coming up: who is wang jing? the man behind the canal project goes center stage. >> the date is july 7, 2014. on stage is the chinese billionaire behind the ambitious nicaraguan canal project. he speaks through an interpreter, but his message is clear. this video- posted on you tube - shows what the canal will look like -- with ships entering from the pacific coast, making their way into the brito locks. these locks are similar to the ones techknow saw under construction in panama's new canal locks, complete with basins to capture and conserve water. techknow has come to nicaragua to learn more about the plan. we visited the same area portrayed in the animation. there's plenty of politics. our focus is the science. >> it is right here where i'm standing the proposed nicaragua canal would begin. to the engineers constructing it most importantly it's really low easy to get to. the only issue for biologists is the forest right next to it is incredibly unique. >> so these mangroves protect the coast. >> these mangrov

. >> on the streets of shong high, we met chen yinge and wang jing. their nick names. >> ellen. >> that's nice and your name? >> my name is jean. >> zhou peng goes by vic. >> why do you have an english name? everyone has one at work, he told us. but many nicknames do not exactly translate well to native english speakers. we've met a girl named king and at starbucks a ghost and a right as in mr. right. >> a lot of expats and international restaurants around. >> reporter: lindsay jernigan was introduced to the phenomenon when she moved from washington, d.c. to shanghai and started meeting people. >> and their names were boat, yo-yo, 11, apple and there are normal once that didn't fit like edison, eddy for short. these names? >> at first i was sort of confused. i was more curious. why is this your english name. >> reporter: in all of this, the 26-year-old jernigan saw an opportunity and launched a website to help chinese find an english name. >> here we have the name. we have the origin, meaning. our target audience is really 18 to abobo 30. it's people

. >> on the streets of shanghai, we met chen yinge and wang jing. their nicknames? >> ellen. >> that's nice and your name? >> my name i ijean. >> zhou pepe goes by vic. >> why do you have an english name? everyone has one at work, he told us. but many nicknames do not exactly translate well to native english speakers. we've met a girl named king and at starbucks a ghost and a right as in mr. right. >> a lotf expats and a lot of different international restaurants around. >> reporter: lindsay jernigan was introduced to the phenomenon when she moved from washington, d.c. to shanghai and started meeting people. >> and their names were boat, normal ones that just didn't fit like edison, edi for short. >> what did you u ink of all >> at first i was sort of confused. i was more curious. why is this your english name? 26-year-old jernigan saw an opportunity and launched a website to help chinese find an english name. >> here we have the name. we have the origin, meaning. our target audience is really 18 to about 30. it's people that are kind of getting a little bit more se

(pkg) nats - (seth approaches people) on the streets of shanghai we met "chen yingke" and "wang jing" - their (sot - mos 4803)(ellen:) ellen (seth:) ellen - that's nice and you? (jean:) my name is jean "zhou peng" goes by "vic": (sot - mos 2 / 50:52) (seth:) why do you have an english name? (vic:) everyone has one... at work. (see nametags of these folks - including "ghost" @ starbucks) but manynynicknames" do not exactly translate well to native english speakers. we've met a girl named "king" and at starbucks: a "ghost" and a "right" -- as in "mister right"? (nats - walking shot - 8:35)(lindsay, walking:) i love shanghai - yeah, it's sort of home now.. american lindsay jernigan was introduced to this phenomenon when she moved from washington d-c to shanghai and started meeting people: (sot - sit-down - 0000039)(lindsay:) eleven, apple - and then there were normamaones that just didn't fit - like edison - eddie, for short. (sot - 02:46) (seth:) // what did you think of all these names? (lindsay:) // i was sort of confused / like why is this your english name? nats - showing website to