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3G rollout in china now iphone’s coming to china via china unicom
on shanghai china unicom’s site, there is already a detailed page on the iphone shanghai china unicom’s iphone product page - though it says coming july 2008??

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China is finally getting 3G！
If I had a nickel for every time I heard that “3G is just around the corner”
Last week, the gov’t finally gave out 3G licenses! As opposed to the US where carriers bid on spectrum, it’s doled out to the state-owned carriers.
There are probably a million reasons as to […]

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The other day I asked a cabbie if they did better business in the summer or winter. He said the best is during the summer when it’s blazing hot. I replied, oh, so it’s not so great now? He said, yeah, and especially because of the financial crisis.
Huh?
He said a […]

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whew…51 episodes and 17 hours later, I finally finished my marathon viewing of “Full Metal Alchemist 鋼の錬金術師“.
Binging on tv drama series is a pretty common occurrence here amongst my friends…thus, I found myself doing it waaaay more since moving here. In comparison, I can count on 1 hand the number of marathon tv series […]

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No need to reprise the lack of intellectual property in China - but I’ve always thought (as many people much smarter than I) that when the day comes that domestic companies have IP to protect, it’ll become a focus.
Remarkably, I’ve been seeing a slew of IP court cases recently such as Ctrip (think travelocity) suing […]

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Baidu has been getting a barrage of bad press lately - first was taking payment to remove links to negative press about the milk powder scandal.
Now in a most recent ‘expose’ by CCTV (gasp!?!), they uncover that Baidu has been taking advertising from fake online pharmacies. Aside from the obvious, why has […]

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What do these 3 things have in common?

It’s that they all cost 1 RMB!
Believe it or not, most restaurants charge you 1 RMB for napkins and for the really annoying skinflints, 1 RMB for chopsticks (even for reusable chopsticks and towelettes) ! Small Fat Lamb (hotpot restaurant) use to be like that, but I […]

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The earthquake in Sichuan happened a little over a week ago, but I was actually oblivious to it until 10 minutes later some of my friends IM’ed me asking if I felt it. Nada…but for some of my friends in high-rises, they said the entire building shook laterally at least 3 feet for […]

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As I signed onto MSN instant messenger yesterday, I was greeted with a bunch of “heart china” signatures.
too lazy to take my own screenshot, here is one from shanghaiist

Similarly reported by Shanghaiist and Wangjainshuo according to QQ MSN China tabulates over 2 million users adding this signature! (in chinese)
To summarize, this was a […]

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At the behest of my friend to by a bicycle, I succumbbed and bought this bike last week. My only regret is that I didn’t do it sooner!
Mine is the shiny red one.

And it folds up too! Which is nice in case I get tired and can just put it in a taxi or head […]

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