Hao Hao ReportThe best China news and blog posts

Sexual encouragement is one reason. Check out this humorous but true top ten list. From a podcast.

Every wonder how many hours you work at your cushy English teaching job compared to how much you would be working in the West? What if you compared it to the amount of hours worked by a typical Chinese working class employee? This post breaks it all down to exact numbers, and the results...well, they probably aren't too surprising.

The concept of an au pair is not new. A young woman or occasionally a young man comes to stay in this country offering childcare services in return for room and board and a small weekly stipend. The au pair gets a host family and the opportunity to attend classes at an American college or University while the family gets a flexible, live-in childcare provider. Both parties get the benefit of rich cultural exchange.

The American Chamber of Commerce recently published its 2008 Report on American Business in China, which is predictably American in their recommendations. I don’t disagree with any of them. However, it is urging the Chinese government to become more like our own government in how things are run...

NY Times asserts China is sucking "lost iPhones" from US market. Same analysis I did three weeks ago, with revenue impacts in US & UK markets.

An American consular officer's take on a Taiwanese judge declaring an American Woman's English grammar to be "wrong" and deciding against her.

A short post about a Chinese woman who poisoned her cheating boyfriends with a rat poison laced kiss

A tall story about a Thai woman who as a child, was sent to live with Zhou Enlai during the 1950s, only to experience the Cultural Revolution as a teenager.

"How many of you died? It was just a few," Gao said. "China has so many people, anyway." 21 year old woman is arrested for a Youtube video she made after being separated from her beloved online gaming in China's 3-day mourning period.