If you haven’t read about the Daft Punk concert scam in Shanghai, Alex Davenport wrote a great piece in the Huffington Post that tells the whole story of the concert that never was. As a former Shanghai expat myself (and one who’s been ripped off on concert tickets), I wish I could say I was [...]

You could call it an apology. Or you could call it begging for Mazda, with whom Phelps just inked a 7-figure Chinese sponsorship deal, not to drop his ass like like Kellogg did last week in the United States. Mazda released a statement Wednesday saying, “We were shocked on learning the news [that Mikey takes [...]

News broke today of a fatal incident occurring Saturday involving a computer store employee in Guangzhou and a cell phone. The man charged the battery to his Nokia mobile phone, put his newly-charged phone into the breast pocket of his shirt and according to a coworker, there was a loud bang, and the guy was [...]

Wen Jiabao, on a three-day trip to Great Britain, found himself on the receiving end of a shoe-flinging by a student protester at Cambridge University Monday morning. As Wen was delivering a speech on Sino-British friendship in the global economy, a student stood up, blew a whistle and began shouting at Wen. “How can this [...]

Germany’s Max Planck Society is one of the most reputable scientific research institutes in the world, overseeing world-class exploration in the natural, physical and social sciences that has earned its scientists 17 Nobel prizes since 1948. However, the editorial staff that heads up the Max Planck Forschung, the German-language top scientific journal that publishes the [...]

It seems like only yesterday that workers broke ground on the Shanghai World Financial Center, the 492-meter-high skyscraper in Shanghai’s Lujiazui financial district and the second tallest building in the world (the Taipei 101 building is the tallest at 509 meters from base to top of spire). But today, workers in Shanghai held a ground [...]

A really handsome guy wrote today about how China is dealing with the release of Guns N’ Roses sixth studio album Chinese Democracy, the band’s first original studio album in 17 years. Is rock and roll’s most anticipated album in years China’s worst nightmare? Huffington Post: “China Bans Democracy, Declares War on Guns N’ Roses“

Here’s the album art from Chinese Democracy: Front Cover: Back Cover: Alternate Cover:

Due to a rough run of laziness and a resistance to the serious, upsetting side of Chinese news, I never wrote anything about China’s baby milk scandal, you know, the one where 94,000 children became terribly ill from being fed melamine-laced baby formula. But a story broke Monday that I just couldn’t resist and felt [...]