The racing cars are coming to town. As it is, the F1 these days is as boring as watching a cup of coffee being made in Starbucks. Okay, I have to correct myself here. The first 5 minutes of the race can be fun as this is the moment with the highest probability cars […]

In the category, almost Friday, another Panda story.

Here’s the summary
Drunken immigrant worker (note that as always a distinction is made between city slickers and those beyond the urban border) Zhang visits Beijing Zoo, jumps into the panda enclosure, hugs the panda and gets bitten.
Nothing weird about that, invading on the Panda privacy should […]

Excerpts from an interview with China’s top Internet cop, Mr. Li Wufeng.
We don’t censor, we don’t know how
“We have neither the technology nor the manpower to censor or filter the Internet”, Li told us. “We have just dozens of people in the Internet affairs bureau. Half of them are here today [in the room],” […]

Update:
Well, it seems that the wordpress.com website is still unblocked but the sub domains are again unavailable. What a pity.
Yet another blog service is accessible in China. Not so long ago it were the blogspot blogs that had the honour of passing the great firewall unharmed.
Wordpress.com, another host for blogs, is (for now) available. Curiously […]

A small little tidbit of bureaucrat reality I found in an article that was actually about a newsconference about the eased restrictions on access to the mainland market for Hong Kong’s film and television industry. (sorry, long sentence)
Zhao Shi, deputy director of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (aka SARFT), told the […]

I am sure I will never make it as a copy editor:) but these were the words that came to mind reading a classified in the SH magazine.
A pawn shop or individual offering its services to poor foreigners. A niche I never thought of before.

The only time I wandered into a pawn shop […]

Since March 2006 Google has again added China to their monthly zeitgeist.

Zeitgeist is described by Google as:
a cumulative snapshot of interesting queries people are asking – some over time, some within country domains, and some on Google.com – that perhaps reveal a bit of the human condition.
The queries show trends and are not […]