Piggies are everywhere. In Beijing I can hardly avoid them. They are on kitchen aprons and the comfy new slippers I just bought from Ikea. They are ... Read More

By now I'm sure you've heard of China's new mega-rich: the real estate magnates who buy whole floors of luxury highrises and outfit their bathrooms with solid gold toilet bowls ... Read More

A 35 year-old Chinese peasant and two accomplices have been arrested for murdering two women and selling their corpses as "ghost brides": wives for men who died single. In many parts ... Read More

Why Face is Everything Look almost anywhere in China today and you'll eaily see how developers are taking the American maxim "bigger is better" to illogical extremes. Build a dam ... Read More

EastSouthWestNorth translates Chinese media coverage of a pretty, former factory worker from a rural village who, dreaming of a better life, became a "kept mistress" in the big city. ... Read More

Sinosplice is a blog written by John, a graduate student in applied linguistics who has lived in China for 6 some odd years. Recently, he wrote about attending Pre-Cana - the ... Read More

Just to follow up on last week's post on Zhang Yi Mou's Curse of the Golden Flower... I still haven't seen the movie, but the more I read about it, ... Read More

Modeled on the popular user-generated encyclopedia, Wikipedia, Wikileaks.org is a new site that hopes to become an "international movement of people who facilitate ethical leaking and open government." The ... Read More

Time Magazine is running an article called "China Takes on the World" in its latest issue, whose cover features a bright, golden star rising from the Great Wall and the ... Read More

Chinese police have raided a terror camp operated by the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, a Uighur separatist group, killing 18 "terrorists." The Uighurs are a Turkic-speaking ethnic minority, most of whom ... Read More

A Xingbake, a Shanghai-based coffee chain, has been fined 500,000 yuan ($US 64,000) for infringing of the Starbucks trademark. - By Jennifer Brea, World News Guide

Joining Dublin, New York and other major cities across the world, as of January 1st, Hong Kong has banned smoking in most indoor public places, including "workplaces...restaurants, bars for all ... Read More

A series of carjackings gets a whole city's cabbies playing cops and robbers EastSouthWestNorth has translated (en) a China Youth Daily article (zh) about a woman taxi driver in Huludao City ... Read More

Curse of the Golden Flower, Zhang Yimou's latest bid for blockbuster megastardom (more another time on how the director of smaller, and ultimately more intelligent films, like Raise the Red ... Read More

The Shanghaiist reports that Guangzhou is about to become China's first "developed," city, as defined by the World Bank's measuring stick: $10,000 GDP per capita per year. Guangzhou, long ... Read More

To relieve transportation pressures in the city, to continue the positive social trend of restricting small vehicles, motorcycles, and electric bicycles, and in response to insistent requests by the greater ... Read More

I am a big fan of the internet site, Flickr, mainly because I can both share my own photos with the world and see photos taken by other members from ... Read More

Here's a less than rosy picture of China's attempts to institute democracy at the "grassroots." Hannah Beech, writing for Time magazine, tells the story of a suicide and some ... Read More

The Christian Science Monitor has a new article about how the growth of a Chinese middle class is starting to fuel domestic demand for consumer products. While in the ... Read More