After two long years, the void left by the departure of Jerry Liu has been filled by telecommunications technologist Li Yinan. Li was the former Chief Technology Scientist at Huawei Technologies andov...
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The video of this young Korean gamer who launches into a 5 and a half minute long diatribe against Chinese gamers and their supposed lack of game knowledge and gaming ethics has riled thousands of Chi...
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The newly launched Marks and Spencers on Nanjing Xi Lu is off to a rather inauspicious start — barely a few days after Shanghai shoppers went on a rampage at the store, an Indian national has fallen t...
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Photo by Jakob MontrasioMore 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@...
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A fireworks technician died yesterday in an explosion in Century Park, Pudong — and he wasn't even lighting any fireworks. 26 year old Pu Jiliang from Henan province died on the spot at around 12.30pm...
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Tony Birtley of Al-Jazeera reports that between 70,000 and 200,000 babies, children and women are kidnapped each year around China. Baby boys are sold for as much as US$5,000 to desperate childless co...
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Xinhua News Agency tells us of a celebration held by the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist)in London for the 59th anniversary of The People's Republic of China. The party's head Harpa...
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A few instant gems from the clip:"This is a testament to the progress of the Chinese people. Todaywe sent a man into space fully conscious, and without shackles.""China's first manned mission into spa...
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Welcome to the latest episode of Chinese Soundbites, a podcast series brought to you by ChinesePod and Shanghaiist. Every week we'll be bringing you topics and words pulled straight from the headlines...
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Marks & Spencer's 40,000 sq ft Shanghai store opened yesterday on Nanjing Xi Lu, as hordes of curious Shanghai shoppers rushed for its lingerie, biscuits and jam, writes The Times.Health officials hav...
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New Zealander Rob Thompson set out from Leysin, Switzerland on June 24, 2007 and spent the next 15 months on the world's longest journey by skateboard ever. He travelled 12,000km solo and unsupported ...
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The New York Times reports that a Canadian human-rights activist cum researcher at the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto has discovered that instant messaging (IM) conversations over the Tom-Sk...
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ChinaSmack points us to this shocking and sad story of 11 year old student Zhang Yaoyin in Hunan Province who had her had smashed against the desk by her teacher numerous times, then hit savagely with...
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Officials from the International Gymnastics Federation have ruled that China's gold medal gymnasts were old enough to compete in the Beijing Olympics but two members from the Chinese squad that compet...
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Holiday tourists flock to Beijing, drawn in part by Olympic venues [Xinhua] "Tourist arrivals here rose 14.4 percent year-on-year in the first two days of the National Day holiday, with 635,000 travel...
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About 30,000 people gathered on Tiananmen Square at 6.10am for the flag-raising ceremony on China's 51st National Day. A flock of doves was freed after the national anthem was sung.
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Elton John and Tim Rice's stylistically eclectic rock musical AIDA opened in Shanghai to a full house at the Majestic Theater last Saturday, starring Marja Harmon as Aida, Casey Elliott as Radames, an...
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More and more international and Chinese brands are getting embroiled in the tainted milk scandal. Latest news from the Straits Times:SOUTH Korea's food watchdog said on Tuesday that two more snacks im...
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Sky Canaves of WSJ's China Journal tells us of the first lawsuit in China involving "human flesh search engines" whereby the plaintiff has been awarded damages.Baidu, the search engine that's been acc...
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