An excellent post offering up some rare insight into the current Chinese creative industry and where it's heading down the road.

Develop your karaoke chops. Guitar chords for "Sile Dou Yao Ai" (死了都要爱) by Shin (信乐团), includes English and pinyin cheatsheets, downloadable as a PDF.

How to buy fresh fish, a little demographics of Japanese occupations in China and a slice of Dalian life and troubles.

Obama’s decisive and historic victory in the U.S. presidential election brings many hopes and promises. What could his tenure in the White House mean for China’s environment?

Conservatively, 80% of my students had no idea that today was the big day and half of that number thought Barack Obama was either a Japanese card game or the starting forward for the Miami Heat.

A Chinese student fell to her death in Sydney after being sexually assaulted. Liao Wei and her boyfriend fell from their third-storey apartment. Liao, her boyfriend and two other flat mates were all sexually assaulted by an intruder.

Here in my time zone, we have just a few more hours left of Blog Action Day 2008, where bloggers all over the world commit to covering one specific topic. This year, that topic is POVERTY.

I wanted to examine the cross-section between poverty and environmentalism. And I won’t just focus on China because I believe this issue is widespread and relevant to many countries.

In alphabetical order, here are almost four places that hail that opened in Beijing during the last six months and hail from Beijing's sibling city to the south: Shanghai. A report card on Blue Frog, Element Fresh, Enoteca, and Klubb Rouge.

A young man shares his story on the internet of his sister demanding to break relations with their family because their poverty is preventing her happiness.

Coal-fired power plants account for some 70 to 80% of China’s total power generation. A group of MIT researchers have released a preliminary report on a comprehensive survey of China’s coal power plant industry revealing surprising conclusions that make the report a must-read for any China energy analyst.