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Under China's strict birth-control laws, Wai Ling, 19 and her boyfriend, 21, are too young to get married, and without being married they can't register their daughter's birth. They could bribe a state official to turn a blind eye, but that would cost far more than they could ever afford - half a year's salary of £1,300. The alternative of a court appearance and swingeing fine for having an illegal child would be equally ruinous - so Wai Ling feels she has little choice but to sell her newborn baby to a child trafficker.

Move over Little Emperors the imperial household hound just gained some status! Maybe the Chinese will be dressing up their mutts now that a one dog policy is in effect.

The This Is China! blog has a good post discussing the loss of faith in life that China's younger generation is facing today.

The point is well illustrated when a young lady comments that she envies the generation that grew up in the Cultural Revolution - maybe what they believed was wrong, but at least they had something to believe in.

One should be careful to equate fast growth, large numbers, and impressive actions with that of how China will overtake other first world nations in the near future. Strong growth now, does not mean it will continue to do so in the future.

Beijing has declared time out on Time Out. The English-language edition of the monthly magazine that gives foreign residents and visitors the latest lowdown on the coolest bars, the hippest shops and the hottest shows in the Chinese capital has disappeared. The June issue of Time Out Beijing has been banned from distribution by China's censors.

Time Magazine has listed Chinese blogger Wang Xiaofeng as one of its people of the year. In a short profile of the blogger, Time try to compare him to Bart Simpson.

As China's CSI 300 Index purged about 4.67 trillion yuan of market capitalization since October 16 in one of the most bearish months since 1995, equity markets speculators were badly hit. Another group of investors were equally hit by the crisis: Chinese art lovers.

"grumpy, hostile, apathetic", Chinese teenagers reach the twentieth century.

Vice Minister of the National Population and Family Planning Commission, Zhao Baige, has announced that the government is examining the effects of removing its controversial one-child policy, in place since the 70s.