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Author Archives: Mauro Marescialli
It’s a condom! No, it’s a popsicle!
It’s called ‘Softy Snowpaste’ (泡泡雪泥). ‘Softy Snowpaste’ is a new popsicle produced by the Alida company, hailing from Jilin province. After being launched on the market only a few days ago, ‘Softy Snowpaste’ has already caused a stir among consumers. … Continue reading
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Real love
This morning a crowd of about 150 Chinese fans, gathered in front of the Kunlun Hotel to greet the stars of Real Madrid coming into town. Many girls were holding posters of Beckham and handwritten messages of love dedicated to … Continue reading
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Silence of the Dogs: a serial dog-killer in Beijing?
If you live in the Fang Zhuang area of Beijing, and you own a dog you better BEWARE! According to today’s Legal Mirror, in the past two days 10 dogs have died of alleged poisoning in the courtyard of a … Continue reading
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Footie stars in Beijing: money for ‘Real’
Chinese football (soccer) is quite uninspiring. The national Super League is marred by a rather low technical level, match fixing, and it is poorly managed by the bureaucrats of the Chinese Football Federation. Chinese fans are dismissive about the depressing … Continue reading
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Beijing Times: WAP Porn invades mobile phones!
Danwei: We told you!
Today’s Beijing Times features an article with the headline ‘Porn Sites Invade the Mobile Phone Web’. According to the article every WAP enabled mobile phone can have access to several sites with explicit pornographic content. The authorities are inviting mobile … Continue reading
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Danwei: We told you!
Danwei: We told you!
Legal Mirror: Beijing desperately seeking A-yis!
Legal Mirror’s weekly column ‘Checking Your Pockets’ provides interesting info about the average salaries of different industries in the Chinese capital. The pockets checked this week are those of the thousands of housekeepers, or A-yi (阿姨) or baomu (保姆), employed … Continue reading
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Sweepin’ da filth: Beijing Vice Squad in action!
Being the law abiding, straitlaced individual that you are, you may have not noticed that between June 20 and July 3, the Beijing Vice Squad clamped down on hundreds of fine entertainment venues in the city. According to today’s Legal … Continue reading
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Record sales for Bentley in Beijing
Today’s Beijing Times reports that on June 24th the fiftieth Bentley car has been sold in Beijing to the president of a local real estate company. Currently, the prestigious British manufacturer holds a 50% market share in the Capital for … Continue reading
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Jay Chow: come to my concert, it’s for free!
Jay Chow (周杰伦) is a Taiwanese mega popstar. Jay Chow will perform at Beijing’s Workers Stadium on the 9th of July. However, no tickets are sold for this concert. Weird? Damn right. In order to cover the high costs of … Continue reading
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How much money does a model make in Beijing?
Famous and experienced advertising models can ask for daily fees up to RMB50,000 (about USD6,000); less famous and inexperienced models get much less than that: RMB3,000 to 9,000 (USD360 to 720) per day, whereas young girls just starting out can make about RMB500 a day (USD60). However, most models are managed by agencies, which take as much as 60% of each model’s revenue.
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