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China’s covert spy pad technology
January 6th, 2011 by Chaz
Chinese researchers have given new meaning to the term “watch your step” with a so-called “spy pad,” a device that can identify people by their gait, the South China Morning Post reported. According to a Wikileaks document released in December,…
Xiamen Wave January Edition Delayed
January 5th, 2011 by Chaz
Xiamen Wave would like to thank everyone who has supported us since our first printing back in August. Unfortunately, due to circumstances beyond our control, Xiamen Wave magazine has been forced to further delay our originally planned January release date….
Avatar-Themed Weddings Hit China
January 4th, 2011 by Chaz
Avatar, the billion-dollar blockbuster from writer/director James Cameron, has become somewhat of a cultural phenomenon. Its advanced use of 3-D technology notwithstanding, one of its most…odd effects on the populace is its ability to induce suicide. It seems several people,…
Expert Completes £4,000 Jigsaw Made of Banknotes
January 2nd, 2011 by Chaz
Liu Hui-fen, a Taiwanese justice ministry specialist, was presented with an almost impossible task when she was given a bag of 200 mutilated $1,000 bank notes that had inadvertently been dropped into a shredder. She pieced together all of the…
Largest Starbucks in China Opens in Xiamen
December 31st, 2010 by Chaz
Xiamen Wave has learned that Starbucks has finally opened its doors in the city of Xiamen. On December 30th, 2010, the flagship Starbucks store in Xiamen, located on Lujiang Dao in between Zhongshan Lu and the Wyndham Hotel, opened their…
Students in China Eating Roundworm Eggs to Aid in Employment
December 29th, 2010 by Chaz
Stressing about finding a job after graduating from college is common all around the world. Resumes are prepped, interview clothes are purchased, and, if you’re young women in the Chinese city of Xiamen, the regular consumption of roundworm eggs is…
China’s Real-Estate Frenzy
December 28th, 2010 by Chaz
Rising property prices and a torrid pace of lending are signals of an inflationary bubble. Last week I sold an apartment in Beijing for more than 2.5 times what I paid for it five years and three months ago. When…
Chinese Publishers Mistakenly Translate Grimm’s Tales Erotically
December 27th, 2010 by Chaz
Being lost in the translation is a state of being that can be humorous and also extremely embarrassing. Errors in syntax, which are known as “Chinglish,” can be unintentionally insulting as well. Consider signposts to Minority People Park that were…
As Christmas Eve becomes Christmas Day, services herald holiday
December 25th, 2010 by Chaz
As Christmas Eve became Christmas Day around the world, services and celebrations marked the holiday. At Vatican City on Friday night, Catholic worshippers packed pews inside St. Peter’s Basilica to hear Pope Benedict XVI deliver Midnight Mass. He prayed to…
Robot Waitresses Serve Food in China
December 23rd, 2010 by Chaz
The Dalu Robot Restaurant, in Jinan, northern China’s Shandong Province, has a very special wait staff indeed. All of the waitresses (six in total) are robots that follow a fixed route that can serve up to 100 diners. Developed by…