+China | May 27, 2007

Maglev Blues

By Simon Elegant

Interesting report by Xinhua, China’s national news agency, over the weekend. The story describes how the authorities have decided to suspend work on a $5 billion Maglev train that would have cut journey time between Shanghai and the lake resort city of Hangzhou to around half and hour. I currently takes more than two hours, [...]

+China | May 27, 2007

Oops

By Simon Elegant

Oops indeed. Just back from a trip in southern China, I see that, as several helpful readers have pointed out, my post a couple of days ago about the new adoption rules was, er, recycled, to put it politely. I had written it on a different computer and thought for some confused reason that it [...]