How did you enjoy the season debut of Game of Thrones yesterday? (No spoilers, please.) Enough to watch its opening cinematic co-opted by baijiu brand Jian Nan for a commercial?
The video is a few months old, but it was just posted on That's Beijing yesterday, with RFH writing:
ot sure what explains the Game of Thrones connection, other than that Chinese history is too long, often unwieldy, tortuously complicated, filled with names you cannot remember and most of the last few hundred years is to be found in the Fantasy section.
The customer is always right. Even in China, Apple CEO Tim Cook has realized that this business mantra is true. The customer is always right, even if they insist on double standards -- one for domestic companies, another for foreign -- and even if they're whiny, and even if they can't be trusted.
The customer is always right -- so on Monday, Cook, on behalf of Apple, issued an apology to Chinese consumers on its website, after "deep reflection." "We express our sincerest apologies for any concerns or misunderstandings," he wrote (translated into Chinese).
In China, if you can’t beat them, call upon your buddies in a high-ranking ministry to bring them down to your level. China Telecom, China Unicom, and China Mobile, three state-owned telecom enterprises, apparently feel so threatened by Tencent’s free Weixin (WeChat) program — specifically its ability to allow users to text and send voice... Read more »
Boy they do start young, don’t they? Hart Hagerty, who runs the blog Shanghai Style Life, was celebrating Easter in Shanghai’s Fuxing Park yesterday when she saw this. More pictures are posted over at her website, where she writes: My jaw dropped when his pajama-clad mother handed the tot a cigarette… then lit it for him... Read more »
This is how escalation works. First there are 900 dead pigs in a Shanghai river. Then there are 16,000 dead pigs, plus a thousand or so dead ducks. Then there are dead humans… aaaannd this game is over. The government of Lanzhou, capital of Gansu province, announced on March 28 that “around 100 bodies on... Read more »
A People's Liberation Army Air Force jet, a double-seat Su-27UBK fighter, according to Global Times, crashed in Rongcheng, Shandong province yesterday afternoon, killing both pilots.
GT reports that the pilots apparently had ejected, making it "unclear why they did not survive."
Move over, H5N1. There’s a new strain of bird flu that can infect and kill humans — though currently it does not appear to be contagious. Xinhua reports that three humans came down with H7N9 avian influenza recently in Shanghai and Anhui province. The two from Shanghai are dead, while the other, a 35-year-old woman from... Read more »
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We caught wind of Morgan Short's imminent arrival to Beijing last summer, with our informant adding without equivocation that Smart Shanghai, of which Morgan is the chief editor, was the best expat website of its kind.
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