Archive for July, 2012
A new club in Jing An Shanghai club Ibiza
: 6267 9699 ADDRESS: 1/F, 428 Jiangning Lu, near Wuding Lu 江宁路428号1F, 近武定路 Impressive new dance club in Jing An, by the owners of Shanghai 88 Back we go, then, to another club attempting to unite two opposing halves of the room. East meets west! There’s certainly enough here to persuade us that this isn’t, [...]
Charges filed in death of Briton Neil Heywood, murder in china
Bogu Kailai and Zhang Xiaojun were recently charged with intentional homicide by the Hefei People’s Procuratorate in East China’s Anhui province, Xinhua News Agency reported on Thursday. The city prosecutors filed the charges with the Hefei Intermediate People’s Court. Prosecutors have informed the two defendants and the family of the victim of their litigation rights [...]
Higher and higher in Shanghai, Shanghai license plate cost still high
The cost of a license plate in Shanghai, China’s most expensive, did not fall as expected in July’s auction despite a new policy the municipality introduced to rein in price speculation. That policy extends the period motorists must keep license plates before reselling them, taking it from one to three years. You buy a car [...]
weekend in Shanghai Eden Club
PHONE: 6255 6000 ADDRESS: 4/F, 760 Nanjing Xi Lu, near Shimen Er Lu 南京西路760号4楼， 近石门二路 HOURS: Weds-Sat, 9:30pm-4am CARDS: Local and international cards accepted This fourth-floor club was set up by the people behind Monkey Lounge. It was S&M night when I went, which ment 100 door for the experience. The crowd was an upscale [...]
Adidas denies closure of factory linked to pay rise
ADIDAS confirmed yesterday that it will close its only company-owned factory in China, signaling a strategic transition by the German sportswear giant to fully subcontracted production. The factory in Suzhou, east China’s Jiangsu Province, will be shut in October to allow the company to “realign its global resources,” according to Chen Qi, a spokesman with [...]
Shanghai Drunken Prawns
Drunken shrimp Ingredients: 500 grams of shrimp, garlic cloves, ginger, sugar, salt, 150 grams of high-quality liquor, 200 grams of rice wine Method: Rinse the shrimps under tap water for about 10 minutes Soak the shrimps in a basin of warm water for a further 10 minutes Mix the liquor with the rice wine Steep [...]
China weather, Heaviest rains in 60 years kill 37 in Beijing
The Chinese capital’s heaviest rainstorm in six decades killed at least 37 people, flooded streets and stranded 80,000 people at the main airport, state media and the government said on Sunday. Half of China is having a drought and the other half is flooding. The storm, which started on Saturday afternoon and continued late into [...]
Shanghai property, China Tells Local Governments to Keep Firm Grip on Housing Market – State Media
SHANGHAI–China has told its local governments to keep a firm grip on the housing market to prevent property prices from rebounding, state media reported Friday, citing an urgent government notice. This is the first month in the past year that Shnaghai property prices have gone up. “Local authorities must strictly implement the property-control policies. Don’t [...]
The old people of Shanghai are moving their feet. Shanghai dance hall evokes vanished era of glamour
“Dao Bai Le Men!” [Take me to the Gate of 100 Pleasures!] I ordered the taxi driver, and we sped off through the cool Shanghai night. At a crossroads near the Jing’an Temple, coloured lights pulsed up the facade of a grand Art Deco building. The name of the Paramount dance hall – Bai Le [...]
Double trouble in China. As number of twins grows, so do troubles
A SURVEY has found that 7.25 percent of local people are willing to take measures such as using fertility drugs to try to have twins, but very few people – as few as 3.3 percent – are fully aware of the risks, experts said. As the Chinese have more money they want more in less [...]
