Zhang Ziyi is hot...in China and in the US. She is one of the Hollywood producers most sought after stars.

Good news for Hollywood.

Zhang Ziyi wants to star in ...

Recently the Economist put out its Democracy Index which is always interesting reading. Pretty much anytime you start fairly arbitrarily ranking things, I’m in. There were a few interesting points that I noticed.

BEIJING (AFP) - Asia's space race heated up on Wednesday as China launched its first lunar orbiter, an event hailed by the world's most populous nation as a milestone event in its global rise.

China's year-long expedition, costing 1.4 billion yuan (184 million dollars), kicks off a programme that aims to land an unmanned rover on the moon's surface by 2012 and put a man on the moon by about 2020.

This post outlines the dangers embedded in a government position. Danwei discusses how a cadre worked himself to death, without clothes and with a female associate, in his un-air conditioned car.

Reported cause of death was carbon-monoxide poisoning. Likely from the heavy breathing...

A good friend of 2point6billion, Nick Polimeni, is an experienced QC engineer and conducts work in both China and India. He’s had some interesting comments to make recently to us about Engineering standards in these countries, and the potential competition with the US in technological innovation.

Test your knowledge of online scams and get a free degree!

Guangzhou Baiyun International, China's third busiest airport after Beijing and Shanghai, is expanding its efforts to become an international air cargo and logistics hub in prosperous South China.

It’s only been a month since BBC’s English-language news website was unblocked by Net Nanny for the first time in the three years that I’ve been in China with regular web access.

And now today, more astonishingly, the BBC’s Chinese language news site has also been unblocked, quite possibly for the first time in the history of the Interwebs.

SourceJuice shows its lighter side! Check out these awesome (and somewhat ridiculous!) uses of shipping containers.

Photojournalist Tom Carter traveled for 2 years across the 33 provinces of China to show the diversity of Chinese People in CHINA: Portrait of a People, the most comprehensive book of photography on modern China ever published by a single author.