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shanghaiist.com — The small island of Pingtan in Fujian province will soon become China's "Little Taiwan." Chinese officials are recruiting Taiwanese citizens for leadership positions and Taiwanese currency will be circulated.

Pingtan, which is just 126 km away from Taiwan, was once used to stage military exercises by the People's Liberation Army.

www.reuters.com — Chinese authorities are investigating eggs which bounce after being boiled and may make men sterile, state media reported Friday, in the latest food safety scare to hit the country.

www.huffingtonpost.com — Did social media just prematurely kill of the leader of North Korea?

www.wantchinatimes.com — Social networking website Twitter, which is blocked in China, announced a new censorship system on Thursday to allow country-specific censorship of tweets that might violate local laws, a move prompting a flurry of criticism around the world. Chinese artist and human rights activist Ai Weiwei said he would quit Twitter if the company follows through with the new rules.

www.wantchinatimes.com — Differences in political systems greatly affects interpretations of China's human rights situation, according to an editorial in the Sunday edition of the People's Daily, the flagship newspaper of the Communist Party.

www.wantchinatimes.com — The amazing capacity for spending displayed by Chinese tourists has not gone unnoticed in the international luxury market. Swarms of tourists from China visited the United Kingdom during the New Year shopping season and each on average spent more than 2,500 pounds (around US$4,000) in London's famous Harrods department store, reports our sister newspaper China Times.

www.wantchinatimes.com — The Hong Kong-based Sing Tao Daily reports that all officials who were punished in a toxic milk formula scandal in 2008 which poisoned 300,000 children in China have since resumed their posts.

www.theglobeandmail.com — Pollution costs China, the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases, hundreds of millions – perhaps billions – of yuan annually. It also threatens the ability of the world’s second-largest economy to evolve into a fully developed, first world country from its current industrializing state

www.google.com — Pregnant women and mothers pushing strollers were among more than 1,500 protesters who took to the streets in Hong Kong Sunday to oppose the growing number of mainland Chinese giving birth in the city.

www.telegraph.co.uk — China's political and economic reforms are now "being held hostage" by "powerful vested interests", according to a new report from a professor with close ties to the Communist party.