Guangdong confirmed its bid for the 2020 World Expo, China Daily says. ChinaSmack has translated a bunch of comment reaction from NetEase. They range from the ecstatic:

"Might as well apply to just host it forever! Let every city enjoy the World Expo to their heart’s content! World Expo for everyone!"

Hmm...or is that just dripping sarcasm?

To the not-so-ecstatic:

"Yet another money-wasting project. The moment [the bid] succeeds, Guangzhou will once again become a construction site. Please stop it, the Asian Games is enough."

With some Shanghai-based schadenfreude tossed in:

"Any expo is fine, as long as it isn’t held at Shanghai. One World Expo is painful enough"

A riveting crime feature in Global Times yesterday: Some guy is heading to the clink for three months after getting drunk and being an asshole at Expo.

Earlier this month, Mr Cui, who is a 54-year-old driver and studied in Japan as a youth, had three beers in the Latvia Pavilion and six in Germany Pavilion. The trouble started outside Spain Pavilion when he got rowdy and claimed he'd been invited to personally by the Spanish prime minister.

This is the first public disorder case related to the Expo to be brought to trial, Global Times reports.

Hundreds of thousands of visitors a day and only one drunk hooligan? Astonishing figures...

Clearly your best source of unbiased environmental information:

While books like this one investigate Tibetan glacial melting, inner-Mongolian desertification and poisoned rivers, Telegraph foreign editor Adrian Michaels knows better. He's been to Expo:

"Any visitor to the World Expo in Shanghai this year can testify, this picture is wholly misleading. China’s corporations, of course with the overt and tacit backing of the one-party state, fully understand the need to transform our methods of energy production."

Ah yes, I can think of another company that told the world it understood the need to transform energy production...

Donald Trump must've let her off the leash: Miss USA Rima Fakih popped over to Shanghai for a kip at the Ritz (guess who's flack forwarded the photos...). Fakih was in town for 4th of July shenanigans at Expo.

Yes in America, we still have beauty pageants. It's just now they're primarily vehicles for scandal fodder that keep Donal Trump's name in headlines (see here and here). Fakih appears to have a better track record than her predecessors, but a few racy photos are practically prerequisite to the crown these days...

Spanish pavilion brings Marco Moran, a young chef from Asturias region (Northern Spain), offering a chance to witness his latest creations and new cooking techniques.

From July Urban Promos

You are researching new cooking techniques, one of which is called ‘trash-cooking’, can you elaborate?

Trashing cooking, in general, means taking the leftover scraps of fish and vegetables and turning them into high-level cuisine. Food waste has become a growing problem for the environment and the cost of disposing of the waste is rising all the time, so by being creative when it comes to throwing out food, it’s possible to help the ecosystem and the wallet. That’s the idea behind this concept.