Check out City Weekend’s writeup on organic farms around Beijing here and Pangbianr’s map of spots, which we’ve replicated in small-form below:

Via the pangbianr newsletter.

From CNN:

Five years later, when her son discussed his sexuality on local television in the southern metropolis of Guangzhou, Wu made another groundbreaking decision. She became what state media calls the first Chinese parent to go on television in support of her gay child.

Original article here.

From the China IWOM Blog:

On September 9^th, Mercedes-Benz Smart launched a flash sales tuan gou on Taobao that generated sales of 205 cars in three and a half hours. The impact of the buzz can be seen in the fact that 18% of all tuan gou buzz on that day was about this event.…

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From Engadget:

China just passed the US and the world with the reveal of the world’s fastest supercomputer. The fully operational Tianhe-1A, located at the National Supercomputer Center in Tianjin, scored 2.507 petaflops as measured by the LINPACK benchmark. That moves it past Cray’s 2.3 petaflops Jaguar located at Oak Ridge National Lab in Tennessee. Tianhe-1A achieved…

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Excerpts from ITworld article:

Youku, China’s largest video hosting site, has partnered with Disney to begin streaming the studio’s TV shows, said the company’s CEO Victor Koo.

Last month, one of Youku’s competitors, Ku6 Media, signed a content deal with Sony Pictures Television and Warner Bros. to provide the broadcasting rights for several hundred films…

Continue readingRampant piracy causes technology to accelerate once again…

A fashion line from Shanghai-based indie fashion label “JL.”

From the adverts below, the choices of haircut, posture and backdrop are the most interesting parts.

Via NeoChaEDGE.

Appealing? I think not.

What’s missing?

For example…

Action:

The Chinese premier, Wen Jinbao, did not deign to attend the meetings personally, instead sending a second-tier official in the country’s foreign ministry to sit opposite Obama himself. The diplomatic snub was obvious and brutal, as was the practical implication: several times during the session, the world’s most powerful heads of state were forced to wait around…

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The Economic Observer has put together a great collection of reactions to the Gates & Buffett charity banquet, which gives us a great look on what Chinese people think about American philanthropy. I’ve quoted my favorite below:

The Economic Observer’s Editorial Board discussed the structural and legal barriers to charity:

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