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• This Week in Shanghai Sports
• Mahota: Healthy and Hearty Organic Hot Pot
• Anhui teacher who molested students tried to bribe them to keep quiet
• Thirty-Three Primary Students Injured Walking Up Stairs By Students Walking Down Stairs
• WIN a Bottle of Champagne for Brownstone's Black and White Ball
• Apple iPhone 5 to be available by mid-December on China Unicom and China Telecom
• Weekendist: Nov 30 - Dec 2; plays, exhibits, and music!
• BEAN fundraiser 'Feast for Famine' @ Bloc, December 8th
• Mario Balotelli Gets Genghis Khan Quote Tattooed On His Chest
• Quicksand To Blame For A Nanjing Bus Sinking Into A Road
• China’s Newest Badass Is Kung-Fu Master Who Thwarted A Mob Of Thugs Out To Evict Him
• Pub owner comes to Shanghai to visit rip-offs of her England properties
• China backs Palestinian bid to become UN observer state
• Photos: First ever gay pride parade in Changsha
• Job advert seeking gay applicants removed after online uproar
• Bus almost swallowed whole by Nanjing sinkhole
• It’s China that can keep the UN climate talks alive
• Is China Emotionally Just Average?
• Hebei Kung Fu expert beats the crap out of hired thugs sent to evict him
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This Week in Shanghai Sports Posted: 29 Nov 2012 07:51 PM PST Date: Nov 30th 2012 7:42a.m. Contributed by: andrewchin City Weekend takes a look at this week in Shanghai sports with an interview with a member of the American football team, Shanghai Warriors.

Mahota: Healthy and Hearty Organic Hot Pot Posted: 29 Nov 2012 07:30 PM PST Date: Nov 30th 2012 11:12a.m. Contributed by: clairebared

Anhui teacher who molested students tried to bribe them to keep quiet Posted: 29 Nov 2012 07:00 PM PST A teacher in Wuwei county, Anhui province, has been arrested and charged with "acting indecently against a child" after a victim of his abuse came forward. The man had allegedly tried to buy his victims' silence by offering them a bribe of 1 yuan each time he molested them. [ more › ]

Thirty-Three Primary Students Injured Walking Up Stairs By Students Walking Down Stairs Posted: 29 Nov 2012 07:57 PM PST This is precious. Children are our future. Let us treasure the things they do. Via China Daily: A group of students went to the playground during their break but found that the playground was flooded, so they decided to return to their classrooms. When they were climbing the stairs they encountered another group of students coming down. In the ensuing confusion, some students fell, were stepped on and suffered injuries, the report said. Kids learn all their life lessons so young these days. The lesson here. (H/T Two Americans in China)

WIN a Bottle of Champagne for Brownstone's Black and White Ball Posted: 29 Nov 2012 06:48 PM PST Date: Nov 30th 2012 10:48a.m. Contributed by: katvelayo

Apple iPhone 5 to be available by mid-December on China Unicom and China Telecom Posted: 29 Nov 2012 06:00 PM PST China's Ministry of Industry and Technology has approved the iPhone 5 as suitable for sale in the country, the final regulatory hurdle the handset had to clear before general release, expected in mid-December. Both WCDMA and CDMA-2000 versions of the handset have been approved, supporting previous reports it will be available on both China Unicom and China Telecom. China Mobile's proprietary TD-SCDMA 3G interface will not be supported. [ more › ]

Weekendist: Nov 30 - Dec 2; plays, exhibits, and music! Posted: 29 Nov 2012 05:00 PM PST December starts with a weekend full of spectacles! The Shelter turns 5, congratulations. If you don't wanna spend your Friday night in a mouldy cave, you can also go to the slightly more polished Club G Plus to see top DJ Paul van Dyk perform. Besides that, there's an interesting theatrical transmedia adaption of the 2004 film "Interview", and a group exhibition of three Chinese artists at Pearl Lam Fine Art Gallery. The Jin Xing Dance Theatre performs a new show at SOAC, and on Sunday, you already have the chance to visit the first Christmas market this year. Bamboo Studio does not only sell gifts, you get to make them yourself, too! And before we forget it: The new S.T.D. club Arkham finally opens, and we are most excited about that. Canadian electro remix king Tiga himself will be there to start what hopefully will be a series of party awesomeness and great music. And if that's still not enough, head over to our calendar for more. [ more › ]

