TheSZWeb | Shenzhen News and Commentary

- Pest Control expert catches wasps, sells wasp wine

- Official plan is to rebuild 45 Urban Villages “within the year” meaning 80 million sq meters of new apartments. Offficials say this is to lower house prices… Urban villages house over 70% of the population of Shenzhen within the SEZ, who will be displaced and have to move to cheaper areas, meaning more people commuting into the city from the outer areas .

- 340 new HIV cases in SZ, bringing total reported to 2356; official figures put “heterosexual contact” as an infection cause of 33% of cases

- Doctors in one clinic in Songgang treat over 100 patients for Conjuntivitis every day for over a month

China

- Quality Standard put in place for mooncakes;  all mooncakes for 2007 already made

- over 1100 sq km of Pearl River Delta coastal land will be submerged by 2050 according to sea level rise estimates

Tags: china, news, shenzhen, wtf

- Woman falls off Zhuhai-Shenzhen ferry into sea. Ferry company says “woman committed suicide”. Witnesses say she fell off the second floor open deck, which has low railings. Ferry company says this deck is not open. Passengers comment you can go on the deck if you pay 20RMB.

- “residency” ID cards in Shenzhen to store name, address, ‘educational background’, ethnicity, and criminal record

-  ”Temporary Residents” account for about 85% of Shenzhen’s 13 million residents

China:

- Extinct river dolphin actually not extinct

- Great Wall being eroded to dust by sandstorms

Tags: china, news, shenzhen, wtf

- Man gives 3 million to girlfriend, who walks away with the money, to everyone’s surprise.

- Children given brochure to teach them how to surf the web. “This is Porn: do not look at it.”

- Children educated about AIDS. (But not about sex.)

- SZ Metro runs out of 1 Yuan coins and stops accepting 10 RMB notes.

- Man invites girl from his hometown to SZ. Keeps her in a room as a sex slave.

- Chinese euphoric at how great investors they are as index hits new high.

- 400kg of dead fish wash up at one beach in Shenzhen Bay after heavy rain; “because the water got diluted too much for them”, not because of polluted run-off of course

- Shenzhen man sues Intel after buying a CPU with no Chinese language manual

- Shangri-La Hotel makes 42m long 280kg mooncake.

CHINA:

- HK magazine ‘Phoenix Weekly’ estimates over 4000 Uygur children from Xinjiang have been abducted and are currently forced to steal in Chinese cities in organised pickpocket rings.

Tags: china, news, shenzhen, wtf

- SZ people will be able gamble upon, sorry, invest in the HK stock market too

- “Crackdown” on drunk driving; “so far more than 1900 traffic police have inspected some 2000 vehicles”… so, a really efficient crackdown there guys

- Restaurants fix weighing scales when selling food by weight (e.g. shark fin), providing in some cases only 70% of what is paid for. “The consumer council reminded consumers to check the scales before buying expensive food”

- Mother gives birth in front of supermarket while walking to hospital; baby falls on street; saved by passer-by; father’s whereabouts unknown

China:

- 3 separate cases of school kids dying after being left alone in closed schoolbuses in the last 4 months

- Charitable donors withdraw funds from student support programs because no one thanked them

- Men arrested for posting typhoon damage rumours on a website

Tags: china, news, shenzhen, wtf