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As "The Laowai Death Stare" is having so much success in the hao!hao! report, I thought we could draw some attention on another post on the same subject and that i find even more funny (and interesting!).
Learn about the "Marco Polo Syndrome"!

Lloyd Lofthouse rivals his wife/famed authoress Anchee Min with his impressive debut My Splendid Concubine, tracing the true-life exploits of Sir Robert Hart, the celebrated expatriate credited for bringing old China into the 20th century. A thought-provoking examination of attitudes, prejudices and cultures; rife with the entertainingly explicit dalliances of a single white man adrift in China.

Husband gets erection problems after a work accident.
Wife sues for lack of sex asks for 120,000 RMB for vibrators.
Wife also claims to have spent 8,000 RMB (US$1,000) so far this year on sex toys and `neccesary hygenic' products.
Sexually frustrated wife has claim rejected by the courts.

Weifang City wife, wife sends message to departing husband.

Canadian citizen Huseyin Celil may be put to death by the Chinese government as early as next week according to his wife. Celil is ethnically a Uighur Muslim, a group of people who live in China's western Xinjiang province.

Sentenced to death for his "anti-government" activities, Celil has been held in China since his capture and extradition in March from Uzbekistan.

Lin Xianglian was cowering in his kitchen from the strongest typhoon to hit China in half a century when he heard a roar and the house next door collapsed.

"I didn't dare go look what was happening. The wind was so strong my wife and I together were leaning on the front door to stop it blowing in and water was flooding in the back..."

Chinese netizens discuss a story about a man who has been married only for 1 year but has already been beaten by his wife 9 times. Should he get a divorce?

This week, Xinjiang’s Olympic athletes began their final winter training session, the number four was banished from future Urumqi license plates, a medical specialist blew the whistle on lead poisoning problems among Xinjiang children, Urumqi triggered its level “blue” early warning pollution alarm for the first time, the Xinjiang PSB went to the other end of China to bust a drug smuggling ring, and more, at the New Dominion.

Hundreds of thousands of Shanghai teenagers are sent to Xinjiang in the early 1960's. A few years later, they're fueling the chaos and violence of the Cultural Revolution. (With archive articles from the NY Times.)