Other people's misery always makes for an interesting story, and when poster Rong Rong started blogging live updates on Tianya about his embarrassing adventures with high school classmate Xiao Yue Yue the online world went crazy tracking her debauchery. more ›

The secret is out and her fifteen minutes are up: yesterday, Global Voices and ESWN reported that Wang Zifei (王紫菲), more commonly known as the 'Obama girl' who sat behind the US President when he delivered his speech at Shanghai's town hall, was in fact the subject of an online hoax. The story behind her overnight transition to celebrity status: her boyfriend had actually paid 100,000RMB to hire a Beijing Internet promotional strategy company to take advantage of Obama's speech and create what became the ‘Obama girl.' more ›

Well, according to Indonesian media he is, but in reality, though, Jay Chou is doing just fine. News sources claimed that the Taiwanese pop singer had died of a drug overdose, but his record label quickly dispelled the rumors: he's just in America filming "The Green Hornet." It's not the first time that Jay Chou has supposedly died: in 2004, a Chinese website claimed that he had been run over by a truck, but that obviously wasn't true either. This attempt wasn't any more convincing: though we love him, we know deep down that Jay Chou is definitely not of death-from-overdose musician status. Shanghaiist's prediction for the next Jay Chou death hoax: death by green hornet sting. more ›