In The Spotlight: Wu & The Side Effects – Arts & Entertainment

Let's start with the good stuff. "Your virginity back in 20 minutes!"
"No surgery, no shots, no medicine, no side-effects. For a cool 100 yuan ($14.60) you can have your 'first time' back anytime!"

It wasn't large - this boxlike enclosure. But it was big enough to hold four medium sized dogs. If you stuff them into it. And it appeared that the occupants had indeed, been stuffed into it.

The four creatures were packed into this cage. Placed alternatively side by side one another, head to tail.

This isn't about some farmers in China being "too poor" to worry about conservation. This isn't about the need for economic development in struggling areas even if it means environmental side effects. This is about some dumb-ass man-purse-swinging cognac-swilling hair-dying white-sock-wearing audi-riding noveau riche motherf-----s showing off for their friends and their er nai how much money they have by dining out on some of the world's most endangered animals.

Thought you'd heard the last of SARS? ABCNews reports: About 300 survivors of a deadly outbreak of SARS in China in 2003 are now suffering from serious after-effects, possibly due to aggressive hormone treatment to save their lives, the Beijing News said on Friday.

"You walk down the street of Kinshasa, you see Chinese people working side by side with Africans in a way that you just don’t see Europeans and Americans do."

The Liberty Times posts daily news stories in both English and Chinese - though meant for people learning English, by using some online tools and browser plugins we can take advantage of this resource to learn Chinese.

The larger-than-life botanist, explorer, photographer and ethnographer Joseph F Rock may not have discovered western China, but he was one of the first outsiders to introduce its kaleidoscope of geography, flora, fauna and ethnic groups to a curious outside world.

I think it's all too easy to get over focused on our China experience and forget what it's like to live as an expat in other parts of the world. This article highlights some of the pros and cons of expat life here and provides a useful reference point for expat kvetching.

A look at some of the reasons the average China-side supplier honestly has no idea of what occurring in the global markets.