Shanghai

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Snacks In The City

(Mustn’t make ‘taking the biscuit’ pun. Mustn’t make ‘taking the biscuit’ pun.) A new piece of concept art in Selfridge’s basement is really taking the biscuit. Arse. Fans of Sim City will be delighted to hear that the game has at last seemingly been released …

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Poems On The Underground: The Exchange Programme

It’s all gone a bit Suzy Wong in London lately; it seems the city has gone mental for the Oriental this February and London Underground has not been immune. As part of the China in London season, and as part of its 20th birthday celebrations, …

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Chinese Autumn Moon Festival

Everyone knows about Chinese New Year – when the novelty of Christmas and the western New Year wears off, along comes the feasting and lion dances and lucky red envelopes as well as a surge of interest in Chinese horoscopes. But there is far more …

The 10.45 Floater to Kings Cross

We love a good bit of technology here at Londonist even when we don’t quite know exactly how it works… iPods for example. How do you get so many tracks into such a small white box and then get so many small white boxes attached …

Our Wheel’s Bigger Than Your Wheel!

Olympic games…giant ferris wheel…it must be a story about London right? Well, you might want to shift your focus slightly to the east, as this story is actually about Shanghai’s plans to build their own giant wheel in time for the Beijing Olympics. According to …

China In Our Hands

Is there no limit to Ken Livingstone’s ambitions? Not content with simply running one of the largest and most important cities on Earth, he’s now conducting foreign policy as well. In an announcement timed to coincide with the Chinese New Year, Ken has announced that …