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A Cinese woman's attempt to teach her dog how to drive proved a costly error as her car crashed into an oncoming vehicle, state media said.

I spent most of last week in Inner Mongolia as a part-time observer, part-time participant in Ordos 100, a gathering of architects from around the world, organized by Ai Weiwei’s FAKE Design Studio and the good folks at Jiang Yuan Water Engineering Co. Ltd. It was a strange few days...

Just as they are getting started, foreign private equity firms are finding significant barriers to entry in cracking the China market.

Imagethief discusses the problems facing the relationships between China's State-controlled media and foreign media. Good read. Check it out.

After seven months of WTO discussions, Xinhua will relinquish its role as a regulator of foreign financial information suppliers. Foreign companies such as Reuters and Bloomberg will no longer have to compete against their regulator.

At least four foreign correspondents have been hauled into the Foreign Ministry for a dressing down in the last month, according to Tim Johnson, who writes for McClatchy. China is officially embracing a freer press, but Johnson says the pressure is actually increasing.

Also worth reading the comments, which sound like trolls who wandered over from the Duck Pond.

It's not all bad. Report on the architectural delights of the "Bird's Nest", the "Cube" and "Digital Beijing" - China's three most impressive buildings for the Olympic Games.

From the article: HONG KONG (Reuters) - Thousands of Chinese villagers clashed with riot police after barricading officials and foreign businessmen in a warehouse they said had been built on illegally seized land, a newspaper reported on Friday.

BEIJING (Reuters) - China has banned fire department officials from receiving sexual favors as bribes from companies seeking their business, local media reported on Friday.