The local expat magazine 8days has a great article on swimming pools in Shanghai. It includes prices, pics, opening times etc. Although most of the swimming entrance fees are slightly steep, I’ll probably try one in the coming time.
One of the best deals is the Olympic-sized Pudong Swimming Pool. It costs 25 Renminbi […]

Baidu is still very much in the lead and expanding it’s reach in the Chinese war of the search engines. At least according to Shanghai based company Iresearch.
The data used to come to this conclusion is based on address bar search, Alexa data and a survey they did themselves.
It’s hard to interpret the data […]

Romance was all over the city yesterday. Interesting to see how Valentine’s Day, which in essence is an US marketing concept driven by retailers who needed another excuse to sell their ware, has taken hold here in Shanghai.
Half of W.’s colleagues got flowers and/or chocolates from their boyfriends/husbands. People even sent each […]

The Portman Ritz Carlton has a bookshop where they sell papers. Normal papers , meaning not originating from the mainland. The Hotel is the absolute top in Shanghai, maybe even in China and has, as it goes with a 5 star hotel, staff that pretend to understandEnglish and pretend to give 5 star service. […]

A nice piece on the infamous censors of the Chinese internet, found and translated by Zonaeuropa.
The job description of a chinese internet police woman can be summed up like this:
The principal work of the (China) Internet police is to look around the Internet to catch criminals. They monitor the Internet bars (to check […]

While the clash of civilizations is continuing I went to the Bus station near the Jing An Temple.
I used to take taxis to the Shanghai Pudong Airport or the Maglev but the Airport Bus No. 2 is the most convenient and a lot cheaper as well. A taxi costs about 150 Kuai, a […]