In Wuhan, China, government officials spend 2 million RMB building the luxury public toilets. Chinese netizens say it is a waste and the money could be used for other more important things. Some ask if China is still a poor country.

The Shaanxi provincial government issues rules dictating what nannies and domestic help can wear/do. Chinese suspect the rules fear nannies becoming mistresses.

Everyone needs some chicken soup for the soul — even pandas. The Wuhan Zoo in central China has been feeding its two pandas home-cooked chicken soup twice in a month to reduce stress and give them a nutritional boost, a zoo official said Friday.

Ren Chaoqi, the Nanyang resident who was fined 1,900 yuan when police discovered an adult film stored on his computer, has been given a reprieve. Following an uproar among netizens and considerable attention from the media, police have reconsidered his punishment and have cancelled his fine

Here is what you don't see in China: You don't see enraged passengers reaching across airline counters and shaking fingers at quivering airline employees. You don't see people drinking way too much on flights and making scenes. In other words, you don't see behavior that goes beyond boorish to the realms of freakish and even dangerous.

Provocative title on an interesting article:

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...