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Al Jazeera's take on modern China is exactly the same easy paradoxes as you'd expect from CNN or Fox News. They make up for the intro by immediately following it up with the stylings of Chinese chef turned rapper Crazy Chef, who guides the presenter around Wangfujing's snack street.

Chinese cemeteries are selling paper replicas of Viagra pills to be burned for dead relatives as a wish for satisfying sex in the afterlife, state media reported Wednesday.

Customers are snapping up the paper Viagra, as well as images of condoms and heavily made-up bar girls ahead of the annual Tombsweeping Festival on April 5, the Nanjing Morning News reported.

Chinese have traditionally burned fake money in honour of dead relatives during the festival, when families clean their ancestors' tombs and graves.

Based on the tremendously successful Firefox 3, the China Edition is a super-charged version that provides a whole range of benefits to Internet users in China. Note there are both a Chinese version and an English version, and we provide downloads that run on Windows, Mac, and Linux. The English version also has the same services targeted at users in China.

Bad news is no news according to our boys in Beijing. This is on digg too, so if you want to vote it up the Digg list, by all means, please do.

As more and more students vie for the thinning number of post-grad employment opportunities, an ever-increasing number of "learning mills" are popping up to take advantage of those most in need. Under the promise of "undergraduate programs" students are lured into paying tuition fees and making the, often long, trips to the campus - only to find out the whole thing is a scam and they'll be lucky to get a piece of paper worth the pulp its printed on.
Check out this excellent ESWN post for the whole story and loads of photos of what happens when the students fight back.

As a preview of the 2008 edition of the Hong Kong Arts Festival which will be held between February 14 and March 16, you can read this interview of Tisa Ho, executive director of the festival.

BEIJING -- "Gu Gu" is one of the star attractions at the Beijing Zoo but the panda bear with a bad temper has lashed out at a fan for the second time, this time mauling a 15-year-old boy.

Eight-year-old Gu Gu, who weighs 110 kilograms (242 pounds), attacked the boy after he jumped into the animal's enclosure, the Beijing News reported on Tuesday. The boy, Li Xitao, had both his legs gnawed to the bone, the paper said.

Monday's attack was not the first time Gu Gu has tasted human flesh.

BEIJING (Reuters) - A group of Chinese reporters came up with a novel idea to test how greedy local hospitals were -- pass off tea as urine samples and submit the drink for tests.

The results: six out of 10 hospitals in Hangzhou, the capital of the rich coastal province of Zhejiang, visited by the reporters over a two-day period this month concluded that the patients' urinal tracts were infected.

Police have rescued 31 people forced to work for a year as slaves - given only bread and water and no pay - at a brickworks run by the son of a local Communist Party official, China's state media reported today.

Eight of the workers were so traumatised that all they could remember was their names, the Beijing News said, citing a report in the Shanxi Evening Post.

One labourer was beaten to death with a hammer for not working hard enough, before police raided the factory to set the others free, the newspaper said.