Well it was in 1967, anyway. Courtesy of Popsucker, here's a 41-year-old ad from the Rice Council of America that's about as un-PC as you can get. And, really, we have our doubts that the pictured serving of rice topped with butter is going to have the desired slimming effect based on the plate's other contents, or lack thereof. You may also also enjoy this other 1960s rice ad which makes up for what it......

We know that this sounds like an April fool, but China could be facing a rice shortage. No, seriously. We told you a few days ago about KFC upping their prices; now the cost of the other staple in Shanghaiist's diet, rice, could be facing a hike due to fears over supply. For the moment, the government has frozen the price of rice — as well as that of other goods such as cooking oil......

In an unexpected turn of events, China has announced that is willing to throw face to the wind and reenter human rights talks with the USA. ``The Chinese side is willing to keep contact with the U.S. in all areas,'' Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said today at the end of a Beijing press conference with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, neither elaborating nor giving her the chance to respond. ``We're ready to resume......

Photograph of the Trump Soho by Riccardo Sinti Gothamist went to the scene of the Trump Soho construction collapse, which left one construction worker dead and others injured (an indirect culprit - Manhattan's hot real estate market, causing rushed construction jobs).Shanghaiist is confused by media reports as to whether Playboy will be available in China during the year of the Olympics.LAist got fugged in an interview with the Go Fug Yourself girls.Torontoist set hearts......

Or more like who won't be performing. We've already told you about Live Earth, Al Gore's 24-hour, 7-continent series of concerts on 7/7/07. Well, lists of performers at different venues (cities participating are: East Rutherford, New Jersey [near New York]; London; Rio de Janeiro; Maropeng [near Johannesburg]; Tokyo; Shanghai; and Sydney) are starting to be announced. First up, the US and the UK. Here's who will be playing at Wembley Stadium in London: Beastie Boys,......

An organization called the International Wine Culture Promotion Association -- which apparently has had 578 visits to its website -- really wants China to take up wine drinking, so much so that they are "donating" 100,000 wine cellars to middle class China. In alcoholism parlance, they would be known as an enabler. From Xinhua: The first 20,000 cellars are earmarked for Beijing and Shanghai and recipients are being actively sought, Thompson said. Recipients of the......

For many Americans (and American sympathizers), August is a month for back to school shopping and spending the last weeks of summer vacation with your family preparing for your fantasy football draft. We forgot to do that, and our draft drafted over the weekend, so we were scouring the waiver wire today. One name jumped out at us: Sinorice Moss. Sino. Rice. Sinorice. If anyone can make American football popular in China, it's a guy......

Talks of population growth and sustainability inevitably lead to one fundamental question: Can we house and feed the world's growing population? One look at the ticker in the upper-right hand corner of the International Rice Research Institute's home page paints a dismal picture indeed. It is estimated that China produces 35 percent of the rice consumed across the globe every year, but a focus on economic development and industrialization has reduced the amount of arable......

Today's Morning Post was disappointing, but the front page of the Metro Express alone was a treasure trove of notable tidbits: 网上扬言攻击政府被依法逮捕（本市警方破获多起利用网络散布虚假、恐怖信息案件）The police give examples of people who were recently fined or jailed for using the internet to: issue death threats against government workers, incite workers to strike, and create pictures that are critical of the government. They remind the readers to be civilized users of the internet, according to the published law. 珠江口两高速客轮相撞145人全部获救(Pictorial) Two......