Officials expect 45,000 attendees to attend the fair, including a large number of international publishers who are returning after sitting out the event in recent years because of the pandemic. The fair will run November 17–19. ( read original story ...)
ONE Championship’s Meng Bo wants China title fight – or Zhang Weili rematch – as UFC confirms Shanghai return
MMA contender ‘expects’ ONE Championship to follow UFC in hosting event in China for first time since 2019 – and eyes ‘derby’ with strawweight queen Xiong Jingnan. ( read original story ...)
Halloween in Shanghai: dissent against Xi amid censorship and repression
Beijing (AsiaNews) – In Shanghai, young people dressed up in various costumes to celebrate Halloween under police surveillance, using this occasion to express dissent without crossing any fateful "red ... ( read original story ...)
China Eastern Airbus A330 Reconects Brisbane And Shanghai
The first flight departed Shanghai Pudong International (PVG) on Wednesday at 21:17 and after a 9:30-hour flight landed in Brisbane at 08:47 yesterday. The service was operated with a ten-year-old Airbus A330-200, registration B-5920 and MSN 1375 ... ( read original story ...)
Shanghai’s Halloween Party, a Rare Chance for Chinese to Vent in Style
But there were also walking memes, rare public expressions of queer life, wry commentary on the state of China and at least one bipedal vegetable — a colorful burst of pent-up energy and emotion in ... ( read original story ...)
Halloween revelers poke fun at China COVID curbs
STORY: Police were seen escorting the Halloween revelers dressed up as COVID-19 prevention workers protesting against China’s previously harsh zero-Covid regime.Reuters was able to confirm the location as Shanghai from the seating, ( read original story ...)
In Shanghai, Halloween Becomes an Occasion to Blow Off Steam
Several nights of Halloween celebration in Shanghai provided a vivid, if indirect, commentary this week on the malaise gripping the world’s second-largest economy.Nearly a year after protests roiled major Chinese cities in opposition to leader Xi Jinping’s stringent zero-Covid policies, ( read original story ...)