Watch as an Australian morning anchor "shares a gag" with the Tibetan spiritual leader, and botches it completely. Pure gold. more ›

Satirical U.S. joke paper The Onion is, for a reason not quite clear yet, doing a China special. Maybe they caught on to all the recent coverage of Chinese companies buying up Western media and decided that it'd be a perfect time to do their own spoof - sans any sensitive anniversaries or other events that would normally set off a decidedly humorless notice from the office of Qin Gang. more ›

The folks at ChinaTravel.net noticed a little (or perhaps not so little) something about a recent image of Haibao: more ›

Last month the Fashion & Style section of The New York Times published Riding the It Factor, putting forward the Dutch bicycle as the new fashionable "It object" on the New York streets in these times of "Great Downturn." more ›

A Chinese character has finally been created for the new equine breed -- caonima (草泥马) or "grass mud horse" -- that's been galloping amok on the Chinese interwebs much to the chagrin of the Net Nanny. The 艹 radical refers to 'grass' (草), 尼resembles泥 and both are homophones, while 马is the character for 'horse'. The new character even has a recommended pronunciation -- Jia4 or Yu2. [h/t to Isaac Mao] more ›

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Get it on with Durex.
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"If there's a camel up a hill, then it's Gong Li with me, when I doooo, when I doooo... " more ›

This Chinese shepherd has found a novel way to both save money on a sheep dog and to keep his flock in line at the same time — by showing his flock a picture of a wolf! Ananova quotes a man from Xi'an by the name of Du Hebing who tells Huashang Daily he shot the picture by chance:

"After visiting Qinling Wild Animal Park, on the way home I saw a group of sheep walking along the road with a man holding a picture following behind them," he said. more ›

The made-in-China Bollywood film that we told you about 13 months ago is about to hit the big screen soon. Earlier known as Made in China and Mera Naam Chin Chin Choo, the film Chandni Chowk¹ to China which combines Bollywood dancing with kung fu, and Hindi actors with Mainland Chinese ones will debut worldwide on 16 Jan 2009 starring Akshay Kumar, Deepika Padukone, Mithun Chakraborty and Hong Kong martial arts film veteran Gordon Lau (劉家輝). This comedic cultural mashup looks like something we can all look forward to in our neighbourhood DVD store very soon. more ›

From Inaction Hero: "China's 'S&M' Enterprises Seek Innovation" more ›

In the latest Google Zeitgeist rankings which aggregates billions of search queries and ranks top search queries around the world, Edison Chen and Sarah Palin took top honours in China and the world respectively. The Beijing 2008 Olympics would have been the fastest rising search term hands down but was edged out by Edison Chen in the China category, and Sarah Palin in the Global category. more ›

Danwei points us to the funniest thing we've seen in a long while. We're not sure if this was actually produced for television or just the internet, but this infomercial for a Chinese magic pill which claims to help cure 快男 or "fast men" (a play on Hunan TV's "Super Boys" talent show) of male erectile dysfunction sho' cracked us up!
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A few instant gems from the clip:

"This is a testament to the progress of the Chinese people. Today we sent a man into space fully conscious, and without shackles." more ›

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Here's one shared by Tim Johnson of China Rises:

“At the closing ceremonies, International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge announces that the IOC has decided that the next Olympics will be held again in Beijing instead of London since the games were so successful. The news sends millions of Chinese into a faint. Even the doctors swoon. Only the police are strong enough to withstand the news, and they immediately shout in unison: “Go to hell, Rogge!”

Symptoms of the deadly Olympic fever now sweeping across China according to The Onion: High fever, large pus-filled blisters, bleeding eye sockets, difficulty breathing and an overwhelming urge to cheer athletes. From what we've seen in Beijing so far, it is highly contagious too ;-) more ›

The curious stares of onlookers at the public pool: PRICELESS more ›

Hilarious sh*t once again from our favourite news network — nearly, but not as good as this other report. more ›

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Share with us how you see Shanghai, or China! Post your photos on Flickr, tag them with "shanghaiist", and we'll select one favorite image per day. Or you can simply email your photos to photos at shanghaiist.com. more ›

... the Two Chinese Characters are here to help. Seriously, we've seen this cartoon sent around the Internet a million times, but we had no idea the logo of the Beijing Olympics was meant to be a stylised form of the character for "jing" (京). more ›

Kristen Schaal unveils the new Chinese Olympic mascots on The Daily Show. We thought some bits of the clip were kinda lame, but it still made us laugh, and it's a great time-waster for those of you bored in the office right now. more ›

A Saturday time-waster brought to you by The Onion more ›

From Slate V: more ›

people have chosen it as their mother tongue?" more ›

We were hoping that they were going to do one of those double episode things and release episodes 11 and 12 of Prison Break at the same time. We had just finished watching episode 11 on a video site and were looking for episode 12, and found this site, which said it had it . more ›

So if you’ve ever fancied travelling from I’m a hot dashing dinosaur (Shanghai Indoor Stadium) to Thoroughly Hawaiian Satanists (Shanghai South Railway Station) to Drab Penguin (Nanpu Bridge) now is your chance! more ›

Poor, poor Sania Mirza. The 22 year old Indian tennis starlet (and world number 31 on the current charts) was caught exposing her cleavage — the one below her waist, that is — on Shanghai Daily, of all places. The unflattering picture appeared on page A14 of the sports section in yesterday's paper. Hat tip to Chris St. Cavish of SH Mag, who we presume was flipping through the papers in search of the latest gastronomic delights to write about. more ›

Strange, strange, just strange. And he looked like he was going to either piss/wank at the man before getting stopped by the woman (his wife?). more ›