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Submitted by chaner on September 14, 2010 - 08:30

 

Laughter, delicious food, nice environment, free drink, lucky draw and more. Another Shenzhen Comedy Show is coming again this September! It would be the first time of this year to have this funny show, and you just can't miss it!

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Submitted by Cherry Ho on September 14, 2010 - 00:00

The Punchline Comedy Club is coming back this September 14th. Check out the ways below for your convenience to get the ticket.

Don't forget to have your tickets when going around these places.

Also, more venues for tickets will be announced soon!

 

1. Futian District

Club Viva

Address: Shopping Park No 140, Futian District.

Phone: 13798256176

 

McCawley's Futian

Address: Unit 151-152 North Of COCO PARK 138,Ming Tian Road,Futian (Facing Coco Park-Starbucks On Fu Hua Road)

Phone: 0755-2668 4496

 

Xpats Bar and Lounge

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It is estimated that by 2050 China will have 100 000 000 people over the age of 80. Can you imagine this, can you imagine how much this requires in terms of health care and medicine? This number of peole means that China will have as many people over 80 as Mexico has, and if these people were their own country it would be number 12, between Mexico with 108 million and the Phillipines with over 90 million. The disaster is looming in China.

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China in what can only be called a remarkable step backwards for humanity is fining people for having kids out of wedlock. Or at least that is what Chongqing China is doing. The chicoms dont state the reason, but it is pretty obvious. China has the one womb one child policy, which means each woman can only have one child. The man, however, can have as many as he wishes. The problem becomes that a woman who already has her one child quota becomes useless to a Chinese man as she can have no more kids and kids are what he wants most. Thus, a one-child woman is worth no more than dirt to them. In addition, by 2050 China will have over 100 million people aged 80 and above, and someone must care for them as the chicoms have no real social security net, and it is feared that illegitimate kids will be less productive and cannot give aid to the grandparents and parents.
The upshot is that in essence China is making the people decide whether to abort and kill the baby or pay the fine, it is China where money is king, which action do you thikn they will take…

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“According to a new regulation announced by Chongqing’s Family Planning Commission, married people who give birth out of wedlock will face a possible fine up to 250,000 yuan ($36,725), Chongqing Economic Times reported today. Among different unlawful acts of giving birth in this southwestern municipality, married people having babies outside marriage will be the most serious offense.

The lowest level of the fine, called the social compensation fee, is six times the city’s disposable personal income of the previous year, while the highest is nine times that of the previous year.

For example, if a couple gave birth in 2009 outside marriage, each of them would be required to pay 86,160 yuan (the 2008 disposable personal income of the city was 14,360 yuan) if their disposable income was lower than the previous year, 129,240 yuan each if it was higher.An unmarried couple who has a baby would be charged 6,000 yuan ($882) in social compensation fees.

The fees for extra births of married couples would be two to six times the disposable personal income of the previous year.

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Eight years ago, my band Chunqiu (Spring & Autumn) played at the Snow Mountain Music Festival in Lijiang. The day before the festival kicked off, we sound-checked at the venue, an alpine meadow 45 minutes by car above town. Then we shared a minibus back down to Lijiang with the band Brain Failure, one of China’s best-known Punk bands. At first there was a bit of awkwardness.

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According to the classic Marxist economic theory (which is the mostly taught economics in China), three factors are key for productivity: Capital, Labor and Land. Among them, according to Marx, the most important factor is labor. Following this logic, it would be hugely an evil for capitalist to pay labor low wage as they are taking away the productivity created by Labor instead of Capital. Above is an interesting chart to compare the Capital (millions RMB) to labor (number of workers) in China since 1991. Unsurprisingly, the Capital to Labor Ratio has continued to increase in the past 20 years, reflecting a fact that the increase of capital spending to Labor has been one of the contributing factors to the GDP growth in the past two decades. To explain the real world, maybe Marxist economists need to amend the theory from time to time.根据马克思主义经济学，生产力的提高主要受益于资本，劳动和土地的投入。在这其中，劳动力的投入最为重要，资本为辅。因此马克思认为，资本家如果仅给工人微薄的工资，是明目张胆的窃取工人创造的剩余价值，是丧尽天良的剥削。上图显示了在过去20年中中国资本投入和劳动力投入的比值。从图中可以看出，资本对劳动力的投入在过去20年不断增长，与同期的GDP增长相辅相成。资本和劳动，到底谁的贡献大，可能还远未到盖棺定论的时候。

