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Painting Portrait of Yao Ming with a Basketball (Video)
By Star Chang, posted January 26, 2012 at 7:57 AM, 458 views
China greatest basketball player Yao Ming has already retired last year. There are few better adjectives to describe a great basketball player than “inspirational”. If an athlete, especially from China, is truly great, he makes other people want to accomplish great things themselves too. A young girl in Shanghai who love to create art not with the usual paintbrush or pencils though, used a basketball and some red color paint to paint a portrait of Yao Ming. Check out the interesting video after the break.
Gang of Red Cap Scalpers Crushes Shanghai Apple Store for iPhone 4S Launch (video!)
By Chris Chang, posted January 12, 2012 at 12:45 PM, 4,888 views
OMFG. Huge lines for the iPhone 4S are seen at all five Apple stores in China, and in the Beijing Apple store, we see hundreds of queuers with red caps getting ready to buy the iPhone 4S to resell later at a profit. A lot of photos and video after the break.
Chinese Factory Workers of Apple, HP and Motorola Go Protest in Shanghai
By Herman Lai, posted December 7, 2011 at 12:06 PM, 499 views
There are growing series of labor disputes in China. Following from last week labor strike at an electronic supplier plant in Shenzhen, here is another one. The strike involved around 400 hundreds of workers, they went on a seven-day strike strike outside of Hi-P International electronics plant to protest for compensation and layoff.
Shanghai Hotel Makes World’s Longest Christmas Cake (Videos)
By Herman Lai, posted December 6, 2011 at 9:13 PM, 415 views
A team of 80 chefs from Shangri-La in Pudong, an area of Shanghai managed to break one of the Guinness World Record…and that’s the longest cake in the world. The team gradually baked a cake for 7 days in order to assemble a length of 1068 meters, making it becomes world’s longest Christmas cake. The cake is made out of 904 of eggs, 1045 kg of flours, 209 kg of sugars, 401 kg of dark chocolate and 34 kg of vanilla. What a massive production…
Chinglish: Hair Salon Offers You An “Exoerience Price”
By Herman Lai, posted November 28, 2011 at 5:48 PM, 567 views
The most unknown price on earth — “Exoerience price”, it is originated by a Chinese hair salon located in Shanghai. They offer “Wash Cut Blow”, “Hair Color” and “Wave Hair” services…Let’s exoerience!
[Thanks Sue!]
Shanghai’s Network Speed Finally Increased
By Star Chang, posted November 25, 2011 at 4:17 PM, 580 views
Shanghai, the leading global city in China, has reported early this year that the city internet speeds was the slowest. It was clocking in at just 73.2KB per second, this was below the national average (100.9KB per second) and ridiculously short of the international average (230.4KB per second). Now China Telecom has finally upped the speed of its broadband network in Shanghai, and the upgrade is free. The upgrade of the network is processed at the backstage, broadband users in Shanghai do not need to upgrade their cable modem, or having technical personnel to visit their home for extra set up …
Google’s ‘Creative Sandbox’ In Shanghai, China
By Star Chang, posted November 14, 2011 at 12:17 PM, 375 views
Ok, so what is Google’s ‘Creative Sandbox’ ? It is a Google’s technology event show in which Google products are demonstrated for industry’s designers and marketing executives on advertising. The show has already hosted in many global cities like New York, San Francisco, new Delhi, Brazil and Sydney, and the event is not opened for public. The show will present Google’s latest technology which can contribute creative idea and inspiration to advertising. This year, Google has decided to bring its ‘Creative Sandbox’ event to Shanghai, China. But due to restriction from the Chinese government on internet freedom, most of the Google’s product are not ‘present’ in China. It is interesting to see how Google communicates with their Chinese business partners and local ad agency under the atmosphere of communism…
Nikon Mirrorless Cameras Are Made in China
By Chris Chang, posted October 27, 2011 at 5:09 PM, 7,945 views
Two things. One, we love micro four thirds but we aren’t impressed by the new Nikon mirrorless cameras — the V1 and J1 . Two, here’s an in-depth look at the Chinese factory that makes Nikon’s mirrorless cameras.
Steve Jobs Biography Launch in China Draws Crowds, 250,000 Copies Sold (video)
By Chris Chang, posted October 26, 2011 at 6:15 PM, 2,700 views
The launch of the Steve Jobs biography in China drew thousands of shoppers, emptying most of Chinese book shops’ inventory and guess what, all 250,000 Chinese edition copies of Jobs’ authorized biography are sold within a day of its release. This is phenomenal.
Rovio Opens International Office in Shanghai
By Chris Chang, posted October 19, 2011 at 2:57 PM, 480 views
Why spend thousands of dollars on opening an office in Shanghai? Well, Rovio is marking a clear step to further penetrate the Chinese market that has witnessed thriving business growth during the past year. 40 million people in China have download the Angry Birds game, so Rovio is opening its first overseas operation in Shanghai to show its appreciation to Chinese fans.
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