I love it when Chinese netizens get creative with language - and this time, they're using English. Sinosplice pointed out a list of "creative English (words) with Chinese characteristics" - basically phrases and words altered slightly to give them a new Chinacentric meaning. For instance, smilence: when you ask a question and all a Chinese person does is smile silently. Or Innernet: a GFWed computer network. Or, a little more morbidly, suihide, where you kill yourself by playing a hide-and-seek game ala that prisoner who died in Yunnan last year. Check out more here more ›

We're not sure Bai Ling's latest lady parts on display counts as news, given the fact that her private parts are more well-publicized than she is. But, combine the Bai-sexual actress' escapades with Zhang Ziyi's body double's web-search for love; add the biggest dick in China; and throw in a PRC plug for "sexy famous models... touching each other," and we'll take the bait. more ›

The recent hoopla over poisonous, tainted, and otherwise malignant Chinese exports — toothpaste, toys, and pet food, oh my! — has left us with an unpleasant taste in our mouths (and not just the minty-fresh kind). Industrial malfeasance has become the bane of Chinese commerce, and we have no intention of downplaying the unique brand of terror experienced by a parent who realizes he just gave his kid a lead-addled plaything. more ›

Our weekly round-up of some of the highlights from China's English-language blogosphere: more ›

The story goes on to reveal that Baidu has a network of "200 different distributors who in turn farm out the others" to sell keywords for search advertising: more ›

Even as the ladies rush to be registered as descendants of Confucius, and as churches -- both state-sanctioned and underground -- continue to swell and burst through the seams all across the land, China is becoming the most unlikely birthplace of progressive Islam, if this highly enlightening Asia Times article entitled "Islam with Chinese Characteristics" is anything to go by. more ›

According to ChinaTechNews.com, Zhang Baoquan, president of real estate giant the Jindian Group has said his company will invest RMB 3 billion ($362 million) in the "coming years" to open 200,000 digital EVD theaters in China. Shanghai will be the testing grounds with eight to 25 -- kind of a big range -- EVD theaters. The China Film Corporation and Huaxia Film will also be involved, the three-sentence "story" said. Other published reports showed that something called the Polly Culture Group is part of the plan, as well. more ›