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So, y'know that guy wanted for allegedly raping his daughter who turned out to be hanging in Suzhou, not really hiding at all? Bill Dobson of This is China knew him, had lunch with him, and says he gave few signs of being the extremely creepy individual we've heard about in the last week.

It has been out for a bit, but I just had a chance to look at it this week. Skymaul: Happy Crap You Can Buy From a Plane is a panic for those of you who are one flight short of a upgrade.

A plane flying in from Beijing lands a bit short of the mark at Heathrow. Oddly enough, PM Gordon Brown, who was on the runway waiting to depart for China had his flight delayed as a result.

China, no stranger to voicing its disapproval, has condemned such international outrages as the refueling of Chen Shui-bian’s plane on American soil in January (a crash landing would have been OK, I guess), foreign leaders’ meetings with the Dalai Lama, western media ‘bias’, the rights of non-Chinese peoples to protest in their own countries, and the cultural price of a Starbucks in the Forbidden City. Weighty matters indeed.

Professor Lonnie Hodge takes a darkly humorous look at Chinese tire quality and a recent one-star safety rating of a new Chinese car model.

Does exactly what it says on the tin. Twenty amazing and fun facts for all the family about everybody's favourite Asian country.

As the U.S. holiday shopping season kicked off last week, I hopped a plane for Zhejiang province to visit “Yiwu Little Commodities City,” a sprawling wholesale complex that has been dubbed The Great Mall of China.

2007 in review - A quick examination of how Hong Kong's air quality has deteriorated since the Hong Kong Observatory started collecting full data in 2000.

Do Free Trade Agreements which are generally intended to favor the bigger country, end up forcing the other country into economic conditions which hinder quality, being that it's clear the Multinational corporations go to third world countries to enhance their profits, and give less attention to quality, due to industrial rules infancy in the third world countries?