And finally -- yet another chapter of the Chen Guangcheng saga comes to a close. The blind activist and self-taught lawyer left Beijing's Capital Airport yesterday at about 7pm with his wife and two children on a 13-hour flight to Newark. more ›

Yesterday's douchebag laowai on the train has quickly overtaken last week's British rapist to become Laowai Public Enemy #1 after netizens identified him as Oleg Vedernikov (奥列克·维捷尔尼科夫 / Олег Ветреников), the principal cellist of the Beijing Symphony Orchestra. more ›

A video now going viral on iFeng.com shows a white blonde male putting his feet over the seat before him and a Chinese female passenger's head on a train from Shenyang to Beijing. It is not clear what happened before the start of this video, but the woman was clearly irritated by the man's behavior. She stood up, turned around, and hit the man's feet with a magazine, saying "you are a big shame to your country." ("你真给你国家丢人") more ›

Paul Luyeye and Martha Makuena, the Congolese proprietors of China's first authentic African hair salon located in Beijing speak to China Daily. more ›

Just a week after a video of a British tourist sexually assaulting a Chinese woman in public went viral on the Internet, Beijing has begun a 100-day crackdown on foreigners residing and working illegally in the capital. more ›

Beijing-based investor Duncan Clark speaks to Australian Network News on the question of whether China could some day rival Silicon Valley. more ›

So much for those "Good Samaritan" laowai. Footage of a British tourist sexually assaulting a Chinese woman in a Beijing public scene hit the Web this week, igniting a firestorm of anti-Laowai hysteria in the Weibo-sphere and beyond. more ›

Beijing has given a whole new meaning to the word “heritage” - just recently, the government pledged to build replicas of some former city wall gates, which were all demolished in the 1950s. This situation is eerily similar to that of the Qianmen district, which Chinese property developer SOHO demolished substantial sections of in 2006, and then rebuilt as a bougie cultural quarter, much to the outrage of local Beijingers. more ›

Her piano riff inferno and head banged red hair illuminate it all. Max Harman's scorching onstage passion proves she's a front lady refusing to fizzle out or fade away. The same can be said for her band mates in The On Fires, an Australian hard rock troupe that blazed their way across China with smoldering shows in Beijing, Shanghai, Wuhan, and several other locales last year. more ›

Talk about some damning evidence. A photo gallery posted by PAS China on Flickr shows blind lawyer/Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng arriving at the US Embassy earlier this week. In the photos, Chen is seen smiling and, at one point, embracing US Ambassador Gary Locke. Later pictures show him being reunited with his family at the Chaoyang Hospital, with US officials standing in the background. more ›

"China is like Hollywood in the 1920s. We’re all wondering which one of these big Chinese and China joint-venture companies forming is going to have the right a management. How else will China find its way?” more ›

It's not been a good week for Chinese women in Western media. First this poor pensioner failed spectacularly in her attempt to alleviate stress, and now a woman in Beijing has gone and given fuel to the female/Chinese driver stereotypes. Apparently she smashed through a bush and a lamppost before claiming her free car wash because she accelerated 'a bit' too hard. more ›

It looks like 酒肉和尚 (monks who consume wine and meat) do exist after all. Two men impersonating as "monks" caused widespread outrage amongst Buddhist and non-Buddhists alike when they were seeing horsing around with women and drinking alcohol. more ›

From Guinness World Records: "The attempt in this video, shot for Chinese television failed, due to the tower falling. The current record stands at 6 people on top of each others shoulders and was performed by the Fuyong Acrobatic Arts Group of Bao An District (all China) on the set of Zheng Da Zong Yi - Guinness World Records Special in Beijing, China, on 18 September 2007." more ›

After rumours regarding an attempted coup in Beijing lead to restrictions on microblogging sites and arrests, Nanfang Daily (the same publication which ran a 'news story' on pictures of drunk foreign girls passed out) has called on the public to "bravely say no to rumours." more ›

A woman in Beijing is now in critical condition, with 90% of her skin deeply burned after she fell into hot water beneath the pavement when the road suddenly collapsed, according to Beijing News. more ›

Three Chinese cities -- Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing -- have come in among the world's top ten cities for global high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs), according to the results of a sentiment survey conducted among Citi Private Bank's wealth advisors and Knight Frank's luxury property specialists. more ›

Wow. Looks like Apple CEO Tim Cook is here to do some serious networking on his first trip to China. On Tuesday, Cook met with Li Keqiang, the man widely believed to be the next Prime Minister of China after Wen Jiabao finishes his term. more ›

Apple CEO Tim Cook recently visited Beijing's flagship store and met with officials to reportedly discuss expansion in China, Apple's second largest consumer base and the globe's biggest mobile market. more ›

The British were able to appoint a Governor General without asking what Hong Kongers thought of it, and nobody in Hong Kong had any reaction. Now, although the Central Government would have some influence, there is an election anyway. But the Hong Kongers are always complaining and protesting. Why? Why are we always doing things that nobody appreciates? more ›

Images of tanks and military vehicles moving along Beijing's Changan Avenue have given rise to rumours of a coup taking place. Bill Gertz of the Washington Times with a quick roundup of what's been happening online: more ›

A car crash on Sunday in Beijing's Haidian district near Baofu Temple in which the driver of the Ferrari died and two female passengers were injured has led to widespread speculation over the identity of the driver and the blocking of the keyword "Ferrari" on Chinese social networks. more ›

Of the more than 500 couples who queued up last month on Valentine's Day at Beijing's Chaoyang district marriage registration centre on to get hitched, two couples were turned down by centre officials and walked away without marriage licenses. The two same-sex couples -- one male, and one female -- had shown up at the marriage office as part of a campaign by the Beijing LGBT Centre to drum up support for gay marriage in China. Online TV series Queer Comrades was there to catch the action. more ›

Shi Xiaohong, a fortysomething woman apparently born in the 1960's, decided to shake off the doldrums of the everyday by dropping trou to give an impromptu pole dancing demonstration on Line 9 of the Shanghai metro. more ›

Midweek Music Preview is our weekly rundown of everything happening on stages across the city. This week we've got a jam packed schedule with Death Cab for Cutie coming to Shanghai for the JUE festival, some musical talent from Beijing, and Duck Fight Goose's last show before they head off to Austin for SXSW! more ›

Really now, what could be more nutritional for your brain than eating an actual brain? Locals in Beijing spotted a rhesus monkey around Dongdan Park last week and promptly gave chase to the animal, which eventually scampered up a tree to avoid being eaten. more ›

Delegates from all corners of the People's Republic have gathered in Beijing for the "Two Sessions" (ie., the National People's Congress and Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference), but aside from some ridiculous things that delegates are bound to say from time to time, there's really little else for the average unpolitically-minded person to look at. So netizens have trained their eyes instead on some of the expensive gear that delegates have shown up in to see what's in this season. more ›

The image is a satellite map from Cross Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review that pinpoints a series of garbage dumps that encircle the city of Beijing, in what's been affectionately dubbed the '7th Ring' by photographer Wang Jiuliang. more ›