The new Miss Universe China, Luo Zilin, is in New York City, preparing for the big pageant and she's been living for the last few weeks in the home of none other than Yue-Sai Kan, the TV personality and businesswoman who has a cosmetics label named after her. more ›

• Following Chris St. Cavish’s departure from Smart Shanghai, we’ve been slightly starved of food gossip. To fill the void, we gave you our three favourite food blogs in our ongoing feature; Threesday.
• Our quote of the day has once again provoked much discussion. This week Gao Xiaosong, China’s Got Talent judge, referred to all Shanghainese men as wimps. This has resulted in men from Shanghai demanding an apology, as well as a lot of discussion from our readers. Have your say here.
• Trying to avoid the ‘there’s something fishy’ pun when talking about the fish section in Chinese supermarkets, we all know that animal rights campaigners are probably going to want to avoid the sea food section in order to avoid the buckets of live frogs, turtles etc. Imagine some peoples surprise when they stumbled across shark’s heads. This has thus led to speculation that Wal-Mart is selling shark meat.

Saturday saw China's first ever Miss Laowai competition in Beijing, a beauty pageant that “focuses on all beautiful aspects and talents of foreign women in Beijing,” (according to the host). The contest is designed to promote cultural exchange, showcase foreign female talent and support the community. Below is a detailed timeline of what actually happened. more ›

To the right is Wang Lu, a girl from Xinjiang who was just crowned China's representative in the Miss Tourism International 2010 competition. To get the first place prize, she showed off her noble temperament, magnanimous spirit and dazzling evening wear looks over the last few days in Hangzhou. more ›

If you always wanted to be a homecoming queen, a model, or a contestant on Oriental Angel, you may want to set your sights on the 2010 Miss Laowai China beauty pageant. The competition is sort of like the Miss Universe competition- one competitor per country will be chosen as a representative for the entire country- but only for expats in China. We're still not sure if this is a joke or a hoax, but it's certainly entertaining! more ›

Looks like Shaq's not the only celebrity to get some Shaolin fever. Over the weekend, the venerable Kung Fu institution saw an influx of pretty ladies as the Miss Tourism Queen International competition high kicked their way into Henan. more ›