Arts & Entertainment Thumb-Sized Monkeys New Status Symbol Pets For Year Of The Monkey? Our colleagues at Shanghaiist just posted about this adorable but slightly alarming trend among elites in China of buying tiny pygmy marmosets, the world's smallest monkeys, to keep as pets in honor of
SF News Trump Vows To Force Apple To Manufacture Things In U.S. As the man who would be President, Donald Trump, continues to spout generalizations and make blanket promises that a certain segment of Americans want to hear, he has a new one aimed at
SF News Uber Makes Statement Opposing Basic Human Right Of Public Assembly "Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association." — The United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights “We firmly oppose any form of gathering or protest." — Uber Guess there's one thing
SF News New Birth Tourism Industry Grows For Expectant Chinese Moms A crop of "maternity homes" have been springing up around the Bay Area, providing housing, food, and transportation for pregnant Chinese and Taiwanese nationals, and guaranteed U.S. citizenship for their newborns, all
SF News Ed Lee's Name Floated As Potential Ambassador To China Mayor Ed Lee is now rumored to be a possible candidate to replace outgoing U.S. ambassador to China Gary Locke, who just announced his resignation. Locke's resignation was apparently unexpected, and just
SF News Gov. Brown Announces $1.5 Billion Chinese Investment For Oakland's Waterfront From the American Embassy in Beijing today, Governor Jerry Brown announced a $1.5 billion deal from a Chinese investment group to fund development of Oakland's 65-acre Brooklyn Basin project. The project sits
SF News 'Made In San Francisco' Label Starts Showing Up in China A new label being embraced by local manufacturers trying to break into the Chinese market shows how the Chinese may be gaining appreciation for American goods, and those from S.F. in particular.
SF News Chinese Teen Sells Kidney For An iPad Setting aside for a moment that Chinese workers may or may not be getting mistreated and overworked so that you can have your iPads and iPhones, we bring you this heart-warming tale of
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, In China... Gavin Newsom Has His Picture Taken From Beijing's picturesque Tianamen Gate, former Mayor Gavin Newsom unenthusiastically tweets to his followers back home in California: "the perfunctory tourist photo in Beijing..." the perfunctory tourist photo in Beijing... lockerz.com/s/
SF News Rick Santorum: Loves America But Invests In Outsourcing Firms In what's proving to be a race to the bottom for the current crop of GOP candidates, Rick Santorum—whose "Made In America" platform plan would prune corporate income taxes on manufacturing companies
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Behold The Temporary In-N-Out In Shanghai For a one-day tasting event (known to the horrific as a "pop-up"), In-N-Out, arguably California's best purveyors of hamburgers, opened a stand in Shanghai. As Serious Eats notes, "The menu at the tasting
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink California Winemakers Pushing Booze On Unsuspecting Chinese Middle Class Over in China, the Wine Institute, an association of California wineries, is using the Golden State's effortlessly cool image to sell mid-range wine abroad. As the Santa Rosa Press Democrat reports, the Wine
SF News Chinese Android Store Mocks Steve Jobs' Death Via our sister site Shanghaiist, this poster was found outside an Android store (possibly a fake/imitation store or open source OS) in Sichuan, China. The poster reads, "Steve Jobs has kicked the
SF News China Trying to Control S.F. Election, Says Aaron Peskin In crazy-guy-on-the-bus news, Aaron Peskin--former Board of Supervisors President and scribe of a 37-page letter to the Ethics Commission claiming shenanigans in Progress for All’s Ed Lee mayoral campaign--gave an interview to
SF News The Chinese Are Totally Building Knock-Off Apple Stores Now This seems totally inevitable, but the country that brought you many millions of knockoff Louis Vuitton purses and fake Rolex watches now features multiple fake Apple Stores. As the AP reports today, the
SF News Schwarzenegger Visits China, Looks at Bridge Section, Sells Pistachios Where has Gov. Schwarzenegger been during the San Bruno fire disaster, you ask? In China! The former movie star cum California politico headed East to sign part of the East Span of the
SF News Gavin, DiFi, 78 Others Kick Off China Tour An 80-person entourage including Newsom, former mayors Willie Brown and Frank Jordan, Nancy Pelosi, Di Fi, and BART board of directors president James Fang, begins a tour of China today in celebration of
SF News An Average Year for Earthquakes? There have been six large earthquakes so far in 2010, including Haiti, Chile, last week's 7.7 magnitude quake off Sumatra, and Tuesday's devastating quake in western China. Seems like a lot, no?
SF News Google Likely to Cancel Operations in China by Amy Crocker According to the Wall Street Journal, it's increasingly likely that Mountain View-based Google will cancel operations in China as negotiations with the government over censorship stall. There's a lot of
SF News Apple Suppliers Using Underage Labor? Here's something to think about the next time you want to post your next iPhone rant on Twitter: "Apple products are made in factories that regularly employ young teenagers, constantly work people more
SF News Google To Pull Out Of China? by Amy Crocker Google has threatened to pull out of China after massive cyber attacks against itself and other foreign companies. If it doesn't walk away entirely, Google has said it will stop
SF News Ming Dynasty War Ship Sunk Hours from Destination Some of you may recall the replica of a 17th Century Chinese war junk that toured through San Francisco last fall. It was called the Princess Taiping and its mission was to complete
SF News Australians, Hong Kong-ians Panic About Incoming Swine Flu From San Francisco The insane worldwide panic preceding a potential (though unlikely?) worldwide pandemic of swine flu reached new heights today, with Australian flights from California being screened before deplaning and a woman in Hong Kong
SF News Images: Pro-Tibet Protest, 3/10 Yesterday in San Francisco, a free Tibet protest march was held, ending at the Chinese consulate. The protest marked the 50th anniversary of the failed uprising that sent the Dalai Lama into exile.
SF News All that Olympic Torch Brouhaha Pays Off, Newsom Launches ChinaSF Team Newsom recently kicked off a nightclub-sounding economic development initiative called ChinaSF. The "public/private" partnership will help connect businesses in China to San Francisco and the Bay Area, helping cash-rich Chinese companies
