Wednesday, September 21, 2005
Posted by Roberto
3:38 AM
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CHINA: OUTBOUND TOURISM
64 countries and regions have opened their doors to Chinese tourists, including 30 in Europe, 18 in Asia and 10 in Africa. According to government figures, last year, 29 million Chinese tourists headed overseas. The figure is expected to hit 40 million as more overseas destinations open up.
Monday, September 19, 2005
Posted by Roberto
3:36 AM
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SHANGHAIIST
Shanghaiist follows the "gothamist.com" concept: a series of highly-successfull city blogs founded by Jake Dobkin in New York in 2002. Six staff and twenty contributors review Shanghai's gossip, local and national papers to make the first "-ist" in Asia a successful website. London, Los Angeles, Toronto and Paris are among the eleven cities with "-ist" web-magazines.
Shanghaiist.com
Wednesday, September 14, 2005
Posted by Roberto
2:44 PM
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FASTFOOD SHANGHAI-STLYE :)
At a convenience store, a packet of 4 pieces of chickens' feet (that is, runners of 2 chickens, if you think about it) can be had for 38 euro cents. Down it with a cardboard packet of milk for 20 euro cents. From European eyes, the packaging is both funny and intriguing.
Tuesday, September 13, 2005
Posted by Roberto
3:56 AM
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SHANGHAI SNAPSHOT
PARKING
An online parking information system has been launched in Shanghai to assist some two million drivers.
www.jt.sh.cn (Chinese only).
MINIMUM WAGE
Due to the great gap in wealth between the developed cities on the coast and the impoverished inland, China has no national minimum wage. According to Xinhua News Agency, the minimum hourly wage for part-time workers in Shanghai went up from RMB 5.5 to 6 (including migrant workers and casual labourers).
6 RMB = 0.60 EUR.
DATING
Jinglinggirl.com targets men who are too busy or shy to meet women: for a membership of RMB 300, a "genius girl" can be hired to help facilitate introductions, by accompanying men to social events.
Monday, September 12, 2005
Posted by Roberto
12:26 PM
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WILL EBAY PAY TOO MUCH FOR SKYPE?
As EBay prepares to pay 4.1bn for Skype, in a move to add free voice calls to its online auctions and fuel growth, Skype users in China are worried that the Chinese government will soon block Skype usage. This will ensure the profitability of Chinese telcos.
With a potential loss of 120 million Internet users from the equation, 4.1B may be too much for EBay to pay.
At the moment, Skype still works fine out of Shanghai, but the South China Morning Post (biz.scmp.com) has just published an article called "Cyber barbarians at the gate" mentioning that China Telecom installed blocking equipment in several Chinese provinces and they just run a test in Shenzen to block Skype users. This is likely a threat to get Skype to the negotiating table to talk about revenue-sharing.
"Western investors ...
don't know anything about China
or anything about my company"
-- Charles Zhang, Sohu chief executive
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