Matt Doyle

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• Posted Hey Farmer! "Grass Mud Horse!" to Shanghaiist
  The deviant little grass mud horse has struck again - only this time, it's a real alpaca rather than an internet one that's the center of this controversy. According to Forbes Asia, two Chinese men used an elaborate scam to trick an oblivious 74-year-old Tennessean Alpaca farmer into giving them business visas. In true Cao ni ma style, the two men got in touch with Wayne England through a third-party business contact, claiming to...
• Posted PSA: Need Work? Come to the 2010 Expo! to Shanghaiist
  The Shanghai 2010 Expo is looking for volunteers of all shapes, sizes, and nationalities, and if you're a soon-to-be college graduate, you're probably still looking for a job. According to Xinhua, the Expo is looking for 170,000 volunteers to act as interpreters, information advisors, and aides for the physically handicapped. The recruiting process begins May 1, and from what Xinhua is reporting, the requirements to work at the Expo are pretty low. Each volunteer...
• Posted Noel Gallagher's mind is like a burnt out Supernova; Barely remembers Tibet Concert to Shanghaiist
  You know that much hyped Oasis show that got canceled because of guitarist Noel Gallagher's opinion on Tibet? Well, in case you had any doubt, it seems like his opinion may have been a bit overstated. In a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal, Noel admitted that he did indeed play a Free Tibet concert twelve years ago with the likes of U2, Radiohead, and the "f—ing Beastie Boys," but that beyond that...
• Posted American students show love for 中文 to Shanghaiist
  The fourth annual "Chinese Bridge" US High School Student Chinese Speech Contest took place this past weekend at the University of Massachusetts. High school students from 21 states took participated in song, pronunciation, and dialogue events that were graded by a panel of Chinese language teachers and native speakers. Students with higher abilities were graded on individual speeches on self-selected topics. The American students opened the competition with a rousing rendition of "北京欢迎你," ("Beijing...
• Posted Suicide main cause of college deaths in Shanghai to Shanghaiist
  19 local college students took their lives last year, according to a Shanghai Education Commission study, one of the first of its kind to list the seven causes of death for college students. Suicide topped the list, followed by acute diseases (15 deaths), traffic accidents (12), fires (4), drowning (2), manslaughter (2), and sports accidents (1). To try and combat the number of suicides - which have only risen through the years - Shanghai...