The International PEN, champion of freedom expression and writers in peril around the world, is calling on President Hu Jintao to release 40 jailed writers and journalists in advance of ... Read More

London-based Tibet Watch said on Monday China had started building police stations close to, or even in, monasteries, limiting the number of monks or nuns and making them take exams ... Read More

Counterfeit stories emerge from China every week, but usually it's about illegal vendors hawking cheaply copied DVDs or Prada bags. Apparently, even museums can be duped. Here's a story about ... Read More

China's annual consumer price inflation hit an 11-year high in November, with new signs that price pressures are spreading from food to the broader economy, raising the prospect of more ... Read More

Xinhua captures images of Beijing's first snowfall of the year. (Curiously, the first pictures in the sequence were apparently captured by an intern using a cameraphone from the office window, to ... Read More

The Wall Street Journal rather humorous article commenting on the mysterious fact that not one of the members of the Politburo Standing Committee, even 81 year-old former Chinese President, Jiang ... Read More

What's Hot in China Today describes a rather unusual beauty trend. Eat Worms to Look Pretty: Thanks to this new trend, some of the Yunnanese restaurants in Beijing are packed ... Read More

A Chinese ad campaign that will probably never see the light of day A Guangzhou-based Chinese ad agency has conceived a daring (and brilliant) campaign to shock people into caring about ... Read More

What's Hot in China has a ranking of the top 10 Chinese universities by average starting salary with a somewhat startling upset: Beijing and Tsinghua (the Harvard and Yale or ... Read More