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Brazil thrashed China 4-0 in the Women's Football World Cup yesterday and it seems that Huang Jiangxiang has lost his title of being the world's most annoying football commentator. Hat tip to the Shanghaiist.

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The last two intakes I’ve done the “bike talk” - where we tell the newly-arrived foreigners about riding bikes in Tianjin. Here’s what I sent to their e-mails after we had lunch. It’s mostly bike ownership and safety stuff, meant to keep them alive long enough to learn the rules of the road (Tianjin’s traffic culture is more easily “caught” than “taught”).

Beijing, Shanghai and Tianjin recently unveiled their own versions of trading exchanges that will facilitate trades in pollution credits, with a fair share of overlapping activities. None of the exchanges have commenced operations yet. How will these exchanges coexist, cooperate or compete? This blog post takes a closer look at the proposed Beijing and Tianjin exchanges.

China's national men's football players check into a hotel with girls (maybe prostitutes or female fans) during the Olympics, angering fans already upset with their poor performance and behavior. Includes pictures and Chinese netizen comments.

A report has found that the standard of Chinese teaching in Australian high schools is ineffectual, with 94 per cent of final year students being 'first language' speakers.

Our first impression of Tianjin traffic as newly-arrived language students.

"According to informed sources in Henan, there was a large-scale student riot late night on June 15th at the Shengda Institute of Business Management of the Zhengzhou University located in Xinzheng city.

At its worst, almost 10,000 people were rioting. The students destroyed the university facilities and then marched onto the streets to vandalize street lamps and telephone booths, and they looted banks, supermarkets and electronic stores.

Excited to the point of death? Over soccer, er, "football?" Whoa.

The Shaanxi provincial government issues rules dictating what nannies and domestic help can wear/do. Chinese suspect the rules fear nannies becoming mistresses.