If anyone is keeping count, go on and add another tally under "mishaps between Google and China." Google officials announced today that hundreds of Gmail accounts were recently hijacked by hackers, primarily victimizing U.S. government officials, Chinese political activists, officials in other Asian countries, military personnel, journalists and others. more ›

Above: Art students crammed into an exhibition hall in Jinan on February 14 for the start of the 2011 yikao season. [Note: yikao is short for yishu gaokao, and is the national college entrance examinations for art students.] more ›

Was it the intense media spotlight? Or did someone just have a change of heart? Whatever the case, the prayers of the Seventh Day Adventists in Jinan that we told you about earlier have paid off because on May 1st the local congregation held its first indoor meeting since they were forcibly evicted from their premises on 27th February. more ›

On the night of the incident, at around 18:30, Zhang Chong ran in the National Games men’s 400-meter hurdles final and won fifth place with the time of 51’63”. For a young athlete debuting in national games for the first time, Zhang Chong was still very excited after the game. After leaving the venue, Zhang Chong returned to Jinan Olympic athletes warm-up field where Liu Xiang was warming up on the runway. more ›

We've caught ourselves thinking about the difficulties of being disabled in China on many occasions: a significant amount of city spaces and public transport are simply handicapped-unfriendly. Besides the occasional beggar, you rarely see disabled people in public, which is probably thanks to the many social factors constraining handicapped people. But at a very basic level, it's more troubling to think of the difficulties a set of stairs are for someone incapable of using them and the effect it would have on both their ability to travel and their quality of life. more ›