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One of the players who played in the match that featured the great brawl between the Chinese Olympic team and Queen's Park Rangers has been suspended for asking an army officer whether he had slept with a prostitute. H/T to Richard Spencer.

With China men's football team embarrassing the Chinese, many Chinese are inspired by Iraq's athletes overcoming so much to get to the 2008 Olympic Games.

China has no extended history of being friendly or tolerant of gay people and alternative lifestyles.

That wind may be changing.

Beijing opened its first ...

Three weeks before Beijing hosts the Olympics, two weeks after Zheng Jie stormed Wimbledon, and the same week that Yao Ming returned to action with the Chinese national team, Sports Illustrated China put on its cover a tennis player who hasn't played a professional match in four years and never won a Grand Slam.

Taiwanese politics is so interesting. I loved this article's description of independent MP Yen Ching-piao - Yen (is) a short, squat man with owlish eyes and the piercing look of a mafia godfather.

Chinese housing developers are luring that country's burgeoning middle class with theme-park-style housing developments that hearken to romanticized versions of European cities: Merrie Olde England, Venice, Italy, Zurich, etc. In Nanjing, there are Balinese retreats and Italian villas. In the southeastern city of Hangzhou, there are Venice and Zurich. In downtown Beijing, everything is about Manhattan, with Soho, Central Park and Park Avenue.

In a club match between Sydney FC and Shanghai Shenhua, Chinese players needlessly called for a stretcher seven times. The antics were so absurd even Shanghai coach Osvaldo Gimenez criticised his players post-match.

The Chinese peacekeepers are friendly with the Nigerian troops sharing their base, who say they were impressed by daily karate routines of the Chinese.

Delhi was awash with Tibetans this Saturday as a much-publicised but unofficial 'international' soccer match was due to be played between organisers of the ‘national’ team and a select Delhi All Star XI.