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A baserunner leads off of first base.

The first baseman sneaks up behind and asks, "Do you have any nude pictures of your wife?"

"Nope," says the baserunner.

"You wanna buy some?"

"Huh?!"

2006 was a grim year for China's environment, assaulted by it's own economic growth: there was a major pollution spill 'every other day' in China. Four cities have been blacklisted and will be punished.

The top ten business events in 2006 listed by the International Business Daily.

Now this is a top 10 list I can get into - no pun intended. ESWN outlines the ten best (or at least most talked about) sex-related incidents of 2006. And yeah, there's some photos.

The top 5 strangest China posters I have ever come across...

Market share coverage of China's mobile handset business and China Mobile earnings for first half 2006.

A story (translated via ESWN) by a young girl who after saying goodbye at the train station to her friends stumbles into an eye-opening experience with China's poor.

Befriending an elderly woman collecting rubbish for the little money it provides, the girl helps her pick up bottles and any rubbish of value. The girl then helps the woman bring the garbage back to her small, impoverished community, in turn opening the girl to a side of her city she'd never dreamt still existed in the 21st century. A touching photojournal of the girl's journey.

Chinese Internet users spent 276.76 billion yuan on Internet services in 2006, almost 50 percent more than the previous year, as their number rose to 136 million by the end of 2006, the Internet Society of China said yesterday.

Shang Wenjie's selection as China's "Super Girl" was reported on SINA.

Shang had no previous voice training but majored in French at Fudan University. She won China's version of "American Idol" by ...