BEAN fundraiser 'Feast for Famine' @ Bloc, December 8th Posted: 29 Nov 2012 04:00 PM PST There will be talking points, a guest speaker, and pictures of our projects. The proceeds go towards BEAN operations for things like library books and diapers and towards Mifan Mama, a charity that provides orphanages with rice and other basic necessities. [ more › ]

Mario Balotelli Gets Genghis Khan Quote Tattooed On His Chest Posted: 29 Nov 2012 04:00 PM PST Mario Balotelli, the mercurial 22-year-old Manchester City striker, celebrated his first English Premier League goal of the season on Wednesday by getting a tattoo. (Note: tattoo may not be connected in any way with said goal.) And of course he went to the half-Asian route, getting a tattoo of a (highly apocryphal but widely attributed) Genghis Khan quote, in English, on his chest: I am the punishment of God / If you have not committed great Sins / God would not have sent / A punishment like me upon you. Balotelli, who is not by any means one of our favorite players, is nonetheless interesting because he's just so goddamn insouciant. About everything, I mean. He does not give one pennylick about your opinion of him, which is good, because you probably think he's a huge dick. Or asshole. As a result of his not caring, he does things. He does a lot of things, and we can't help but chuckle. (H/T Alicia)

Quicksand To Blame For A Nanjing Bus Sinking Into A Road Posted: 29 Nov 2012 12:45 PM PST Here's what it looks like to have a bus extracted from a sinkhole. Yesterday morning, a passenger bus in Nanjing, Jiangsu province drove over a subway station under construction (specifically Line 3′s Daxinggong Station), and the road collapsed. The accident happend at the intersection of Taiping Road South and Zhongshan Road East. Shanghai Daily reports that, "An initial investigation showed flow a quicksand underground could have triggered the accident, Nanjing Metro authority said. Sand was poured back to even the underground structure in emergency measures, authority said." No one was injured, which is good. Road cave-ins in China have been known to kill. Youku video for those in China after the jump.

China’s Newest Badass Is Kung-Fu Master Who Thwarted A Mob Of Thugs Out To Evict Him Posted: 29 Nov 2012 10:36 AM PST Let it be noted that kung-fu pays. (Disclaimer: it doesn't always.) Shen Jianzhong, a 38-year-old man in Bazhou, Hebei province, fought off a mob of hoodlums who had been hired by a property developer to evict him and his family. We're told that he more or less knocked out seven men, with help from his sidekick, his son. The above video, which is a month old, recently went viral, showing the aftermath of a serious beatdown. Serious as in Adam West's Batman vs. the Joker's henchmen. Reports the Telegraph's Malcolm Moore: On October 29, as Mr Shen went to work and his wife popped out for a packet of instant noodles, a mob of "30 to 50 men" materialised at their front door. "My wife tried to close the door, but they pushed it back and she tripped over. That is how the fight started," said Mr Shen. With a flurry of kicks and punches, he and his 18-year-old son, a fellow kung fu devotee, set about the attackers, rendering seven of them near unconscious in the hallway. "It was self defence. I really cannot remember what kung fu skills I used. It was quite messy. Only seven people were injured because the rest were scared and stayed outside. Some of them ran away," he said. Police, of course, said it was Shen who was in the wrong, since the other guys were unarmed. Shen and his son are currently in Beijing, where the son has been arrested by police. "I think they are trying to fit up him up with some crime. I am concerned that my actions will end up hurting him," he said, acknowledging that officials may try to emotionally blackmail him into signing over his lease. As the Telegraph interviewed Mr Shen, however, his phone rang. It was, he said, a man named Zhou Jin, who claimed to be a member of the Central Military Commission, which oversees the People's Liberation Army. "He said he had seen my plight and was outraged. He said I should not give any interviews to the media and he would come and collect me in his car this afternoon," said Mr Shen. Shen joins an illustrious line of citizens who have fought back against pushy real estate developers. In May, an elder in Kunming fought off thugs with homemade Molotov cocktails. And who can ever forget Yang Youde, who built a cannon to blast his enemies. Shen one-ups them all though by fighting with his bare hands. We wish him the best against his next wave of enemies. (H/T Casey G., Shanghaiist)

