marshland. “Crazy!” was my reaction when told of plans to build skyscrapers there. Who would want to live there? A decade and a half later I live in Pudong, along with 8 million others. Apple’s [AAPL 337.41 2.41 (+0.72%) ] most profitable [...]
One family one child moves to the dogs, one family one dog
The city of Shanghai – which already follows China’s one-child policy – has announced a new rule for households. From May a one-dog policy will be introduced, and more than 600,000 unlicensed dogs will be declared illegal. The new regulation has been the subject of long and heated debate among the city’s lawmakers. Last year [...]
Gangster Hilton Hotel boss gets life in prison in SW China
CHONGQING, May 4 — The boss of a Hilton Hotel in southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality was sentenced to life in prison by a local court on Wednesday for mafia-style crimes. When he was arrested they also shut down the 5 star Hilton hotel. Who ever heard of a 5 star hotel being shut down. Peng [...]
China tightens internet censorship controls forms new department
China has set up a new government body to control information on the internet. The State Internet Information Office will take over responsibility from a number of lower-ranking directorates. The new set-up will enable the government to keep a tighter grip on the content available to Chinese internet-users inside the country. Which means the internet [...]
China’s Cashmere is the hot soft gold of China.
China sees growing demand for ‘soft gold’ cashmere ORDOS, China — Factory worker Wu Suqing hunches over a machine knitting a green cashmere sweater bound for a department store in China where demand for the luxury wool is growing even as Western sales shrink. The largest producer in China of cashmere Surrounded by towering piles [...]
