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Watch out Pamplona, Dalian might be copying your controversial sport. Recently a bull escaped a local slaughterhouse and made its way to the city centre where it squared off against the city's traffic and pedestrians.

Before being rendered unconscious it was heard to have said that "Dalian is a clean and beautiful city".

The 2009 Summer Davos will be in Dalian, again, having had it's inaugural meeting in the city in 2007 and moving to Tianjin in 2008. Xinhua hint it will be in Dalian in the future. Is China's 'New Champion' (the sub title of the meeting) Dalian?

If you are (or know someone who is) a westerner living in Dalian, China, and you think that you would be interested in becoming a member of the cast, please respond to with a quick bio...

Dalian continues to attract high tech industries with a new announcement that Intel will be further investing 2.5 billion USD into facilities in the Liaoning port city.

That’s right. It was not an bureaucratic accident, China has been denying American Navy access to Hong Kong harbor as punishment for U.S. for arms sales to Taiwan at such a sensitive time in Taiwanese-Mainland relations and Bush awarding medals to the Dalia Lama for political reasons.

A boy in China's northeast city of Dalian has shocked his mother after she discovered he earned 100 yuan (US$13) for being a henchman to a rich classmate.

Asked why his classmate would want to hire an entourage, the boy was quoted as saying his schoolmate wanted to imitate "big bosses" such as his father or actors on television.

The story of "Lost Heart's" QQ homepage and the pictures of drugs, violence, and decadence in China's youth today, article and comments translated from Chinese.

Anyone who has spent time in the People’s Republic of China is obviously aware of the sheer number of hotels and sundry boardinghouses located in even the smallest city. What patronizing Western travelers frequently encounter at the front desk, however, is a sudden expulsion by the proprietor conveying in Chinese that NO FOREIGNERS ARE ALLOWED!

The man The Guardian describes as one of the worst players ever to appear for Manchester United has left the English giant and returned to his Chinese club Dalian Shide.