After losing the title to Ukrainian Leonid Stadnyk in 2006, Bao Xishun has been renamed the world's tallest man according to Guinness World Records. The roll-back to Bao was because Stadnyk refused to be officially measured, claiming he didn't want the fame and attention that has been showed on Bao.

Chinese government will provide 100,000 free condoms for the athletes in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Village. Chinese online speculate how they will be used...

Like Gary Brolsma (the Numa Numa guy) and Mahir Cagri (the Turkish “I Kiss You” guy) we now have a new internet celebrity who’s name is not disclosed yet, but he calls himself - Honglaowai, or if translating from Chinese - the red foreigner. He sings Chinese patriotic songs in Chinese.

In Xi’an, like in many other major cities in China, prostitues, sex shops, and adult films have all claimed an important place in its local economy. While the growing public popularity of these adult items and services reflect a change in the way that Chinese people view sex, there is also a large foreign demand that is fueling this market. For this reason, many of the sex shops and...

“He was already dead by the time that I arrived,” a Chinese friend explained to me. “I rode my bicycle as fast as I could to the countryside to see the execution but in the end, I only heard the gun shot.” My friend was recounting to me the story from her hometown of a young man who had been caught stealing 400 RMB from a wealthy lady . He had been quickly handed over to the police and sentenced to death.

“Two American men were deported for sleeping with too many girls,” a foreign friend reported to me sometime ago. “They gave a number of girls hope about marriage and traveling to America and the girls willingly gave themselves to the guys.” My friend was a teacher in a small town in Central China were news always traveled fast. She explained that when the girls realized that they had been ‘used’, they complained to the local authorities who promptly arrested the men and sent them out of the country.

So a guy walks into a bank, right. He's got seven bags worth of cash. But get this: it's all full of those useless little jiao notes that we all throw away (or at best save for bus rides).

The clerks don't want anything to do with this, obviously, but rules state they have to accept it. This guy is my hero!

Found this article thanks to http://madaboutshanghai.blogs.com, and it's just nuts. Parents are offering cosmetic surgery as an incentive for their kids to do well on college entrance exams. Big on the list of bod-mods is labial reduction... aparently a big problem with today's Chinese teens.