Quickies Posts

Aug312011

Have a nice Shanghai home? Show it off on HGTV

Home & garden Television (HGTV) is hunting for some Shanghai-based American expats to feature on a new international series profiling what it’s like to live abroad.

HGTV Producers want to hear from fun, outgoing, enthusiastic Americans Expats who are living in Shanghai RIGHT NOW!

In each episode, our host will experience Shanghai through the eyes of expat families. From the design of your space (what features of your home are typical of properties in Shanghai?) to the lifestyle and culture of the area (what major life changes have you experienced as a result of your move? What do you do for fun?), the American Expats will give viewers a first hand look at what it’s like to live overseas.

If you’re interested in taking part email photos of you and your family along with photos of your home to the show’s producer: Callie Zanandrie ([email protected])

Aug312010

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Expo Scoop: Miss World 2005 @ Iceland Pavilion

Miss World @ Shanghai Expo Iceland Pavilion

If you’re heading to the Shanghai Expo and don’t feel like spending your day under the sun in line for one of the biggie pavilions; head over to the (surely cool) Iceland Pavilion, where you can rub elbows with Miss World 2005 Unnur Birna Vilhjálmsdóttir. According to the Iceland Expo site, Unnur is heading up the role of Deputy Director of Pavilion and Director for PR & Events (I figure that between her name and her title, she must need two business cards).

Huge hat tip and thanks to Lost Laowai reader Giulia for snapping the photo and sending in the tip. In talking to Unnur at the pavilion she mentioned she was only going to be at the pavilion for the next couple weeks, so if you’d like to meet a real-life Miss World, head on over soon.

Jun032010

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Vimeo unblocked at the moment — eat it up while you can

Vimeo Logo Yesterday Elaine at the Shanghaiist reported a number of sites were miraculously unblocked — Vimeo, Hootsuite, VOA News. Checking now and it appears Hootsuite has re-fallen to the mighty River Crab, but Vimeo is still powering along … for now.

Twitter, Youtube and Facebook are all still unaccessible.

Sep302009

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Where to watch the PRC’s 60th Anniversary Celebration?

eChinaCities has a good rundown of what we can expect from tomorrow’s massive 60th anniversary celebration marking the founding of the People’s Republic of China. It can be watched online in English via CCTV9 starting first thing in the morning. Like most China-centric sites, you may have troubles loading the players in anything other than [...]

Aug122009

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Rick

An American in China via Japan

As someone who has just shown up in Japan by way of China, this China via Japan series over on Going Loco in Yokohama is pretty fascinating to me. China via Japan Pt 1 China via Japan Pt 2 China via Japan Pt 3 It looks like there might be more installments of this series [...]

Aug112009

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Twitter users help free Chinese blogger

If you read nothing else today, read this: “How Did I Break [out of] Jail?“. The incredible first-hand account of how Chinese blogger Peter Guo (Guo Baofeng), better known as Amoiist, was arrested but managed to get an SOS message out via his Twitter, which then turned into an international campaign to see him released. [...]

Apr222009

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The next NEXT player from Neocha

Neocha, the net’s premier source of Chinese indie music, has just released the newest version of their NEXT player. We spoke to Neocha founder Sean Leow about the first version NEXT player and Neocha nearly a year ago, and have been using it rather faithfully since. Despite its awesomeness, everything evolves and NEXT 2.0 has done just that.

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Mar032009

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No Oasis for China! Chinese heard to say, “who?”

You may have heard that the planned Oasis shows in Beijing and Shanghai next month have been canceled. Apparently 12 years isn’t enough time to separate a musician and his ties to a certain autonomous region’s freedom concert. Though no “official” reason has been given for the cancellation, the concert’s promoters said it was due [...]

Feb092009

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Ryan

Fire in The Boot – Pants OK

The Mandarin Oriental Hotel, what upon opening this year would have been one of Beijing’s most exclusive and luxurious hotels, lit up like a, well, like a lantern tonight while the rest of the country celebrated Lantern Festival. Proving again the newsability of Twitter, the story broke online as it happened, with videos appearing on [...]

Jan202009

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Ryan

I’m QQ – wait, no I’m not.

China’s wildly popular IM service has “quietly” launched a new portal focused on the international market – IMQQ.com. According to a post on Mobinode: “An email sent from an insider, reveals that Tencent has just quietly launched its international portal for QQ, IMQQ.com where you can find all the English information you need to try [...]