atomicskate - Shanghai…

Ok, this video is talking about skateboard, but it could be enlarge to rollerskate, BMX & MTB, stunt…

Hope that one day, local authorities (I don’t speak specifically about China, but everywhere all over the world!…) would understand what is said on this video
The narrator is true: when you’re a rider, you look at the cities as an experiencing environment: stairs, walls, handrails, gaps, …
"Public space" just doesn’t have the same meaning.

Seven hours away from Shanghai, in Zhèjiāng province (浙江), I enjoyed my first canyoning experience!

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taken on: July 7th, 2007
at:  厦门观音山 (Xiamen, GuanYin mountain)
by: Diablotim
with: Canon EOS 400D DIGITAL
comment: 不外卖土鸡，鸭每斤十八元 (No take-away for free-range chicken, duck price is 18rmb/500gr)
original file: download link

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Thanks to Killy-the-frog for the info!

Two Britons have been arrested by Chinese police after they unfurled giant pro-Tibet banners outside the Beijing Olympic Stadium, activists claim.

A protester descends a pole to an awaiting policeman after hanging a banner which reads ‘Tibet will be free 西藏自由 (xīzàng zìyóu)’ near the National Stadium before the Beijing Olympic Games

A protester hangs a pro-Tibet banner near the Olympic stadium just two days ahead of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games
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Yesterday, on the Telegraph:
A tourist in a vibrant green Borat-style ‘mankini’ bathing suit cools off at Crab Island water park in Beijing

But the Telegraph is hiding you some information!
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English

8月4日上午8时许，新疆维吾尔自治区喀什地区边防支队遭遇暴力袭击，目前已导致16人死亡，16人受伤，已有两名犯罪嫌疑人被抓获。人民网称此次事件为“暴力恐怖袭击”，是近来国内相继发生数起暴力袭警事件中，官方首次使用“恐怖”二字。

对于袭击过程，新华社和人民网均称，当时喀什市边防支队正在集体出早操，行至怡金宾馆门前时，突遭两名犯罪嫌疑人驾车袭击，后者引爆了车上的爆炸物。而新 华社英文稿则表示，两名犯罪嫌疑人所驾货车撞到路边电线杆后，两人下车用刀乱砍，还将两枚手榴弹扔进正在晨练的武警队伍中。14人当场死亡，两人死在送往 医院的路上。
 
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中文

It seems that if you go to Beijing during the Olympics, you can’t communicate interact with local people, because it’s not a good etiquette…
Chinese people won’t be able to reply to your questions and they won’t ask you anything. In this way, no smudge is possible
Here are the posters with guiding rules:

Translation:

“Eight Don’t-Asks” When Chatting with Foreign Guests
- Don’t ask about income or expenses
- Don’t ask about age
- Don’t ask about love life or marriage
- Don’t ask about health
- Don’t ask about someone’s home or address
- Don’t ask about personal experience
- Don’t ask about religious beliefs or political views
- Don’t ask what someone does

mmm… Actually I think that speaking about weather isn’t forbidden. Great.
 
 
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中文

Seems that salaries in China are once and for all uncompetitive…
That’s to be added to the fact that foreign companies already highlighted difficulties to work efficiently with their Chinese partners (communication, quality respect, IPR…) & to the fact that re-localizing industries closer to the consumer (i.e. Eastern Europe for Western European consumers) would cost less in term of logistics & shipping-transportation.

So, is it the next trend for foreign industries in China???

Adidas, the second-biggest sportswear company in the world, feels that Chinese salaries are now too high and it will transfer some production to more competitive countries, its chief executive said in an interview on Monday.

"Salaries, which are set by the government, have become too high" in China, Herbert Hainer told the business weekly Wirtschaftswoche.

Chinese production of Adidas sportswear, about half of the group’s total, "is going to decline," Hainer added.

"We have already opened our first factory in India. Countries like Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam will be added," the Adidas boss noted.

"Production will also return to former Soviet republics and eastern European countries," but not to Germany, Hainer said.

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摇滚在中国还没有死了，但是也还没有出生。。。
我的意思是在中国有非常好的摇滚乐队，但是我自己问他们怎么可以发展？
Re-TROS（重塑雕像的权利），也可以叫Rebuilding the Rights of Statues是我的一个最喜爱在中国。
第一次我去他们的音乐会两年以前在TangHui吧，他们玩音乐放天安门1989年的电影：一个月以后那个酒吧永久关门。。。

 
 
更多消息：
http://wiki.chaile.org/index.php/Re-TROS