Category Archives: Internet

The Great Celestial Nanny is behaving oddly again: roboblog Living in China is blocked, while blogs on Blogspot.com are suddenly available. If you live in China, take the Nanny-free chance to check out some Iraqi blogs, most of which seem … Continue reading →

A month after Euromoney China published its list of China’s richest people with Huang Guangyu of Gome Appliances at the top, Forbes publishes its list. Many of the usual suspects are there, but Forbes counts the dollars differently: Larry Rong … Continue reading →

Barack Obama is a half-black, half Kansan American kid who was born in Hawaii and grew up in Indonesia. He was the first black president of the Harvard Law Review. He has smoked weed and snorted cocaine, and written about … Continue reading →

The geeks at Slashdot debate news about Internet cafés being shut down in China. They have very different view points: Ranging from the standard anti-commie vent: A huge nation with a corrupt, fascist, evil government run by one small party … Continue reading →

Xinhua can barely go two weeks without posting a new photo gallery of Naomi Campbell, whom the state-owned news service likes to call the Black Pearl. Now Xinhua have an actual China-related excuse for their new library of images; Campbell … Continue reading →

Maggie’s is a Beijing institution. It’s a bar full of Western men who wear polo shirts tucked tightly into jeans that are held up with large-buckled belts. There are also many Mongolian ‘students’ earning their ‘university fees’. Maggies is online … Continue reading →

Lesbian Internet radio in Shanghai, and lots of gay news about China in English on a Thai site called Floating Lotus. Links via Fons Tuinstra’s China Herald.