All the things you'd want to do this Monday through Thursday. On the schedule this week: Local music/party producers/promoters Antidote turns 6 and throws a birthday bash at C's, Sugar throws a male underwear fashion show, and Duke plays the Chinese national basketball team. Read on (or check out our calendar) for more! more ›

A Taiwanese sporting goods brand had the brilliant idea that a crowd of 20 pantless Taiwanese models traipsing through Taipei subways could be a great way to market their "no pants day" campaign. Hmm, seems to have worked well so far. Video after the jump! more ›

Guangdong-based underwear company Jealousy International has been selling their Diana brand of underwear for years now. But to commemorate the anniversary of Princess Diana's death, they rolled out a new ad campaign featuring a half-naked Diana doppleganger playing a cello. Unfortunately, a British citizen was right there to capture it. more ›

Radical feminists, be prepared for this: a Guangzhou mall has hosted a competition to find out who could unclasp a group of women's bras the fastest using just one hand. Eight masked women stood on stage in bras and hot pants as competitors put their swiftest hand forward for the 1,000 RMB mall gift certificate prize. The contest has since been slammed for objectifying women, but a mall spokesman defended it, saying it promoted "underwear awareness" among men. In any case, it's perhaps ironic that the winner was a woman, who undid all eight bras in 21 seconds. more ›

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Any Brits walking past the huge Marks & Spencer store on Nanjing Xi Lu (near Wujiang Lu) have spent the last few weeks dreaming of the clothes, accessories and food (but not weather) that they miss from back home. more ›

Since making a Snake Plissken-style escape from Pudong, the Puxi landmark that has inexorably drawn our eye as we survey the okay-for-the price view from our garret hasn't been the Sauronesque spire of the Marriott, nor the guy who does his Ghost Dog workout on the roof opposite each morning, but rather an advert for pants. Or "briefs" to those of you who've escaped the yoke of Queen Elizabeth II. Calvin Klein briefs, to be precise. more ›