

The latest marvel of Chinese engineering to be doing the rounds online are some of the ultra-slim buildings of Shanghai, earning such high praise as “looking just like a movie set” and “being even thinner than Japan’s.”
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SHN48, China’s answer to AKB48, have lately been making waves amongst the Japanese – although so far more thanks to the undeniable impact of their photographs than the media saturation and obsessive followers which have helped make AKB48 such a “national” institution.
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Shanghai has announced that thousands of diseased pig carcasses dumped in one of the city’s rivers will “have no impact” on water quality there – sadly an all too believable proclamation…
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A Chinese gaming event which tried to win a Guinness record for most maids by gathering 300 of them together has been attracting attention for the quality of the maids it ended up gathering – after managing barely a hundred volunteers, it had to resort to maid-to-order tactics to make up its final total of 265.
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Shoppers in a Chinese department store have been injured by an exploding shark tank, which spewed water, glass and sharks onto hapless shoppers, injuring over a dozen onlookers and staff.
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China has in recent days been convulsed by violent hatred of all things Japanese, with mobs forming in cities throughout China in order to loot and burn anything associated with Japan and its refusal to concede the Senkaku islands to China.
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A wave of attacks on Japanese interests in China now extend to assaults on random innocents, prompting much disquiet amongst Japanese, although no protest from their notoriously assertive government.
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Revealingly dressed passengers on the Shanghai subway controversially warned to cover up as they were asking for it seem to have responded by dressing all the more provocatively.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: International, News
- Date: May 25, 2012 18:23 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, China, Crime, Internet, Medical, Police, Rape, Shanghai, Teachers

Chinese are outraged at the case of a teacher who punished a 3-year-old girl for not playing with other children by forcing her seed into her and leaving it there for days.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: May 11, 2012 02:41 JST
- Tags: Censorship, China, Courts, Litigation, Politics, PS3, Shanghai, Square Enix, Xbox 360

Square Enix is reportedly being sued in China for publishing a game which allows the player to kill Chinese, and which damages the image of that great nation by most unfairly depicting Shanghai as a squalid hotbed of criminality.
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Thieves who stole a 17.5m long stone bridge one night have finally been arrested, although they sold the bridge on before it could be recovered.
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A Sankaku Complex reader back from a recent trip to China happened to have taken his own pictures of the wonderful world of Chinese trains, and is kind enough to share his pictures.
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