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Chocolate-flavored body spreads sold in British sex shops have been found to be tainted with melamine, the chemical that made thousands of babies ill in China, food safety authorities said

I was just sitting here ready to write a post when our whole building started to sway, I thought it was a case of vertigo until the pictures started to sway. Outside what I found most strange was that some construction workers remained on the cranes and continued working.

It seems China may be changing its stance on getting involved in other nations' affairs. Should we be wary?

Instead of preparing toppings on a traditional flat crust, the toppings are placed inside a cone shaped crust (think an ice cream cone) and then baked.

Do Westerners unconsciously look down on Chinese people? Do Chinese people have a reason to despise their round-eyed, fair skinned friends? This post examines these issues from the perspective of an American living as a Chinese blue collar worker.

A new report out by Canadian group Probe International is questioning whether the Sichuan quake may be the result of the filling of the Three Gorges Dam. Wait, before you shake your head at the "Western bias" - they've Chinese scientists on this too. Since initially filling the dam there has been a couple thousand micro-quakes, and that it rests on a couple fault lines makes one have to at least consider there might be consequences of some sort.

A short story on how a survey by Reporters Without Borders shows that 64 bloggers round the world are imprisoned for blogging negatively about their country/government. According to the Danish news 50 of these are located Chinese prisons.

Jonathan Pomfret argues: "For better or worse, it's safe to say that we're at the doorstep of a new era of China bashing in the West. The post-Tiananmen Square crackdown honeymoon where the zeitgeist was 'we can all get rich together' is over. It's been replaced by China = bad guy."

Steve's China Blog has a short and sweet analysis of getting "express" deliveries in China. The FEDEX online tracking's last line sums it up very sucinctly: "7:41 PM Shipment exception BEIJING CN Delay beyond our control"