Via AFP: " Traditionally known as a centre of banking and finance, Hong Kong is fast emerging as a centre of the Asian art world. And with stock markets in turmoil, investors are increasingly looking at art." more ›

Blind activist and self-taught lawyer Chen Guangcheng gives his first in-depth television interview to Anderson Cooper." more ›

Via Russia Today: "Surveillance camera captured images of a three year old boy riding his toy scooter at a rush hour on a busy road in the city of Wenzhou in Eastern China. After narrowly avoiding being crushed by several vehicles, the boy was spotted by a policeman who reacted quickly and whisked him to safety. Apparently he was in the care of his grandfather, who had gone to the toilet at the time of the incident. The policeman brought the boy back to his grandfather who had rushed out to find him." more ›

You know you've made it in life when those guys from Next Media Animation devote an entire episode to you. Congratulations Yang Rui! For more NMA hilarity, click here. more ›

Al-Jazeera's Melissa Chan, whose press visa was recently revoked by Chinese authorities, in comments made on the latest edition of Listening Post which takes a look China's new media and soft power strategy: "This is the first expulsion in more than a decade. So I think to look into it as the beginning of any kind of a pattern or shift would be premature. But there is a Chinese saying that you "kill the chickens to scare the monkeys" and in this case I may have been the sacrificial chicken to warn other foreign journalists from looking at sensitive stories." more ›

After leaving Beijing's Capital Airport Saturday evening with his wife and two children, blind dissident and self-taught lawyer Chen Guangcheng has touched down at Newark-Liberty International Airport and headed straight for New York University. more ›

And finally -- yet another chapter of the Chen Guangcheng saga comes to a close. The blind activist and self-taught lawyer left Beijing's Capital Airport yesterday at about 7pm with his wife and two children on a 13-hour flight to Newark. more ›

Douchebag laowai cellist Oleg Vedernikov has succumbed to the intense media scrutiny on his and his employer, the Beijing Symphony Orchestra, and recorded the following apology on video. In it he said, in Russian: more ›

Yesterday's douchebag laowai on the train has quickly overtaken last week's British rapist to become Laowai Public Enemy #1 after netizens identified him as Oleg Vedernikov (奥列克·维捷尔尼科夫 / Олег Ветреников), the principal cellist of the Beijing Symphony Orchestra. more ›

Via AP: "Firefighters in China staged a daring rescue after a man was stranded by floodwaters that have filled rivers in the southeastern part of the country." more ›

A video now going viral on iFeng.com shows a white blonde male putting his feet over the seat before him and a Chinese female passenger's head on a train from Shenyang to Beijing. It is not clear what happened before the start of this video, but the woman was clearly irritated by the man's behavior. She stood up, turned around, and hit the man's feet with a magazine, saying "you are a big shame to your country." ("你真给你国家丢人") more ›

Paul Luyeye and Martha Makuena, the Congolese proprietors of China's first authentic African hair salon located in Beijing speak to China Daily. more ›

Via AFP: "The world's tallest lego tower with more than 50,000 bricks stands in front of Seoul's Olympic Stadium. The lego tower measuring 31.9 meters took five days to build and broke the previous record set in France at 31.6 meters." more ›

China's Foreign Ministry has voiced "strong dissatisfaction" over the awarding of the $1.7 million Templeton Prize to the Dalai Lama at St Paul's Cathedral in London. It has also summoned the British ambassador Sebastian Wood to protest the meeting between UK Prime Minister David Cameron and the Dalai Lama. more ›

Australia's newly appointed foreign minister Bob Carr (who came to the post after the dramatic resignation of Kevin Rudd) is now in China on his first official trip as FM. Carr has previously been known to describe the Dalai Lama as a "cunning monk" on his personal blog, but he deleted those remarks shortly after being appointed foreign minister. more ›

Watch this amazing little video and bike vicariously through Sinostand's Eric Fish. more ›

Beijing-based investor Duncan Clark speaks to Australian Network News on the question of whether China could some day rival Silicon Valley. more ›

Via The Daily Telegraph: "A man jumped from a moving car to run to the aid of his four year-old daughter, who fell from the same car at a busy crossroad in Wenzhou city in China's southeastern Zhejiang province." more ›

Shanghaiist reader "Revolted in Shenyang" sent us the following video of what he saw at the recent China International Pharmaceutical Machinery Exposition held at the Shenyang International Exhibition Center. He writes: more ›

Via AP: "A work featuring one ton of handmade porcelain sunflower seeds by Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei will be a highlight at a contemporary art sale at Sotheby's Wednesday night in New York. The sackful is estimated to bring $600,000 to $800,000." more ›

Via The Daily Telegraph: "Chinese citizens are outraged after a Ferrari sports car leaves tyre marks on Nanjing's ancient city wall during a publicity stunt for the car maker's Chinese dealership." more ›

17,450 "health tonic" and "stamina booster" pills smuggled from China and confiscated by South Korean customs officials have been found to be made from aborted foetuses and stillborn babies. While no sicknesses have been reported yet by those who ate the pills, Korean doctors are warning that super-bacteria, germs and viruses have been detected in them and could cause health problems. China's Ministry of Health said that an investigation has been launched but it found no conclusive proof that the pills were made in China. more ›

And here it is -- the Al-Jazeera documentary that is said to have pissed China off so much that it refused to extend press credentials for its China correspondent Melissa Chan (even though she took no part in its production), effectively forcing the news network to shut down its Beijing bureau. The documentary includes some eye-opening footage from what Al-Jazeera says is a "laogai" reeducation labour camp. more ›

Blind human rights activist Chen Guangcheng makes phonecall to a US congressional hearing asking to meet Hilary Clinton over fears for the safety of his family. The man translating for him is Bob Fu, president of ChinaAid, a US-based Christian human rights group. more ›

Via Guinness World Records: "The most motorised vehicles doing ramp jump crossings in mid air is 4 and was achieved by the challengers from Chery QQ Car Stunts Performance Team (China) at Hengdian World Studios, Zhejiang Province, China, on 14 May 2010. The two cars and two motorcycles were jumping from ramps of different heights, and they "met" in the middle." more ›

Think you've got moves? Think again. Sun Fengqing, a 60-year-old grandma from Nanjing who recently took up pole dancing lessons, will put you to shame. more ›

Stephen Colbert on blind activist Chen Guangcheng's miraculous escape: ‎"Apparently losing your sight doesn't only make your hearing better, it makes your balls bigger." more ›

Via ITN: Police at Yunnan's annual mud festival are smeared by partying locals and tourists. more ›

No, these really aren't humans in bear costumes, but real black bears at Qingdao's Xiaozhushan Scenic Spot performing stunts to wow visitors for during the May Day holiday. more ›

CCTV outdid itself this year with an amazing commercial pitting NBA clans against each other à la Dynasty Warriors. more ›