Hao Hao ReportThe best China news and blog posts

WHAT'S COOL: A free quick test of your Chinese word recognition skills with the UK's Times Online animated flash cards. WHAT SUCKS: Does not provide pronunciation for any words.

A Next Weekly (in translation via ESWN) article by Steven N.S. Cheung, where he gives a bit of depth to some of Beijing's reasons for supression of free speech, and why in the end it will stop knowledge development - and in turn Chinese social development.

The Mutant Palm reveals the free Tibet movement for what they are: a bunch of self-congratulatory pranksters that are unable to engage the Chinese people on the subject of an independent Tibet.

Canada should wrap up more free trade agreements with countries - including China - and revamp the national trade policy because Canada is disappearing from the international stage, a parliamentary committee warns.
"Ultimately, free trade is where we want to go [with China]," International Trade minister David Emerson said. This is the first time a federal Tory minister has made it clear that a free trade talk with China is at least on the drawing board.

Tomorrow's Afternoon Tea is a collection of 10 songs by female artists (or groups with female vocalists) distributed by China's premier online creative network - Neocha - under there Netlabel label. If you want some good Chinese indie music, be sure to check out this free download (about 40 MB).

How open are the Chinese and Taiwanese towards the Free Hugs campaign? first videos, photos and news reports from the Free Hugs campaign in China and Taiwan.

The Element Fresh juice bar on the fourth floor of the Adidas mega-store is giving away juice, smoothies, and coffee for free until sometime in September!

The Dreamblogue (http://blogofdreams.com) recently partnered with Yo2.cn the first free Wordpress blogging platform in China. They have just started and already have 11,000 bloggers!

Language podcast, 40 free online lessons to learn mandarin Chinese. Vocabulary, grammar but also character writting.