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 ›

We've been updating you with the latest on China's battle against internet pornography, but here's some good old Shanghai Daily reportage on our upstanding city's efforts against e-smut, particularly the type that drops right into the palm of your hand. Over the course of the past year, Shanghai has blocked nearly 1,900 mobile porn sites in an effort to clean up the country's new (and poorly censored) 3G networks. Some mobile customers have complained of receiving up to ten anonymous solicitations a day directing them to mobile porn, to which we say "oh, so that's what those text messages were about." more ›

Police have succeeded in breaking records for confiscating more counterfeit money than ever before. Since the crackdown was announced in January, over 280 people have been arrested, 190 cases involving counterfeit money have been cracked, and over 1 billion yuan has been confiscated. more ›