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The Hao Hao Report has been added to the latest version of the excellent WordPress plugin - Sociable. The plugin allows blog owners to easily add a collection of icons to their posts making the addition of their articles to various social bookmarking sites (such as this) a breeze.

To see this in action - check out any of the posts at the Lost Laowai Blog.

It's official, the 2007 China Blog Awards are here. If you run an English-language, China focused blog, or you just like clicking things that say "vote" be sure to check out this article for all the details.

The Hao Hao Report is proud to be hosting the China Blog Awards 2007 - Best Story. We've dubbed it the Zui Hao (Best) Report.

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A catchy little tune by Chris Pereira, a more creative version of Hong Laowai (Red Foreigner) who puts together his own original Chinese songs as well as vlogs his thoughts on contemporary China. (h/t to Danwei)

To help celebrate National Day here in China, the Lost Laowai Blog proudly presents a comedic look at significant events in China over the last 57 years of CPC rule. Tongue in cheek doesn't cover it. Parts are just downright stupid - and I wrote it.

This doubles as the official announcement that Lost Laowai (and in turn, Hao Hao Report) now has a blog. Let us know what you think.

Danwei points us to this blog, on which an American professor at Peking University in Beijing details his protest of Dreamworks' Kungfu Panda. Though the description of the protest is in English, the reasons for it are notably absent.

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Hey, just wanted to let everyone know that we've now got Blogmaster Tools for Blogger and WordPress users. If you've got a blog - why not make it easy for people to submit your posts to the Hao Hao Report?

Not super suave with HTML? Mei ta ma de wen ti! Simply follow the step-by-step instructions and you'll be rockin' in no time.

Here's my favorite: "If things worked well here in China, then there would be significantly fewer opportunities for competent westerners. Try not to get too frustrated by the challenges you face."
All 10 are worth a read.

Hi all, thanks to some user feedback, I've modified the HHR in two small ways. The first being that the HHR story titles now link directly to the original article. Complaints were that the article link was too small. This solves that.

The second is it now takes 5 votes to make it to the main page. As the site is now receiving more traffic (currently about 25,000 visitors a month) and we're nearing our 350th member, I've decided to up this as a way to help maintain the quality of the published stories.