Hao Hao ReportThe best China news and blog posts

A hilarious post by ChouChou at Sinocidal giving you a number of reasons, with examples, of why NOT to learn Chinese. "Being able to understand Chinese just means that you can understand the lies and excuses fed to you everyday. The more fluent you are, the more elaborate these excuses will become. Sorry, your meal isn’t ready yet because the chef has joined the Black Civil Rights movement. Sorry, the landlord won’t repair your shower because it’s traditional for foreign tenants to repair their own showers during months which contain the letter “r”.

This post from The China Expat gives some insight into the Chinese banking industry and the pressures it is undergoing as the deadline draws near for the Chinese banking market to open up to foreign companies.

Another great Talk Talk China post focusing on the strangeness of some aspects of Chinese culture - specifically when trying to get to the heart of the matter.

Researchers in Columbia University and Cornell Medical College have shown in a recent study that acupuncture is effective in alleviating the severity of pain in patients with chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome.

A recent study done in Italy and reported in the Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine compared the effect of acupuncture for migraine headaches versus conventional pain killer therapy.

One of the most interesting features of this study is that each patient was given a complete examination prior to the start of the test. This allowed the acupuncture therapy to be tailored to the individual causation of each patient’s condition.

China appears to be getting more and more serious at protecting its own intellectual property.

A Chinese company, using the Madrid system (the primary international system for facilitating the registration of trademarks in multiple jurisdictions around the world.) registered....

A good post from The Useless Tree that details the liberalization of China's legal system by exampling a Web site set up specifically to help mistresses with their rights under the law.

One man's struggle to find inner peace at the bank.

ChouChou has sat down and etched out a rough sketch of Chinese History and it's defining moments (including the formation of Sinocidal.com in 2006). A great laugh.