Shanghai 13 Story Building Collapse – China News

15 years ago, the toughest part of getting a taxi in Beijing was finding a driver who was awake. The Chinese capital was much slower paced then, and cabbies would often follow up their lunch with a one or two hour siesta. The hours of 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. were a taxi wasteland, unless you were willing to risk waking a snoozing driver.

In the same way the tastes of many Chinese wine drinkers have progressed from inexpensive domestic plonk to high-priced imports, beer drinkers in China are becoming more receptive to the craft beer movement that has swept through North America and Europe over the last 30 years.

Not long after the midafternoon subway accident Tuesday in central Shanghai that left about 250 people injured, Shanghai Metro, the operator of Shanghai subway system, issued an apology on Sina Weibo, the popular micro blogging service. Then the posting was mysteriously deleted shortly afterwards, prompting discussion–and anger–among Weibo users.

Grant Cassell, trumpeter player with Beyond Sapphire, a Canadian band, was detained in China after border officials found some antique bullet shells in his luggage. His love of antiques got him into some big trouble in China, Grant says he was made to sit against the wall all day while in prison.