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The tenth and final update from the longest journey by skateboard ever. Watch as New Zealander Rob Thomson becomes the first person to ever skateboard the breadth of China, and completes his 12,000km solo and unsupported trek by skateboard through Europe, across the USA, and across China.

1,200 bikini clad girls gathered in Guangzhou and stood in the shape of Olympic circles to celebrate the summer games. The spectacle set a new Guinness record. China has a penchant for such huge manuevours. We hold the world record for the biggest mooncake, the most people eating hotpot at the same time. And now the biggest gathering of bikinis.

I started trotting the world when I was 20. Travelling has opened up the world to me and changed my life forever. I posted more of travelogues in Chinese, so if you can read Chinese, pls do go to my Chinese blog.

Yippee! China's yawning trade surplus rose to a monthly record high of $28.7 billion in August as the gap with the United States and Europe widened despite a global economic slowdown.

Cuba's Dayron Robles continues to turn up the heat on Liu Xiang, equalling Liu's former world record in Paris on July 19.

Interview with the people behind the Shanghai EnjoyCard and the website Enjoyclassifieds.com

A former professor beamed us into her Intercultural Communication class this week for a little Q&A session. They had great questions, and it was tons of fun… thought I’m not sure how much we’ll remember, seeing as how we were tanked up on coffee and didn’t sign off ’til 3am. They e-mailed some questions beforehand, and we’ve posted brief answers to some of them below.

A girl from north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region plans to set a new Guiness World Record after eating nothing but dirt for two months. We reported this back in December in “China girl eats pounds of dirt daily” and now she is back in the news.

She intends to stick to her diet and challenge the Guinness World Record for eating only soil, which currently stands at 2 months.

China's President Hu Jintao had a brief online chat with members of the People's Daily's 'Strong Country' online forum this morning.

The whole chat lasted about four minutes. President Hu answered three questions asked by three netizens. The three questions were:

1. Do you use the Internet?
2. What do you do on the Internet?
3. Netizens have put up a lot of suggestions about the country; do you read them?