"Fog or smog? For years, China’s meteorologists have been telling the country’s urban residents that what looks and smells suspiciously like that latter is, in fact, just the former.
"Case in point: A thick grey cloud currently enveloping northern China that has closed highways across multiple provinces and caused more than 300 flights into Beijing to be delayed or cancelled. While state media have described the cloud as a 'heavy fog,' millions of posts on popular Chinese microblogging service Sina Weibo and other Internet sites are treating it as something else.
(3) Tom Orlik, Ominous Ordos: Dispatch from a Chinese Ghost Town. China Real Times, Dec 5, 2011 http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealti ... chinese-ghost-town/
("Reports in the local press that property prices in the eeriest of China’s ghost towns had fallen 70% had China Real Time Report on the next plane out there. We found little evidence of a collapse in prices yet. But with sales volume sharply down that could be just around the corner")
(4) Yoree Koh, Yamaha Lines Up Gold Golf Clubs for China. Japan Real Times, Dec 5, 2011 http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealti ... lf-clubs-for-china/
("Yamaha Corp. plans to sell made-for-China gold-painted golf clubs with a price tag that is nearly double the most expensive golf clubs it sells in Japan. The golf gear, musical instrument and audio equipment maker said a driver and iron club set costing Y1.3 million, about $16,500, will hit Beijing store shelves by the end of the year")