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Imagethief was not in the least surprised to hear that Chinese netizens were outraged that movie actress Gong Li has taken Singapore citizenship. But then, Imagethief is not in the least surprised by anything that outrages Chinese netizens. Chinese netizens were outraged when Gong Li played a Japanese woman in ''Memoirs of Geisha'', alongside ...

There is no such thing as a dull year in China. 2008 is well underway and already looks like another whopper. We're only a month in and we've already had the biggest storms in half a century. The Olympics, the mother of all China events, is now a scant seven months off. God only knows what will happen in between. But before we get too far into ...

To look at the news surrounding China's recent announcement of a ban on thin plastic bags you'd think the gates to environmental heaven had just swung open. I'm sure I could see those very gates if the air outside my office windows wasn't full of nitrogen oxides and coal soot generated by the perma-gridlock on East Chang'an Ave. There are plenty ...

Yes, it's more fluorescent, green pigs. Details here (AP) and here (Xinhua). It used to be when you saw a green, glowing pig you automatically assumed a nuclear accident nearby. How times have changed. Naturally, this will all yield great benefits for science or agriculture:''This technology promises to breed excellent transgenic pigs and even ...

Imagethief was enrocketed to read on Friday that China's taikonauts --whom I prefer to call ''astronauts'' because ''taikonauts'' sounds like they should be exploring my sugar bowl-- are considering starting a Communist Party cell in outer space:''If China has its own space station, the taikonauts on mission will carry out the regular activities ...

Imagethief was intrigued to read the following in a Washington Post story about the Seventeenth Party Congress this morning:[Hu] used his two-and-one-half-hour speech mainly to underline his doctrine of ''scientific development,'' which he described as ''an important guiding principle for China's economic and social development and a major ...

On behalf of all of his journalist friends (don't hide, you know who you are), Imagethief was pleased to read in today's China Daily that foreign journalists are to be allowed more access than ever to the upcoming National Party Congress. According to the article:New services include more group interviews for overseas reporters apart from the ...