Pub owner comes to Shanghai to visit rip-offs of her England properties Posted: 29 Nov 2012 07:30 AM PST Pirating DVDs and hairy crabs is one thing, but when you bootleg entire businesses someone's bound to get a bit cheesed off. One such individual is Gail Caddy, a bar owner in the coastal English town of Lyme Regis Dorset, who will be in Shanghai from November 30-December 2 visiting exact replicas of her establishments in Songjiang District's Thames Town. [ more › ]

China backs Palestinian bid to become UN observer state Posted: 29 Nov 2012 07:30 AM PST China will support Palestine's bid to become a non-member observer state at the United Nations, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hong Lei announced on Thursday. [ more › ]

Photos: First ever gay pride parade in Changsha Posted: 29 Nov 2012 07:00 AM PST           LGBT activists in Hunan province made a small but impressive step forward for equality this week, holding Changsha's first ever gay pride event. [ more › ]

Job advert seeking gay applicants removed after online uproar Posted: 29 Nov 2012 06:00 AM PST An online headhunter has been criticised for being homophobic after it bowed to online pressure to remove an advert which stated that for prospective candidates, being "homosexual is the first priority." [ more › ]

Bus almost swallowed whole by Nanjing sinkhole Posted: 29 Nov 2012 05:30 AM PST At 10.30am on Thursday morning, at the junction of Taiping South Road and Zhongshan East Road, a sinkhole opened and almost consumed a large public bus and the 31-passengers on board. Fortunately the size of the bus caused it to get stuck in the hole, and saved those on board from serious injury. The sinkhole emerged next to a Nanjing Metro construction site. [ more › ]

