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Xinhua dryly reports that Whitney Houston will perform next month in Shanghai, along with the Backstreet Boys: Earlier, authorities have reportedly given the go-ahead for a concert in Shanghai on July 22, while did not appear to have made their … Continue reading →

An international news agency is looking for the following: Editor / correspondent, English native speaker. Needs good Chinese language skills. A translation test will be necessary. Preference will be made for candidates available for interview in Shanghai. Core competencies: Writing … Continue reading →

David Shadrack Smith is an honorary member of the Mongolian Equestrian Society, a documentary filmmaker and erstwhile resident of Beijing. He writes from New York: For those of you that have televisions, I strongly urge you to tune in this … Continue reading →

CNN reports on the Shanghai Film Festival: “I love Chinese movies and don’t get enough of them in the United States and that’s why people hold film festivals to make others aware of films in other countries,” said Streep, quoted … Continue reading →

SABMiller, the beer behemoth that grew out of South African Breweries to become the world’s second largest brewery, has just pulled a magnificent trick on Anheuser-Busch, the world’s largest brewery. SABMiller owns a 29% stake in Harbin Brewery Group which … Continue reading →

“It’s tough to make money in the advertising business in China” says Momoe Okabe (29), a ten-year Beijing resident who has been involved in the ad industry for six years. She is shortly to leave Grey, where she has been … Continue reading →

Journalists at China’s state-owned news organs are not known for their enthusiasm for research. But here’s a case where an intrepid reporter from the Shanghai Star (an affiliate of the China Daily) went the extra mile to make sure he … Continue reading →

Or as they say round these parts: Thanks to Goran Leijonhufvud for the image.

The Shanghai Film Festival runs from June 5 to 13 this year. The most important award is the Jinjue Award, which is supposed to be the Shanghai equivalent of Cannes’ Palme D’Or. A source we can call Deep Chicken (who … Continue reading →