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According to the data from CEIC and JP Morgan, China's minimum wage has been increased across the country. Among different areas, the minimum wage in Shanghai is the highest, exceeding 1100 RMB per month. To follow are some other Eastern regions such as Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong. The minimum wage in the West is relatively lower.根据JP Morgan一项研究表明，中国各地的最低工资有地域差别。全国最低工资最高的地区在上海，达到每个月1120元。浙江广东地区的最低工资也比较高。相比而言，西部一些地区的最低工资在700元左右，要比东部沿海低下一截。

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Milk suspected in sickening Chinese kindergarten children. What is up wtih the Chinese and milk products? And is it true that in the west we actually import this crap from them?

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“LANZHOU – Authorities said Saturday that 87 children, rather than 83 stated earlier, had fallen ill at a kindergarten in northwest China’s Gansu province on Friday.

A panel of experts said yesterday the illness could be related to yogurt served at the Lantai Kindergarten in Lanzhou, the provincial capital.

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Intellectual property minister Wilcox and the president of the National Copyright Administration of China (NCAC) Liu Binjie signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoA) on Copyright, read more on the UK Central Office of Information site here.

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Uncreative Brand In Yangshuo, next to Guilin, Guangxi province, you can see one of the most characteristic mountains of China. But if you bike through the village, you will notice some interesting shops as well. Almost next to each other you can see a shop that embodies the old copycat mentality and one that characterises the new creative brandbuilding mentality. adivon, easily recognised as a blatant adidas clone, has some remarkable things to say on its corporate website about branding and trademarks: "The company has always adhered to the marketing philosophy of human-oriented and loyalty-led and been upright and creditable. We are competing for first place in the industry and targeting for gold medal in the market as we are to create it into a Chinese famous trademark and international famous brand." See here.

It even has a webpage dedicated to "brand honor" which shows eight certificates including
- From 2008 the annual message trust the quality of the top ten brands";

- 500 Chinese brands - Top Ten China Industry Brand Campaign - Famous brand products in Fujian Creative Brand But only a few shops to the right one will find one of the most creative and esthetical Chinese brands I have ever seen: Mulinsen, a shoe brand, that wants to have a green image (the question is whether this is justified, since the shoe industry is a rather polluting industry with a big water footprint, read here) is of course because of the characters used. Mu 木 means tree; lin 林 means forest and sen 森 means many trees. So all characters amplify each other, sort of alliteration with Chinese characters, and then the logo with four times the character 木 (or two times 林) is a very distinctive mark.
Mulinsen is also: - Fujian famous brand - Chinese famous brand Photos/text Danny Friedmann

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Stan Abrams (China Hearsay), Chris Bailey (Rouse), Xie Lin (CUHK) and I gave presentations about the impact of Social Media on intellectual property (and vice versa). My presentation focused on social media and trademark law. In this presentation I tried to shed light upon the challenges trademark holders are facing in these times of social media. With the solutions I propose I hope I can start a discussion about a more proactive role for trademark holders. Your feedback is welcome (ipdragon at gmail dot com) Danny
How social media challenge the brandscape for trademark holders

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Annoyed with our failure of a trip to Saint Tropez, Chris was adamant we go to the nearby seaside town of Cassis, which was one of the recommended must-go places by our French friends. Cassis is actually an ancient fishing port by the ocean, but was rebuilt on the old ruins in the 18th century, resulting in a more regular layout than most other medieval villages. However, there are still old buildings that you can see when you wander around the narrow alleys, and they're beautiful. The harbour is the gem of Cassis. It's set beautifully against the high white limestone cliffs and is relaxed, chilled and fairytale-like.. very different to the hustle and bustle of Marseilles. We really adored Cassis because of the atmosphere and the feeling of peacefulness and security there.

The beautiful town of Cassis

We were lucky that there was a little outdoor market whilst we were in Cassis. HURRAY for little markets!! *glee* So of course we poked around in there.. or rather, I did, whilst Chris videoed me ;)

Poking around in their outdoor markets

Chris video-ing me puttering around the markets, lol

Bought a cute little orange bracelet!

