According to MIC Gadget, these photos were found on a Chinese online store and show off the frong LCD and bezel of the upcoming iteration of the iPod Touch (4th generation). more ›

Peter Guo (郭宝峰), a self-described "troublemaker in Amoy (Xiamen)" experienced what everyone who Twitters or blogs in China is not-so-secretly afraid of - one of his blog posts got him in trouble with the police, who threw him in jail. He was one of as many as seven bloggers who were detained after writing about a 25-year-old woman, Yan Xiaoling, who had allegedly been gang-raped and murdered by someone connected to local authorities in Fujian. Guo's crime: reposting something that had already been put on a BBS in Fujian Province, titled "Yan Xiaoling (嚴曉玲) much more miserable than Deng Yujiao (鄧玉嬌)." Deng Yujiao is a waitress turned national heroine who became famous for stabbing an official who may have sexually assaulted her. He then posted a video he had found, completely unedited, in which Yan Xiaoling's mother accused local authorities of trying to cover up the case. more ›

We've heard that the iTunes app store can sometimes be strangely stringent about what type of applications get to be sold there - so we're surprised that this one made the cut. Stuck Pixel's Cute Asian Girls app gives you hundreds of photos of pretty Asian girls in various poses for an introductory price of 99 cents (roughly 6 RMB). more ›

Apple began selling refurbished products in China on Tuesday, offering discounts of up to 22 percent for consumers willing to get second-hand goods. The products on Apple's Chinese website ranged from 308 yuan for a shuffle to 14,000 yuan for an iMac. Ah, the magical circle of product life: Good gets made in China, sold in the U.S., broken in the U.S. and sold back to China. Source: Reuters more ›