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Chinese movie star Zhang Ziyi inadvertently kitted out in the same Armani dress as rival Chinese movie star Xu Jinglei.

The results are in, tallies totalled, and once again China claims the top spot as "Worst In Asia"... for spam! This post at Angry Chinese Blogger gives all the details of how China is pluggin' up the net's inboxes.

Forbes releases their 25 most powerful Mainland Chinese celebrities list. Perhaps unsurprisingly Yao Ming was top of the list - followed by fellow athlete Liu Xiang in the number 2 spot and action star Jet Li in third. (h/t to Hotpoter)

Although many top Hong Kong talents have started off in exploitation films, few can match the real-life Cinderella story of Shu Qi, whose career has seen her rise from porno starlet to internationally recognized A-list actress.

China Daily's star columnist Raymond Zhou warns people not to get too carried away by the rising Chinese GDP.

A post (in translation via ESWN) from professor and blogger Zhang Jiehai where he makes a call-to-arms for all Chinese netizens to "hunt down" the blogger behind the popular Sex In Shanghai blog for his crimes against morality (towards the virtues of Chinese women).

Baidu reported that the number of Chinese bloggers, that is blogs written in Chinese has hit 19.87 million.

That's a 24% jump over November last year.

The average blogger updated their blog every

"If I were worried about one single element of doing business in China today, it wouldn’t be inflation. Nor would it be the rising costs of exports due to the rapid appreciation of the yuan. The cost of labor going up would not be my main concern either. No, all of these issue seem unpleasant yet manageable, in one way or another, even if difficult. So what then pray tell would it be? Definitely it would be rising Chinese nationalism."

If you run your blog on Google's new Blogger Beta site, check out this code for a way to add a "Hao Hao This" link to your posts - making it easy for your readers to submit your stories to the Hao Hao Report

Similar to Google's service, this code is beta, and as such... you might have to fiddle with it a bit to get it just how you want. I tested it on a basic template in Blogger Beta and it worked.

Can someone please tell me why Google decided to create yet another coding system for Web design?