Looking ever so epic and Gandhi-esque, The Lady traces the story of Nobel Peace Prize (aka Hideous Norwegian Insult to Chinese Sovereignty Prize) winner Aung San Suu Kyi, and her struggle to bring democracy to Myanmar in the face of the country's military junta. more ›

• The BBC, long blocked by Chinese web censors, appears to be following in Google's footsteps regarding the internet in China. Shanghaiist finds foreign news organizations self censoring more disturbing than search engines. Who is next?
• Wu Xianghu, the deputy editor of the Taizhou Evening News, "died of liver and kidney failure after he was severely beaten by police enraged by reports in his newspaper about their work." He was 41. ESWN has photos of the attack. Taizhou is in Zhejiang province.
• Another way of looking at coal mine accident stats in China.

The Nicole Kidman/Wong Kar-Wai project The Lady From Shanghai, which reportedly will shoot in Shanghai, won't get off the ground until after Chinese New Year. Wong still needs to "complete the script, pick locations and finalise Kidman's insurance." Originally, filming was supposed to begin late last year. Now reports have filming taking place in "northern China," so maybe Shanghai won't play a role in the movie after all. (Although it sure feels like we are living in northern China of late. Brrrrrrrr.) more ›

Xinhua has reproduced a story from CRIEnglish.com, making us wonder whether Tom and Nicole will be in Shanghai at the same time: more ›