In remarks made by Singapore's K Shanmugam on the conclusion of his back-to-back introductory visits as foreign minister to the United States and China, he noted that comments he made on the US-China relationship during his visit to Washington were warmly welcomed in Beijing. more ›

Seeing Red in China has translated a most fascinating account written by Ge Xun (葛洵), a Chinese man who migrated to the United States in 1986. He was back in Beijing recently to take care of funeral arrangements for his mother who had just died at the age of 83. After he was done with family matters, Ge planned to pay a visit to famed "Tiananmen Mother" Ding Zilin (丁子霖), a retired professor whose son was killed in the June 4 crackdown in 1989, and who now leads a group of women like herself to press the government to uncover the truth. more ›

This notice put up by the Huayuan Road Public Security Bureau in Beijing's Haidian district requests owners of hotels and bathhouses in the neighbourhood to ensure that all Tibetan and Uyghur guests are reported to them. Business owners are also to ensure thorough identification and verification of the ethnicity of all guests, according to the notice. more ›

Yikes! And in other disaster news, the European Space Agency revealed that a catastrophe of Hollywood summer blockbuster proportions was averted in October, when the German satellite ROSAT could have potentially landed in Beijing on its re-entry. more ›

Anti-American crusader Sima Nan (司马南) got his head stuck recently at an escalator at the airport in Washington D.C. but he can consider himself lucky that he walked away with moderate injuries. A nine-year-old boy in Beijing was not so fortunate. He died yesterday after his head got caught between two escalators at a mall: more ›

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See it to believe it : Wan Fuquan creates a new world record by threading 101 needles with mouth in one minute on the set of CCTV Guinness World Records Special in Beijing. more ›

Shot by Ricardo Mendialdua in Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou and Suzhou. more ›

We told you earlier today how the iPhone 4S release was halted in Beijing after scalper scuffles. Now watch the store get pelted with eggs. Hilarious. Watch the report from Reuters after the jump... more ›

After hours of waiting in line, the army of scalpers that descended on Beijing's Sanlitun Apple Store to buy the iPhone 4S have reportedly been told that there are no iPhones and that they all have to go home due to scuffles that occurred throughout the night! more ›

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We're not huge fans of dubstep, but we have to admit this guy's a great dancer. Furthermore, he was in China promoting a good cause (raising money for students who want to study abroad) so perhaps dubstep is in some ways good aftera-WUBWUBWUB WUUUB WUBWUBWUB. more ›

The Beijing municipal government announced new rules yesterday requiring internet users to register on Chinese microblogging platforms with their real names before they are allowed to publish posts. Under the new so-called "Weibo Development and Management Regulations", microblog users would still be able to continue to post under nicknames, but each account can now only be activated if they are first tied to a real identity. Users who do not register within the next three months may find their accounts frozen and unable to publish new posts. more ›

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Odd story of the day: A Singaporean man who has been overstaying in Beijing for six years escaped from a Chinese jail term by tampering with his passport so as to get repatriated. The story via the Straits Times: more ›

A lovely new visual essay by Dai Sugano, an Emmy Award-winning photojournalist with the San Jose Mercury News (Silicon Valley's hometown paper), portrays the experience of arriving in China for the first time, and being confronted with its myriad contradictions. more ›

A man living in Tongzhou District in Beijing this week reports a story very similar to that of a Pudong woman in April: after purchasing a chunk of meat from a local vegetable market, he later discovered that it was glowing blue in the dark! more ›

On January 1st, 2010, an old man mysteriously disappeared from a Beijing hospital, and remained missing despite an extensive search conducted by his family. Nearly one year later, in December 2010, a hospital worker suddenly discovered the man's mummified remains hidden in the hospital's sub-basement. more ›

Was it too cold for you last night to head out of the four walls of your apartment to catch the lunar eclipse? Well here's an awesome video we found of the eclipse played at four times the speed. Another video after the jump... more ›

It's been four months since a 20-year-old brat named Guo Meimei blindsided the China Red Cross in a huge embroiling scandal, yet the repercussions are still being felt as the Red Cross Beijing today reported that they are facing an urgent shortage on all kinds of blood in the city. more ›

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Even as China continues to keep the lid on low-cost carriers, foreign budget airlines are prying the door open slowly but surely. Here's some good news for readers living up north in the capital: Beijing has become Qantas offshoot Jetstar's tenth destination in China with the launch of the budget airline's Beijing-Singapore-Melbourne flight, and the carrier plans to add two more Chinese cities this year to reach a total of 12. more ›

Nice video portrait of the Chinese capital by French journalist Jordan Pouille: more ›

Peter Foster of The Daily Telegraph breaks the story of a man who set himself on fire October 21 on Tiananmen Square, but the incident appeared nowhere in Chinese news media. Here's what happened according to a reader who witnessed the incident: more ›

"The whole procedure, up till today, every step has been illegal and unreasonable," Ai told Reuters in an interview, shortly after he had paid the bond. more ›

Chinese President Hu Jintao and other top party leaders went to the polls on November 8 to elect the people's representatives for their respective districts. As usual, state broadcaster CCTV's news bulletin Xinwen Lianbo was on hand to dutifully cover the president's every step. This time, however, it probably gave a little too much, or rather, too little away. more ›