It’s China that can keep the UN climate talks alive Posted: 28 Nov 2012 09:51 AM PST China's new leaders may still be settling in, but Beijing has shown it is capable of maintaining political momentum towards a 2015 global deal on climate change. As the UN-led climate negotiations begin in Doha, monumental shifts across the global economy and politics are taking place. Nowhere is this more obvious than in China. China is at a critical juncture: the decisions made over the next few years will determine how it addresses some of the overwhelming challenges to its current development model. There have been positive signals, especially on the green economy. During the Communist Party's 18th National Congress in November this year, "ecological civilisation" featured heavily in outgoing president Hu Jintao's speech and was incorporated into the country's overall development plan. And earlier this year, the soon-to-be new premier of China Li Keqiang, on a visit to Europe, signalled the importance of greater collaboration between the European Union and China on clean energy by launching several major new processes on urbanisation, renewables and energy security. Read also: Insight into green vocabulary of the Chinese Communist Party China's programmes for addressing climate change domestically through its 12th Five-Year Plan are impressive. Accelerating progress on the low-carbon economy has worked in China's favour as it has become a global leader in wind and solar power manufacturing. The cliché that "when China sneezes, the rest of the world catches a cold" can also be turned on its head. When China makes up its mind to lead, the rest of the world follows suit.   Doha matters because the UNFCCC international climate negotiations are an important channel through which China can help shape the global development model in ways that re-enforce its low carbon economy. Europe is the largest market for Chinese solar power, but its internal negotiations on ramping up climate-change ambition – and therefore creating a larger market for Chinese goods – are being delayed by uncertainty over progress on a global climate regime. China has traditionally been a reluctant leader on the global stage, but it has come a long way. In these negotiations, China and the US positions have for years been pegged against each other, in a "if you move, I'll move" stand-off.  But we have also seen incremental change. In the 2009 climate meetings, China stepped out from behind the Americans, stood next to them in Cancún in 2010 and came out in front in Durban in 2011. At Durban, China was instrumental in agreeing a process and a deadline for a comprehensive and legally binding global agreement by 2015 to address climate change. Unlike China, many major emitters have not yet begun to stress test their national development models against future global risk scenarios such as resource scarcity. Many countries, rich and poor alike, struggle to understand the connections between climate change, energy, water and economic growth and are unable to apply foresight in their economic planning. This was starkly demonstrated this year by the economic vulnerability of the United States to the extreme droughts and storms of 2012. China's cultural emphasis on the significance of "harmony" between human development and nature as championed by Hu Jintao, demonstrates its ability and willingness to comprehend long-term global risks and plan ahead. In fact, Hu's doctrine of "scientific outlook on development" has been used to promote a more sustainable development pathway for China for the last 10 years. The UNFCCC, as a forum, should provide China with an opportunity to work with other countries to further its systemic understanding of global risks as a basis for increasing overall global economic and ecological stability. China creates new climate alliances But in Doha, China's negotiating mandate will be somewhat constrained as the new leaders take time to settle in. Without a strong mandate, negotiators will likely be instructed not to "rock the boat", as demonstrated by recent statements by Xie Zhenhua, China's chief climate negotiator, confirming his commitment to ensuring China plays a constructive role in moving forward from the Durban deal.  China is also keeping its options open. Xie recently hosted meetings with the BASIC group of countries – Brazil, South Africa, China and India – and the Like-Minded Group (a new and fluid alliance of predominately fossil-fuel producing developing countries). Keeping all options open, and being pragmatic is clearly China's tactic whilst its leaders get their feet under the table. At the negotiating table, China is pragmatic in its tactics and alliances, but also guided by principles which derive from its broader foreign policy – namely, sovereignty, solidarity and comparability. First, sovereignty to determine its own development pathway at a pace it feels comfortable with. Often China's negotiation positions and tactics are more regressive than their ambitious actions on the ground would suggest. Second, solidarity with the poor. More than any of the other large developing countries, and most developed countries, China is more sensitive to the needs of those most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. And finally, comparability, to ensure other countries come forward with sufficiently ambitious goals. While China is slowly disentangling itself from the US positioning, it still demands more ambition from developed countries. While Doha will not be the ambitious meeting the climate crisis requires, it will nonetheless be important for building momentum towards a comprehensive agreement in 2015. China's role in ensuring we do not renegotiate the Durban agreement will be essential to limiting climate risks in China and maintaining the drive towards a low carbon economy which China has so heavily invested in both financially and politically. Liz Gallagher is senior policy advisor at E3G.

Is China Emotionally Just Average? Posted: 29 Nov 2012 06:34 AM PST Clicked on a Washington Post article entitled, "A color-coded map of the world's most and least emotional countries," because it was showing as the most read WaPo article today.  The article contains the following map of "emotions": The World's Emotions Mapped — China Too The map reflects the results of Gallup surveys taken since 2009: Since 2009, the Gallup polling firm has surveyed people in 150 countries and territories on, among other things, their daily emotional experience. Their survey asks five questions, meant to gauge whether the respondent felt significant positive or negative emotions the day prior to the survey. The more times that people answer "yes" to questions such as "Did you smile or laugh a lot yesterday?", the more emotional they're deemed to be. Gallup has tallied up the average "yes" responses from respondents in almost every country on Earth. The results, which I've mapped out above, are as fascinating as they are indecipherable. The color-coded key in the map indicates the average percentage of people who answered "yes." Dark purple countries are the most emotional, yellow the least. China scores right in the middle, which probably seems about right to me, assuming the survey accurately measures emotions and assuming that the emotions it measures are the same ones I am thinking about.  People in China do sometimes smile — certainly more than in Russia but less than in the United States.  People in China sometimes scream and yell and fight — certainly more than in Singapore, but less than in Korea.  But of course people smile and scream and yell and fight everywhere, so I don't know…. Is this map accurate?  Do these surveys accurately portray China? What do you think?

Hebei Kung Fu expert beats the crap out of hired thugs sent to evict him Posted: 29 Nov 2012 05:00 AM PST When a group of hired thugs were sent to evict a family from their property in Bazhou, Hebei Province, they didn't expect any difficulty, there were 30 of them after all. They didn't count on Shen Jianzhong however. [ more › ]

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