Xiaonei.com's literal meaning ('inside school') highlights the fact that it was originally designed as a platform for graduates to keep in touch. However this also proved to be a barrier for extending its user base beyond students. Ren Ren Wang now seeks to attract a wider audience by literally meaning 'everybody's web'.

China declined on Sunday to reveal how many schoolchildren were killed in last year's devastating earthquake, saying the politically sensitive figure still was not calculated nearly 10 months later.

When Chinese people write blog articles, their meaning is often subdued and slightly nuanced, they are less willing be to direct and straightforward. Or, even if it seems that they are being direct, they will have hidden meanings embedded in what they say.

Another Chinese university is planning to screen students and accept them for admission based on interview results instead of the national college entrance exam.

Fudan University was ...

"According to informed sources in Henan, there was a large-scale student riot late night on June 15th at the Shengda Institute of Business Management of the Zhengzhou University located in Xinzheng city.

At its worst, almost 10,000 people were rioting. The students destroyed the university facilities and then marched onto the streets to vandalize street lamps and telephone booths, and they looted banks, supermarkets and electronic stores.

Summary: On December 10, a forum post started to spread on the Chinese major BBS – Shanghai Maritime University female graduate student Yang Yuanyuan (杨元元) committed suicide in the dormitory bathroom. Criticisms pointed to the University. University publicity department then scrambled to post relevant information about the incident over night.

Liaocheng University spent some $10.1 million dollars on a gateway that does nothing but sit and, hopefully, attract new students.

The university counters - they only wasted ...

There are some who say the Zimbabwe-registered cargo plane that crashed on takeoff from Shanghai's international airport was carrying arms, but the plane's operator says it wasn't carrying sensitive goods. Simon Clarke, a senior executive with Zimbabwe-based Avient Ltd.

Photos of university students at a college in Sichuan giving offerings of fruit and incense to a shrine in honor of pop star Li Yuchun have spread like wildfire online recently. College students praying to a pop star to bless them with high examination scores? Many netizens and TV talk-show hosts were incredulous.