Shanzai Nokia N9 has 7 OS interfaces, but most importantly it has Talking Tom & Stripping Games

Posted on by Tricia Wang

Excerpted from Bytes of China:

In the wonderful world of shanzai, we have a new competitor made with a Mediatek chip- a Nokia N9 knockoff, the Noka (诺卡) N9. The Noka N9 has 7 operating systems interfaces: Meego, iOS 5.0, HTC Sense, Windows Phone 7, BlackBerry, Smasung’s TouchWiz  and Symbian Anna.…

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Government edifice design in China

Posted on by Jason Li

LEAP has a great article by artist Bai Xiaoci (who is responsible for the photos above) on the architecture of government edifices in China. An excerpt:

As material manifestations of Chinese political principles, China’s city- and county-level government buildings have also developed their own architectural aesthetics. State-owned…

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Starting Up in Shenzhen

Highlights from the cutting edge of Chinese consumer electronics

Posted on by Jason Li

My picks from the Segbuy (赛格网), an online electronics marketplace with zero shipping fees and a seven-day buy-back guarantee. The online “trading platform” is run by the same company who own one of the famously large electronics malls in Shenzhen (the SEG Building 赛格广场).

Click on the images to go to the product page with more information.

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Launching high end men’s wear in HK and Singapore

Posted on by Jason Li

The Financial Times has a fun little round up of emerging high end men’s wear companies in Hong Kong and Singapore. Rather than summarizing the article (which mainly states that these firms are meeting a growing demand and trying to put their respective cities on the map), I’ve rounded up a representative sample of images from each company below.

Enjoy!…

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