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China’s pyjamas police fight Shanghai’s daytime love of nightwear
A local community in Shanghai has set its sights on one of urban China’s most intractable social problems: the wearing of pyjamas in public.

The neighbourhood committee – a volunteer outpost of the Communist Party – in the city’s north-eastern district of Rixin has decided that wearing pyjamas in the street should be discouraged.”We’re telling people not to wear pyjamas in the street because it looks very uncivilised,” Guo Xilin, a local official, was quoted in local media as saying.In contrast to their leaders’ formal appearance at official functions, China boasts some of the most laid-back dressers in the world.Partly as a result of living at close quarters in city alleyways, especially since Chairman Mao flooded the rich suburbs with the rural poor, privacy is at a premium and inhibitions are loosened.In Shanghai, in particular, it is regarded as socially undesirable to make social visits without appointments in summer, in case the family is lounging around in their underwear to keep the heat at bay. But, wearing pyjamas to pop down to the shops or to communal loos hardly raises an eyebrow.As China has become richer, the practice has only become more common: having a smart pair of pyjamas shows you can afford not to have to sleep in long-johns and string vests.The Rixin decision has divided the locals. While Mr Guo called pyjamas “visual pollution”, one elderly resident was quoted as saying: “Pyjamas are also a type of clothes. It’s comfortable, and it’s no big deal.”Shanghai may, of course, just be trying to keep up with its great rival, Beijing. The capital’s Spiritual Civilisation Committee issued scores of edicts in advance of the Olympics governing citizens’ behaviour, ranging from instructions on how to queue, apply make-up and comb your hair, to detailed advice on clothing.Its guidelines were particularly critical of men who wore white socks with black shoes, but also weighed in on the subject of both pyjamas and the other great fashion faux pas – the male trouser leg rolled up to the knee to cool off.

Telegraph.co.uk

Millionaire mistook two-finger gesture

Dressed as police, four knife-wielding men from Jixian, a county in Shanxi province, broke into a millionaire’s home with the intention of robbing him of two million yuan ($285,660). But, the robbers got 10 million yuan after the man misread the robber’s gesture of two fingers as 20 million. Wang bargained with the robbers for half the sum, fearing they would harm him and his family. The robbery is the biggest ever reported in Shanxi. The robbers were captured last month, and the money has been recovered.

Chinese Business Morning View

Don’t hire this guy if you want a good deal…

Where’s my mouth?
A restaurant where diners eat in complete darkness to experience blindness recently opened in Chengdu, Sichuan. Diners are led into the 700-square-meter restaurant in Dongdajie by waiters wearing night vision equipment. Eating in the dark, diners, most of whom are young people curious about the restaurant, have to eat bread, salad and rice fried with chicken with their hands. After they finish their meal and leave, as they adapt to the light outside the restaurant they may find their faces covered with food.

China Daily

Mistress makes the most out of philanderer’s IOU
Xi, the manger of a company in Dongying, Shandong province, wrote an IOU for 100,000 yuan ($13,700) for his mistress, surnamed Pang, as a demonstration of his desire to divorce his wife and marry her instead. After he failed to divorce his wife, however, his relations with Pang soured. Enraged, Pang brought Xi and his wife Sun to court, asking them to hand over the promised sum. Last Thursday, the court ruled in Pang’s favor, ordering Xi to honor the IOU as there was no reason to believe it was invalid.

Qilu Evening News

That’ll teach him a lesson. Or two.

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