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Kenneth Tan

  • Name: Kenneth Tan
  • Location: Shanghai, China
  • Job: Editor
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Hong Kong emerges as centre of Asian art

Via AFP: " Traditionally known as a centre of banking and finance, Hong Kong is fast emerging as a centre of the Asian art world. And with stock markets in turmoil, investors are increasingly looking at art."... continue reading on Shanghaiist

Bo Guagua graduates from Harvard Bo Guagua graduates from Harvard

[via] Bo Guagua, son of former Chongqing chief Bo Xilai and lawyer Gu Kailai, graduated from Harvard yesterday without his parents by his side. From Reuters:Bo... wore a black cap and gown with crimson hood when he accepted his diploma at a commencement ceremony in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He flashed... continue reading on Shanghaiist

Watch: Chen Guangcheng speaks to CNN's Andersoon Cooper

Blind activist and self-taught lawyer Chen Guangcheng gives his first in-depth television interview to Anderson Cooper."... continue reading on Shanghaiist

Couple knocks over elderly woman, then buries her alive Couple knocks over elderly woman, then buries her alive

The couple abandoned this Santana 300m away from where they buried the elderly woman. A young Chinese couple has been arrested by local police in Liupanshui, Guizhou for knocking over a 68-year-old woman in Yuyao, Zhejiang with their car, and then burying her alive when they thought she was... continue reading on Shanghaiist

TIME Magazine's Bo Xilai issue seized and confiscated TIME Magazine's Bo Xilai issue seized and confiscated

TIME's Beijing bureau received a note this week from the customs department that 62 copies of its May 14, 2012 issue entitled The People’s Republic of Scandal were being "safeguided by customs" to be "dealt with". Read Hannah Beech's account of their fruitless attempts to get their magazines back:My... continue reading on Shanghaiist

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