SHANGHAI'S international Internet connections slowed significantly yesterday after earthquakes rocked Taiwan and southern Japan. It was unclear last night how long repairs might take.

Millions of Chinese Netizens were unable to connect to overseas Websites or use popular online chat tools yesterday afternoon.

Censure plus efficace que le Great Firewall of China : les câbles sous-marins en zone sismique. Tous les 3 ans ça pète.

In this series of pictures, the two photographers - father and son - present Shanghai between fiction and reality as the ‘city of tomorrow’. The focal point of their photographic work is the architecture of the city’s streets, a critical investigation and analysis encompassing the subject of urban landscape. In a long-term project begun in November 2002, they have been documenting the metropolis Shanghai as an urban composition, a man-made architectural living space and enviroment of unprecedented and unimaginably gigantic dimensions. The resulting images are of immense visual beauty.

大　阪 ←→ 上　海

1 seconde de film égale 15 minutes en temps réel.

Throwing six years into two suitcases at the moment.

I'll be back, from Bangkok, in a few days.

I'll avoid the crushing sentimentality that comes with such a move and just say thanks to all my friends, and to this great country. It's been a fascinating six -and-a-half years. I'll miss you, China. But that's for another time.

Le départ de Chine d'un chroniqueur gastronomique de référence (à Shanghai à notre époque en tout cas).

On the third floor of the Shanghai Urban Planning Museum, there is what probably is the world’s largest scale model of a city. The room-sized model of central Shanghai in 2020, as envisioned by the urban planners, fills an area larger than 100 square meters (1,000 square feet)

As we swerved around another pile of rubble and some pylons along Tianmu Rd. I asked him whether it was tougher to drive a tank in the army or to drive a cab in Shanghai ? He didn't hesitate: "driving a cab in Shanghai".

[...] and a sports bar called “Champions” Serving up Potato skins, Ribs, Buffalo Wings and other western crowd pleasers.

Je suis resté en admiration devant la maquette pour illustrer le projet (non réalisé) d'aménagement du nouveau quartier de Lu Jia Zui à Shanghai.