Here, Shanghai, were your favourite stories for the month of February: Most Voted: 1. Edison Chen, Bobo Chan, Gillian Chung and Cecilia Cheung embroiled in Hong Kong's biggest sex photo scandal ever 2. The Edison Chen sex scandal rages on with more pictures released by mystery man 3. Jolin Tsai, Maggie Q, Vincey Yeung sucked into Edison Chen scandal; Gillian Chung admits involvement 4. ShanghaiExpat.com reported to the Shanghai internet police? 5. From Hong Kong......

Jolin Tsai (蔡依林) has been in the news quite a bit lately, and for all the wrong reasons. Last week, pictures of a woman with an uncanny resemblance to her surfaced during the Edison Chen scandal and this time, she refers to Hong Kong as a foreign country (国外), and talks of how she wants to gain glory for the people of Taiwan (“为台湾人争光"). Her Chinese fans are not finding it funny, and she is......

WARNING: If you are sick and tired of reading about Edison Chen's private parts ... stop reading now! Yesterday, the man finally returned to Hong Kong to host a long-awaited press conference with 300 journalists. He admitted that the photos were taken by him and stolen from his computer, and also apologised to the women involved in the scandal, as well as their families. More shocking was his announcement that he will leave showbiz. Here......

BAIDU RAPPED FOR SPREADING THE PICTURES; CHINESE COPS ARREST 10 SUSPECTS IN SHENZHEN We told you in an earlier story how Baidu, China's most popular search engine, was making it oh-so-easy for everyone to find pictures of Edison Chen engaged in naughty activities with various Hong Kong starlets. Conduct a Baidu search for Edison Chen's Chinese name "陈冠希", and Baidu will offer up automatic related keyword searches for "Edison Chen Sex-Photo-Gate", "Edison Chen Gillian Chung......

So much has happened since our last post on the Edison Chen photo scandal that it is about time we updated you! First, the Edison Chen saga has caught the attention of CNN. The Chinese-speaking world has never been as enraptured in a scandal as this, and its scale and magnitude is threatening to make Paris Hilton look very passé. Kristie Lu Stout reports: Yet more female celebrities have been sucked into the scandal with......

For Part 1 of this story, click HERE. Shanghaiist is hyperventilating. Just when we thought the worst was over, a new set of pics have surfaced. After looking through the pictures, we had to take a while to recover from the massive nasal haemorrhage we suffered before we could calm down ourselves enough to put this story together (oh how very self-sacrificial!). The surfacing of the new pictures are an embarrassment to the Hong Kong......

RELEASE OF PICTURES OF HONG KONG STARS IN THE NUDE IN VARIOUS COMPROMISING SITUATIONS SETS TONGUES WAGGING ACROSS ASIA WARNING: Images after the jump are NOT safe for work (unless you happen to be a blogger working from home) Hong Kong celebrities Edison Chen (陈冠希), Bobo Chan (陈文媛), Gillian Chung (钟欣桐) and Cecilia Cheung (张柏芝) are currently embroiled in an embarrassing sex photo scandal that has whipped up a storm in the territory and the......

Probably not the best word choice by Xinhua for their headline, but they do list the highest-paid Chinese actresses, based on annual salary (they say their source was cfi.net.cn). Here's the list (figures in USD): Zhang Ziyi (pictured): 15 million Maggie Cheung: 13.75 million Gong Li: 11.3 million Carina Lau: 11.3 million Cecilia Cheung: 9.4 million Zhao Wei: 7 million Lin Xinru: 5.6 million Liu Xiaoqing: 4 million Hsu Chi: 3.6 million Zhou Xun: 1.9......

Shanghaiist was thinking about how to characterize a movie like this: We mulled over “worst movie we’ve ever seen,” and thought this too harsh, as there are probably loads of worse movies that we’ve seen but have repressed the memory of. And we hope the same happens with this movie. The ensemble includes Hong Kong starlet Cecilia Cheung (Zhang Baizhi), Hu Ge, and most importantly, the cinematic debut of Super Voice Girl No. 2 Zhou......

A bored Henan man living in Shanghai threatened to bomb the Oriental Pearl Tower. Only 12 people read the post before it was deleted by authorities. He faces up to five years in jail.From People's Daily: Speaking globally, the mainland's universities lag behind on aspects such as school facilities, faculty quality, campus culture and school structure, said Cai Dafeng, vice president of Shanghai-based Fudan University. At least they don't lag behind in anything important!What's next?......

We all have our list of favourite China blogs (just check the left hand panel for some), for example the clever and always-entertaining Wanbro. When feeling the need to brush up our Spanish skills, we love to check out Chinochano. The language is rarely complex (thankfully -- we really need to brush up our Spanish language skills), but even if you are not a cunning linguist then you will enjoy his latest excellent article, in......