Nicola Davison of The Guardian reports on the upswing in business that the surrogate industry is expecting in the Year of the Dragon. She speaks to a woman surnamed Gao, a surrogate mother on the hunt for the next infertile couple seeking a womb: more ›

China's national women's boxing team may have only been formed in 2010, but they're already aiming for Olympic gold. Huey Fern Tay of Australia Network News reports. more ›

Sister Feng, the self-promoting literary genius, was recently spotted outside of Columbia University on Manhattan's Upper West Side (she previously demanded husbands who were Tsinghua or Peking university graduates), handing out fliers with her requirements for a husband written in English. And though we can't confirm if Sister Feng will definitely be starring in that Japanese porno, we can confirm that she is no longer interested in Asian men! more ›

Most people in China prefer to have sons instead of daughters to continue the family name, but not one young woman in Yancheng, Jiangsu province. In fact, she wanted to have a girl so badly she took a pair of scissors and snipped off her five-month-old son's penis. The court has handed her a five year prison sentence. more ›

Amazing volleyball rally between Tianjin and Army with 16 switches. more ›

Shanghai Daily reports: "Three local officials are among the six men detained for having sex with two teenage girls in Lueyang County, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, according to the police." more ›

Since Dr. Phil or Oprah don't really have much traction in China, mainland women instead have to turn to institutions like the Good Wife Happy School and the Beijing Moral Education Center for Women to prevent or fix a broken marriage. more ›

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Two days ago, we heard about Chinese women getting trafficked into Ghana as prostitutes to service expatriates working in the country. Today, Shanghai Daily tells us of a transnational police action which has seen a prostitution ring busted in Angola and ringleaders captured in China: more ›

Ghana's Citi News reports that Chinese women are being trafficked into Ghana to service expatriates working in the country, according to the Accra-based non-governmental organisation Enslavement Protection Alliance West Africa. more ›

A female government official in Liaoning province has been executed almost a year after she was found guilty of corruption: more ›

Around 20 girls under the age of 18, including two under the age of 14, have had a prostitution ring of their own making uncovered in Shanghai's Zhabei district, after a customer who had his watch stolen reported the ring to local authorities. more ›

Here's a problem we'll hear increasingly about in the future. Xinhua reports that 206 foreign women "illegally purchased by desperate bachelors" were rescued in Hebei province: more ›

The recent scandalous story involving a naked mistress leaping from the second story of a hotel in Nanjing to escape the wrath of her wife's lover has been revealed to be fraudulent. more ›

Following eight self-immolations by Tibetan monks this year, a Tibetan nun has set herself on fire and died yesterday. This is believed to be the first case of a female self-immolation in the region. Via RFA:

Tenzin Wamgmo, about 20 years old, called for freedom in Tibet and the return of the Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual leader living in exile in India, before succumbing to her burns. more ›

After three fruitful years of political involvement, Bai Yitong, China's youngest village chief and the leader of Gaojie village in Shanxii, could possibly resign before the upcoming 2012 election. This move would mark a surprising turning point in the saga of such a promising politician who at just 18 years old in 2009, carved out her niche in the male-dominated world of Chinese politics, becoming an inspiration not only for her villagers, but for Chinese women everywhere. more ›

Hurun released yesterday its list of richest women in mainland China yesterday. Topping the list this year is Wu Yajun, 47, of Longhu Real Estate Development Co Ltd, with an estimated family fortune of 420 billion yuan ($6.6 billion). more ›

In South Africa, where the HIV incidence rate is well over 10% of the population, condoms are such a weighty matter that the courts will step in if they think you're bringing in substandard condoms. more ›

Here's some news that our good friend Li Yang of Crazy English (and his wife) might like to hear:

Legislators are in the final stages of designing a new law to tackle the scourge of domestic violence, a leading women's rights campaigner said on Wednesday. more ›

WOMEN who were born before September 17, 1989, and claim to be virgins can enter the Zhouluo Wild Osmanthus Fragrans Festival in Changsha for free. more ›

"TWO girls and a woman were rescued from a gang planning to sell them as wives in neighboring Jiangsu Province, local police said yesterday. A 12-year-old girl and her 15-year-old cousin were found by officers in a hotel in Xuhui District. The woman was located in a village in Jiangsu. Eight men were detained by officers for alleged human trafficking offences dating back 10 years. Police said they saw the girls taken into a hotel on Shilong Road in Xuhui by three middle-aged men on June 16. During a spot check by police, the three men claimed to be relatives of the girls. However, they were unable to give even the names of the girls parents." [Shanghai Daily] more ›

Ladies, why live such a tough life working so hard, running the rat race to improve your own social mobility when you can just find a billionaire and marry him? And that's exactly what one school in Beijing is offering to teach you -- for as low as US$46 an hour, you can learn how to win the heart of a rich man!
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“A scantly-clad young woman was found dead this morning outside a hotel in downtown Shanghai. She was holding a knife in one hand and her body had several knife wounds. Police are investigating the cause of her death and believed the woman was born around 1987. Witnesses said they saw the woman, wearing a backless dress and low-waist jeans, stumbling out of the Holiday Inn Vista hotel on Changshou Road at about 8am. She collapsed in front of a convenience store nearby and died. The scene shocked passers-by who described the victim as in a weird behavior because she wore so little that part of her bottom was exposed. So far, no one knows what she experienced inside the hotel.” [Shanghai Daily] more ›

Chongqing held its first ever belly dancing competition last weekend, open to professionals and amateurs alike. Dozens got up on that stage at Chongqing's Foreigner Street, some with substantially more to shake than others... more ›

Newly viral on the Chinese internets: A well-dressed and apparently rich Shanghainese woman throws up a fit when asked by a shop assistant in a piano store to not place her bag on the expensive grand piano. As she's slamming the piano with her handbag, the store manager comes along and tries to calm her down, adding that he may have to call security otherwise. The woman then throws them a credit card and says she's buying the piano, at which point she is informed by the manager that the Steinway costs RMB1.06 million. Interestingly, throughout the video, the woman speaks only in Shanghainese, even though the store employees are talking to her in Mandarin. more ›

As China ups its marketing as a destination for medical tourism, more and more foreigners are expected to arrive in the People's Republic for all sorts of treatments and operations, and we're not talking about just acupuncture or foot reflexology here. more ›

Somebody should definitely do a Shanghainese version of this: more ›

In this episode of Sexy Beijing, Sufei hits the streets and asks Beijingers what they think of Shanghai girls. She then interviews Mina Hanbury-Tenison, the author of a Shanghai Girls, Uncensored & Unsentimental, a book she wrote based on conversations with a friend called Lan Lan. more ›