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Beijing correspondent Tom Carter revisits the 2007 telecommuncation blackout in China.

With a media blackout on reporting about the "Nail House" - a piece of property that refuses to surrender to developers, and has been surrounded by a massive development pit - it's tough to know if it's still standing.

One Chinese blogger has dared to find out...

Zola, a Chinese blogger who professes himself to be an "Untypical Angry Youth" has set out from Hunan to see if what has quickly become Chongqing's most famous landmark still stands. Keep posted at Ya, I Yee.

2008 coined the Chinese internet meme: 很黄，很暴力 (”very yellow, very violent”). Despite roundly being used in the most humorous of situations, few things truly exemplify the dark side of this meme more than two videos that have spread across the Chinese-language internet this year.

Imagethief rants about cyborg pigeons that can be directed by remote control.

Gotta love China!

A small writeup of the Sexgate for people who missed out on it so far.

Langlang rants about going to a new gym in Hangzhou.

He's an angry man.

It is estimated that about one-third of China's 120 million Internet users are young men who hang out at Internet bars.

Apparently, not all of those boys are stupid...well, not test stupid...

The China Business Journal rants about the recent subway contruction accident in Beijing. She wrongly claims that Rupert Murdoch 'owns' Phoenix TV (when did an 18 per cent stake equate to ownership?)

China added another 14 million Internet users in 2006, retaining its status as the world's second-largest Internet market, with 137 million total users, the China Internet Network Information Centre (CNNIC) announced Tuesday.