You rememeber when you were a kid and you fantasized about athletes from different eras squaring off against each other? What would happen if Nolan Ryan pitched to Babe Ruth? Who would win a 1-on-1 game between Jordan and Bird? Would Ali in his prime beat Tyson in his? Well, tennis […]

I miss the Sunday Times. I miss waking up on Sunday mornings and opening my apartment door to find that fat edition of the New York Times waiting to be scooped up and read. The next stop is the garbage can, where the multitude of circulars and advertising gets discarded before I can […]

Turkeys Spread Wings in China
With more and more foreigners expatriating to China, this time of year, Turkey farms both in the mainland and abroad are cashing in. The China Daily reports that China imports around 100,000 tons of turkeys per year, 40% of which are sold during the Thanksgiving season. While Kung Pao […]

Medical professionals in China are warning those who watch the uncensored version of Lust, Caution against replicating the sexual positions seen in the film. Chinese film buffs have taken to illegally downloading the uncut version of Ang Lee’s latest film, a spy thriller based in occupied Shanghai, because the sanitized version playing in Chinese […]

It’s official. I have been conclusively disqualified from presenting medals to winners at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. It’s not because I don’t have a million-dollar smile or the ability to place a medal around someone’s neck. It’s just that the Olympic Organizing Committee decided to go with young hot chicks and […]

What do Siberian tigers do when they are cooped up in a freezing North China zoo that cannot afford to feed them? They go after one of their own. In a gruesome act of cannibalism Saturday, four adult Siberian tigers attacked a 12-year-old 330-pound tiger with which they had peacefully shared a compound […]

Flumesday.com proudly welcomes the newest member of the Flumesday family, The China Arts Page. After a few long months of labor, Flumesday finally gave birth this morning, November 15, 2007, to a beautiful baby website. The China Arts Page brings to the Flumesday readers all of the news, opinion and humor of […]

With the Beyoncé Experience in the rear view mirror and the Linkin Park Shanghai concert just around the bend, it’s clear that the old attitudes toward Western-minded cultural events in Shanghai, and mainland China in general, have changed drastically. Just two years ago, the announcement of an Ice-T concert at the now defunct Pegasus […]

Really good news out of Beijing Thursday for those Olympic athletes who are devoutly religious. Bibles will be permitted in the Olympic Village during the Beijing Summer Games. Not only permitted, but according to Olympic organizers, they are welcome. I know some of you Flumesday readers abroad might be thinking, “why wouldn’t […]

Call it a Chinese-on-Chinese crime. Call it ratting out a brother. Call it whatever you want. But it won’t change the fact that Chinese reporter Shi Tao is sitting in a Chinese prison because Yahoo! officials handed over confidential information to the Chinese government implicating the journalist as a traitor. And […]