digg_url = 'http://digg.com/people/Kappa_Girl_sex_scandal_in_Shanghai_China'; A 12 minute long sex video of a female employee working at the Kappa store in the east building of the Shanghai No.1 Department Store on Nanjing Lu has recently been spreading like wildfire on the Chinese internet via Bittorrent and the Chinese peer-to-peer application Xunlei, catapulting the search term 'Kappa女' (or "Kappa Girl") into one of the top ten search terms on Google China and unleashing a 'human flesh search......

Reuters reports that the use of melamine is "rampant among farmers and feed-ingredient manufacturers". The words of Sun Erwu,a feedmill owner in Hebei province, which is at the centre of the milk powder scandal, are enough to send tingles down our spine, and raise questions over what is happening to the entire food chain in China:"It is like a chain... If cows are fed with poor feed and produce lower-protein milk, dairy plants will not......

Welcome to the latest episode of Chinese Soundbites, a podcast series brought to you by ChinesePod and Shanghaiist. Every week we'll be bringing you topics and words pulled straight from the headlines, in Mandarin Chinese. Unless you happen to work for Lehman Brothers, the biggest story in China this week has been about melamine, a fun little chemical first discovered in Sanlu infant formula and then in dairy products from pretty much all of China's......

Sam Flemming, founder of the Internet word-of-mouth research firm CIC Data observes in his latest blog entry that while some of the brands that had used the stars involved in the Edison Chen sex photo scandal as spokespeople were scrambling for help (by calling up his company of course) when the scandal broke out, some netizens were “more interested in the brands in the background of the photos than the people themselves". He points us......

One of the first sport scandal stories of 2008 was an on court fight involving current world number one men’s badminton player Lin Dan. The Badminton World Federation investigated and have released a statement to conclude. In the Korean Open men’s singles final, Lin Dan became angry following several line calls going the way of local opponent Lee Hyun Il. The tension spilled over into incident when Lee’s coach Li Mao, also Chinese, commented to......

WARNING: If you are sick and tired of reading about Edison Chen's private parts ... stop reading now! Yesterday, the man finally returned to Hong Kong to host a long-awaited press conference with 300 journalists. He admitted that the photos were taken by him and stolen from his computer, and also apologised to the women involved in the scandal, as well as their families. More shocking was his announcement that he will leave showbiz. Here......

Al-Jazeera has followed up on the Yilishen ant farming incident, a massive investment scandal that conned thousands of Chinese (and as many as one million by some reports) out of their life savings. He also got into some trouble with the local police while on location at Yilishen's now-vacant office building. Four years ago, Yilishen got into trouble with the US Food and Drug Administration for selling "dietary supplements" that included Sildenafil, the active drug......

BAIDU RAPPED FOR SPREADING THE PICTURES; CHINESE COPS ARREST 10 SUSPECTS IN SHENZHEN We told you in an earlier story how Baidu, China's most popular search engine, was making it oh-so-easy for everyone to find pictures of Edison Chen engaged in naughty activities with various Hong Kong starlets. Conduct a Baidu search for Edison Chen's Chinese name "陈冠希", and Baidu will offer up automatic related keyword searches for "Edison Chen Sex-Photo-Gate", "Edison Chen Gillian Chung......

So much has happened since our last post on the Edison Chen photo scandal that it is about time we updated you! First, the Edison Chen saga has caught the attention of CNN. The Chinese-speaking world has never been as enraptured in a scandal as this, and its scale and magnitude is threatening to make Paris Hilton look very passé. Kristie Lu Stout reports: Yet more female celebrities have been sucked into the scandal with......

For Part 1 of this story, click HERE. Shanghaiist is hyperventilating. Just when we thought the worst was over, a new set of pics have surfaced. After looking through the pictures, we had to take a while to recover from the massive nasal haemorrhage we suffered before we could calm down ourselves enough to put this story together (oh how very self-sacrificial!). The surfacing of the new pictures are an embarrassment to the Hong Kong......

RELEASE OF PICTURES OF HONG KONG STARS IN THE NUDE IN VARIOUS COMPROMISING SITUATIONS SETS TONGUES WAGGING ACROSS ASIA WARNING: Images after the jump are NOT safe for work (unless you happen to be a blogger working from home) Hong Kong celebrities Edison Chen (陈冠希), Bobo Chan (陈文媛), Gillian Chung (钟欣桐) and Cecilia Cheung (张柏芝) are currently embroiled in an embarrassing sex photo scandal that has whipped up a storm in the territory and the......