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The now infamous "reporter" Zi Beijia, who faked the cardboard baozi story in June, was sentenced on Sunday to a year in jail and a 1,000 RMB fine. Wonder if he's told his family that he's just doing an exposee on Chinese prisons and rumours that they serve sawdust in their zhou.

Dezza at Mask of China explains how the town of Huairou outside Beijing conspired to cheat his Laowai-ass by sending him up to a section of the Great Wall - BUT NEGLECTING TO TELL HIM THAT IT WAS CLOSED FOR REPAIRS!

Can you spell BOYCOTT, boys and girls?

2007 in review - A quick examination of how Hong Kong's air quality has deteriorated since the Hong Kong Observatory started collecting full data in 2000.

A Hong Kong journalist has been jailed for five years in mainland China, after being convicted of spying.

Short and interesting comment on Hong Kong's dramatic improvement in air quality in July 2007.

Dezza over at Mask of China says he'll be retiring his blog fairly soon. The China Blogosphere will miss him, for sure.

Hong Kong, a city internationally renowned for its high standard of living, quality social services, and its attraction as a global tourism destination, is facing a crisis when it comes to the provision of local healthcare services.

A mysterious epidemic is killing pigs in southeastern China, but international and Hong Kong authorities said today that the Chinese government is providing little information about it, or about the contaminated wheat gluten that has caused deaths and illnesses in other animals.

The lack of even basic details is reviving longstanding questions about whether China is willing to share information about health and food safety issues with potential global implications.

During my discussion with the WSJ reporter last week, I was asked whether or not I thought buyers were getting smarter.

At that time my answer was an unequivocal “yes and no”.