This is a poster right outside a Hot Pot restaurant in Shenzhen. You can also spot these types of images around Hong Kong – huge posters of full roast ducks smiling out from bus stations across town. The Chinese have absolutely none of the Western hypocrisy around seeing what animal their meat came from. On [...]
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Once I crossed into China at the Hong Kong-Shenzhen border, I spotted these signs everywhere – ‘No U-Turns’ and ‘No Refluence’! I’m fascinated by just how the Chinese authorities chose these words. Definitely not a gwailo working there and most probably translated from a Mandarin-English dictionary. Mandarin is so poetic, seems reasonable that they chose [...] This is a fashion store in Shenzhen, China. Lots of Hahley-Davidson fashion items for an L.A.BOY like me A friend put it nicely as we were sipping our 7-11 champagne out of plastic cups in front of Mes Amis, right after the Hong Kong Sevens final game. She said ‘This city is like living in Neverland; you never have to grow up, and nobody thinks you’re ridiculous for doing things your own way’. [...] “Will it rain today?” Apparently mInfo, a Shanghai-based mobile search startup, is working on a service that will be able to answer such a question on our phones. They intend to understand natural language queries inputed by users on their mobile phones, and to deliver highly relevant answers. The service allows you to retrieve search [...] In the Chinese city of Xiamen, authorities have halted construction of a chemical plant after residents sent more than 1 million mobile phone text messages protesting possible pollution dangers. What is interesting here is that in such a regime where people have limited power when getting together physically to protest, ubiquitous technology such as SMS [...] |
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