After pottering around the little alleys and nooks and crannies, we headed down to the Port. It's formed in an arc, with cafes dotted all along it. It was so relaxing soaking in the sunset and wandering along the harbour, before settling into a random little cafe for some crepes. The crepes were nowhere near as good as the crepes we had in Paris, but still decent and at least it gave us a chance to sit out by the harbour and enjoy the views and people-watch.

Lots of narrow alleyways housing lil cafes and shops

Walkng down to the port area

The beautiful port of Cassis

I like this pic :)

Cassis port area

Street performers, they were GOOD

Video of the performers

Sitting down to enjoy the sunset and have a meal

CREPE TIME!

Vanilla milkshake + fries = awesome

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Yep, I've got a weakness for Indian painting, and eye burfi (burfi being a type of Indian candy) serves it up sweet. Just a couple of randomly selected images here, but if you go to the site, there's a lot more, both ancient and modern.

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In Chongqing China which is considered to be the world’s biggest city, by those in the know (there is an argument regarding how to classify it, city state etc), the annual disposable income, which means money after taxes and that you can use to purchase things, was
14,360 yuan (or about 2050 U$ per year!) That equates to less than U$200 per month per person.

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This is a photo depicting what will be the demise of China. Look at the air, it is filled with a black smoggy haze. This appears to be a storm or nightfall, but is actually a photo of about ten am in Beijing China. The pollution was so bad on this day that it felt as if I were suffocating.
The pollution here is incredible and causes a little less than a million deaths a year.

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Here is a shot from a pretty good website. The guy saw this old lady holding a bottle for her kid to piss in , instead of getting off her lazy ass to take him to the toilet.
I am kind of pissed myself. Today as I exited the subway I saw a guy take his kid over to the corner of the subway station, inside, not 5 feet from a pay toilet, and drop the kids pants so he could pee in a cardboard box for trash. The sanitary conditions in China are excellent….

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© Stas KuleshThe China Law Blog had a good piece recently on how the labor scene in China is changing. It's not really an in-depth analysis; it's more of a statement of the simple facts... A clear statement of the facts on labor in China seems necessary because China's labor scene really is changing. The stereotype of a huge Yellow Horde of cheap and abundant labor is still around as a stereotype - but it hasn't been true for a while now. ...

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For those of you who were hoping to join in on this year's TEDxShanghai but for some reason couldn't make the actual event, they're taking a page out of last year's playbook and streaming everything on Tudou.

TED conferences are "famed intellectual destinations for 'Ideas Worth Spreading' through high quality influencer speech videos." Basically, people in the know give lectures that might help you better understand some topic that coverges on the three topics of "technology, entertainment and design."

As for the livestream, say the organizers:
This coming Sunday 9/5 from 10:00-18:00 Tudou will be live streaming TEDxShanghai event on http://www.tudou.com/home/tedxshanghai2010 The theme is “10,000 Hours” - referring to a rough number needed for someone to develop strongly one’s skill / profession. Very interesting mix of 10+ speakers. In the “Unleashing the Creativity of Young Chinese Animators” topic, Tudou will also be presenting a few brilliant animations and inviting two young animators joining us on site around 16:30 on the day.

So, like, check it out tomorrow.

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One of my friends has a small trading company in Hong Kong. Thanks to his network contacts, he got some steady orders from large institution such as the French police forces and some mail order companies.

Most of his customers don’t have any product knowledge. All they do is choose a sample, the color, and the sizes. They are focused on the labeling and the packing though, because that’s what might make their lives difficult.

The deal is simple: “here is an idea of what we want, we need you to deliver the goods in our warehouse”. They don’t want any question about the fabrics to use or the stitching job. It wastes their time, and they don’t even know how to respond.

So the intermediary’s job is to use his own common sense and take all the decisions. That’s why they want to work with a salesperson from their own country. It saves them headaches.

The problem is, one day a bad decision will be made. How can the intermediary guess everything right, from his external point of view? And in that case, arguments can quickly escalate. The intermediary says “but you never said you didn’t want this”, and the buyer says “it is obvious, how can you get it wrong?”

The solution for working smoothly with that type of customers is probably to develop a good personal relationship. It often comes down to paying nice dinners and putting girls in the purchaser’s bed. Business is business, they say…