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Beijing: A Chinese businessman has advertised on the Internet for a stand-in mistress to be beaten up by his wife to vent her anger and to protect his real mistress, Chinese media reported on Monday.

The "successful" candidate would be 35 and originally from northeastern China and would be paid 3,000 yuan ($400) per 10 minutes, it said.

Looks like the times they are a'changin' and China's youth are all about the nookie. A China Daily article recently discovered that an "overwhelming majority" of high school girls would not turn away requests for sex by their boyfriends.

Though, the article points out, only 6.2% have actually had sex, it would seem the rest are chomping at the bit to try it. What's next? Skipping school to smoke pot behind the chou doufu stand?

Chinese blogger Beijing Fish is tired of people who use cheap ways of drawing attention to themselves. She believes that their antics are the result of having no talent and feeling inferior.

The Chinese port city of Dalian is becoming an outsourcing center for multinationals

Ever wanted to know what the Chinese hacker network looked like? Well, now you can.

TPD discusses China sharing more than their holiday spirit with the US. With ever-increasing need for coal, massive toxic clouds are on the fast winds across the Pacific - and unlike the Great Wall, can be seen from space.

The Duck brings up an interesting point about how environmental problems are quickly reaching the breaking point when people are going to stand up and say "I'm mad as hell and I ain't going to take it anymore!"

IF PROFESSOR Ross Garnaut is right and the Chinese economy is reaching a turning point, this has profound implications not just for the way the Chinese authorities manage things, but for the way China's further development affects us all.

The Icehouse blues joint was part of the high-end outfit RBL (Restaurant, Bar, Lounge) and aimed at taking Beijing's F&B sector to a new level when it opened in 2005. Instead, the place shut its doors a few weeks ago. What went wrong?

The latest post from our Lost Laowai blog is one of great fury and furious anger at China's population's apparently inability to get involved when someone needs help as well as a general detachment from the fact that the world is a shared place and not just for them to stand in doorways as the rest of us try to get by.