Our good friend Yang Rui will probably not like to hear this but a draft guideline being proposed by the State Council that will seek the OK for foreigners to legally work in posts involving China's state secrets. They will, however, first have to be approved by central or local government agencies. more ›

Oleg Vedernikov, the principal cellist of the Beijing Symphony Orchestra and arguably the most famous Russian expat in China, is now officially jobless. The orchestra has decided to sack him for his "uncivilised behaviour" in an incident on a high-speed train headed from Shenyang to Beijing last week. more ›

Yang Rui (杨锐), the world's most widely watched Chinglish talkshow host and anchor of CCTV News' Monologue Dialogue, has, in his latest statement to Josh Chin of the Wall Street Journal, attempted to walk back some of his more incendiary remarks made against foreigners in China. more ›

"The Public Security Bureau wants to clean out the foreign trash: To arrest foreign thugs and protect innocent girls, they need to concentrate on the disaster zones in [student district] Wudaokou and [drinking district] Sanlitun. Cut off the foreign snake heads. People who can’t find jobs in the U.S. and Europe come to China to grab our money, engage in human trafficking and spread deceitful lies to encourage emigration. Foreign spies seek out Chinese girls to mask their espionage and pretend to be tourists while compiling maps and GPS data for Japan, Korea and the West. We kicked out that foreign bitch and closed Al-Jazeera’s Beijing bureau. We should shut up those who demonize China and send them packing." more ›

Douchebag laowai cellist Oleg Vedernikov has succumbed to the intense media scrutiny on his and his employer, the Beijing Symphony Orchestra, and recorded the following apology on video. In it he said, in Russian: 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 ›

Beijing police may have just launched a 100-day crackdown against illegal foreigners, but here in Shanghai, three so-called "Foreigners Service Centers" have opened in Minhang district. They aim to help facilitate foreigners' residence, employment registration and visa applications, according to Shanghai 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 ›

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 ›

China state-owned media is once again reporting a crackdown on foreigners who live, work and travel the country without the proper credentials. more ›

From Journeyman Pictures comes this thoroughly thoughtful documentary treatise on the recent debate on the right of abode of foreign domestic helpers in Hong Kong, one that puts a human face on the 300,000 mostly Filipina and Indonesian women working in the territory as maids. more ›

Eric Fish of Sinostand shares us with a recent experience of a biking trip through the Shandong countryside which may suggest that China is stepping up surveillance of hotels on foreigners in smaller towns and cities: more ›

A Nigerian scammer was slapped with a 6-year prison sentence by the Shanghai No.1 Intermediate People's Court for fraud amounting to over US$265,000 yesterday. more ›

The fiance of Wu Yidian Eden, the Singaporean associate director at Standard Chartered's private banking business who was recently detained, has written an account of his time in Wuxi yesterday, where he tried to see his wife-to-be. Wu's parents were allowed to meet with her, but he was not. Local police, as it turns out, are unhappy that he has been talking to the press and writing about the case on his blog, and they want to shut him up. Tan walked away from a potential meeting with his wife after local police said they would allow him to see her only if he agreed to stop talking to the media. We're reposting his account here with his permission: more ›

A China-born Singaporean associate director at Standard Chartered's private banking business has been detained by authorities in Shanghai and transferred some 125km away to the city of Wuxi in Jiangsu province. more ›

A district court has rejected an appeal by a Middle Eastern expatriate who tried to seek insurance compensation after a hit-and-run accident, according to Shanghai Daily. more ›

The Shanghai Daily reports that Pizza Marzano was fined the steep haircut of 47,500RMB for violating advertising laws in China. The Shanghai Industrial and Commercial Administration ruled Pizza Marzano had hurt the feelings of Chinese people™ by listing "French Concession" as their address in promotional material, a term now newly politicized in a year already fraught with political tension. more ›

The expat China experience has been memeified! Western pop culture entities of humorous connotation have been employed by enterprising internet-savvy persons to create these little nuggets of comical material. more ›

In the latest survey regarding the cost of living for expats, Shanghai has been ranked as the 42nd most expensive city in the world, tied with Los Angeles and Moscow. The number one spot went to Zurich, which has displaced Tokyo following the strengthening of the Swiss Franc. more ›

Shanghai Calling is movie about American expats falling in love in Shanghai. Yes, really. Plenty of cringe potential, but in the end it's hard not to watch a movie that's about your own exact life choices. more ›

Huzzah, more good news for expats working in Shanghai! The local authorities are currently working on new policies to grant longer valid visas for foreign nationals working for multinational corporations. more ›

Yes, yes, we know everyone's tired of the meme already. But Shanghai laowais have finally made their own contribution to the meme and we thought it was a pretty good effort! more ›

Last week, we told you about the visa and financial problems that Shanghai Rego International School was reportedly experiencing. Things are just about to get worse for them because district authorities have refused to continue leasing land to it. This means the school will have to move elsewhere within the city when its current lease is up January 2013. more ›

Nicholas English of City Weekend posed as a parent and walked straight into a parent-teacher meeting Wednesday night at Shanghai Rego International School’s Minhang campus. Teachers at the school, he found, were not here on proper work visas, and the school was having trouble paying them on time: more ›

Shanghai police have begun investigating the case of Ryan Fedoruk, the Canadian scammer and fake landlord who sublet 30 apartments to 80 tenants before fleeing with RMB300,000, after Eva Gao, the local lawyer who is providing victims with legal aid, handed over statements by 45 people who say they have been swindled by Fedoruk. Shanghai PSB's economic crime investigation department said it would investigate the whereabouts of the man after they were done looking through the statements. more ›

Lots of foreign scammers milling about in Shanghai doing their thing these days, it seems. First there was Ryan Fedoruk, the Canadian fake landlord who sublet 30 apartments to 80 tenants before fleeing with RMB300,000. And then yesterday, a Nigerian man was charged at the Shanghai No.1 Intermediate People's Court.for concealing criminal income totaling more than US$265,000, according to the Shanghai Daily: more ›

A popular American English teacher has been helped out with her medical bills by her students and former colleauges at Xiamen University, after she made notice her struggle with Parkinson was financially and mentally engraving on her too heavily. more ›