CNN's John Vause says he's lost 10 pounds in recent weeks as reports of tainted food have come out in China. more ›

GigShanghai: Swedes, condoms and the Ministry of Culture more ›

Mobile phone madness more ›

GigShanghai: A blues messianic, Recycled music, nose fetishes more ›

After Wired ran a story documenting the GoogleCenter of the United States a bunch of ists jumped on the opportunity to figure out their own middle. Gothamist, Chicagoist, Bostonist and Seattlest all zoomed in on their creamy GoogleCenters. A crack cartography team is hard at work determining the GoogleCenter of the Ist-a-verse as you read this... more ›

While blizzards continue to threaten some 200,000 people in Xinjiang, China released the official death toll for natural disasters in 2005: more ›

Strumming her banjo and singing in English and Chinese, Abigail Washburn performed traditional American music last night at the Cotton Club with three esteemed bandmates. Playing a mix of bluegrass, country, gospel and old-time music, the former Beijing resident was joined by eight-time Grammy winner Béla Fleck who is considered the best banjo player in the world. With Casey Driessen on the fiddle and Ben Sollee on the cello, the packed club audience enjoyed a musical treat of a quality rarely found in Shanghai. more ›

explore the matter further to see if this vocabulary breakdown is a worldwide phenomenon … but suspects it may be confined to America's sinophobic borders since a recent survey showed that most of the world prefers China to America these days. more ›