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colinshek

  1. Lunch with the FT: George RR Martin - FT.com ft.com/cms/s/2/bd1e26… The part about the turtles is fantastic.
  2. French Open: China's Li Na stays on the level after life-changing Paris victory gu.com/p/37q6x/tw
  3. Chinese fashion group has global designs - FT.com on.ft.com/K5AouL How much $$$ they pay to appear in Transformers 3?
  4. Great read RT @MalcolmMoore: My piece from Jingdezhen visiting Roger Law, creator of Spitting Image telegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/9245…
  5. Is Ed Westwick (of Gossip Girl) still making appearances in Shanghai this weekend? Asking on behalf of my wife.
  6. Amazing Q1 losses by PetroChina's natural gas division. In 3 months, it lost the roughly same as 50% of 2011's losses.
  7. Twiddling thumbs as China's GAC elects to send LNG import data to one subscriber at a time.
  8. @stevegerrard Thought you'd like to see these by Denmark. The framed one will greet guests at our party next month. twitter.com/colinshek/stat…
  9. @niubi Among other websites, "major legal site and the political website chinathinktank.cn"
  10. RT @goldkorn: Interview with Utopia co-founder Fan Jinggang bit.ly/IE7Mtn by Robert Foyle Hunwick
  11. Went to a jobs fair for foreigners in Shanghai today. @CRIbrk was there but unfortunately got its own name wrong. twitter.com/colinshek/stat…
  12. What chance now of a 3rd nuclear test by North Korea after the embarrassment of that failed rocket launch?
  13. After China's odd web outage yesterday, an awesome map of the world's submarine cables submarinecablemap.com CN has 5 connections
  14. Does Earth really need our protection? koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/natio… Absolute rubbish. Can't believe Mr Nho calls himself a journalist.
  15. Catching up on news that China's government has blocked discussion on the country's two largest microblog services for 3 days.