Well this is all over the blogs this morning. Google’s reviewing its China ops and will stop censoring google.cn search results - announced on the official Google blog, which is on blogspot, which is blocked in China…

Last week we took the office to see Avatar. Purely for research purposes of course. It’s a good movie in that it, helped by a very drafty Shanghai cinema, keeps the viewer engaged for 2.5 hours. Probably should have spent a bit of the budget on the story though rather than re-hashing Pocahontas. We saw the movie on the morning of its first day in Shanghai for RMB 45. Since then Shanghai has gone Avatar crazy. CCTV reported that the Imax cinema would increase its price to RMB 200 from RMB 150. However, following online outrage, the Imax…

The New South China Mall is the second largest mall in the world and largely empty. (It used to be the largest mall in the World until the Dubai Mall came on line. But it’s still the largest empty mall in the World.) PBS have made a haunting documentary short about the mall that is well worth a look.