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China runs out of surnames | The Register
“China has been forced to mull the possibility of allowing double-barrelled surnames - a break with the ancient tradition that citizens adopt one of a hundred single character surnames.”
(tags: China culture)

The 10th Shanghai International Film Festival
The festival website includes a schedule and news. Some of the films include [...]

It is common practice for Shanghainese pet owners to take their pet animals to the grooming parlour for a shampoo, cut and blow dry. We are not sure about doing this for short haired cats, because they hate getting wet and they are quite capable of bathing themselves, although ours was pretty grubby after we [...]

Man Push Cart is possibly the scariest film I have seen for quite some time even though there are no scenes of blood or threatening villains.
The film is just a story about a Pakistani immigrant called Ahmad who is struggling with work and life in New York. While most New Yorkers sleep, Ahmad fetches, [...]

Express Yourself with Gizmoz Video Clips
I’ve been playing with this new avatar making website called Gizmoz. The website is a bit flaky, but you can upload your own photographs to make hyper-real avatars that can be published as widgets or animated messages on your blog. You can style your avatar, change the background and even [...]

You may be wondering when a high speed third generation mobile network (3G) is coming to China. We are jealous of our friends in other countries who can use their cellphones to make video calls, stream music, download podcasts and even find lost dogs. Mobile Internet browsing with current technology (2G) often feels similar to [...]

After two months of traipsing around countless appartments in Huangpu and Luwan, it looks like we have finally found a flat that we want to buy. It’s big enough, centrally located and it’s even affordable by downtown standards. I am not going to tempt fate by giving away too much information until we get the [...]