You know you've made it in life when those guys from Next Media Animation devote an entire episode to you. Congratulations Yang Rui! For more NMA hilarity, click here. more ›

Oleg Vedernikov, the principal cellist of the Beijing Symphony Orchestra and arguably the most famous Russian expat in China, is now officially jobless. The orchestra has decided to sack him for his "uncivilised behaviour" in an incident on a high-speed train headed from Shenyang to Beijing last week. more ›

Kate Springer of TIME's Ecocentric blog, has some eye-popping numbers in her latest post on land subsidence, which she says is affecting more than 50 cities in China. Across the country, 49,000 sq. mi. of land have dropped at least 8 in, and Shanghai is, unsurprisingly, leading China's rapid descent into the ground, and has sunk more than 6 ft. since 1921. more ›

Yang Rui (杨锐), the world's most widely watched Chinglish talkshow host and anchor of CCTV News' Monologue Dialogue, has, in his latest statement to Josh Chin of the Wall Street Journal, attempted to walk back some of his more incendiary remarks made against foreigners in China. more ›

Just days after signing former Italian national team head coach Marcello Lippi, Guangzhou Evergrande, who currently sit atop the CSL standings, kept their hot streak alive by defeating Qingdao Jonoon last night 1-0. Lippi, who led Italy to a World Cup victory in 2006, signed a 2 1/2 year contract with the club last Thursday. more ›

So much for a warm welcome. Just hours after the Daily Mail reported that Didier Drogba was set to leave Chelsea and finally sign a £250,000-a-week (RMB 2.5 million-a-week!) contract with Shanghai Shenhua, Nicolas Anelka — Drogba's former teammate/entire reason for coming to Shanghai — threatened to quit the team all together. more ›

29 Chinese fishermen kidnapped by North Koreans have finally been freed and are now home in China. more ›

"There is a group of people who make their living from politics, who along the way evolve into rulers. Their interests are not the same as the interests of the people. But to achieve their own goals, and to further their own interests, they will deceive the people and get them to make sacrifices for the nation. The truth is that they're getting people to sacrifice for their own interests. Most wars in our world were started this way." more ›

Are you a native English speaker with 10 years of media experience and desperate for a job? If so, you might want to consider joining the international arm of CCTV News because they're hiring news editors for Dialogue, now the favourite talkshow of China's expatriate community. more ›

In the Saturday edition of The Washington Post, Andrew Higgens and Maureen Fan waxed poetic about the two-facedness of China's Communist leaders denouncing Western values while simultaneously enrolling their children and grandchildren into Western universities. more ›

Al-Jazeera's Melissa Chan, whose press visa was recently revoked by Chinese authorities, in comments made on the latest edition of Listening Post which takes a look China's new media and soft power strategy: "This is the first expulsion in more than a decade. So I think to look into it as the beginning of any kind of a pattern or shift would be premature. But there is a Chinese saying that you "kill the chickens to scare the monkeys" and in this case I may have been the sacrificial chicken to warn other foreign journalists from looking at sensitive stories." more ›

A few links to start off your day: Ma Ying-jeou portraits egged, miraculous coal mine rescues, Chinese art collectors, Jackie Chan, Zhou Yongkang, and more. more ›