China’s propaganda mandarins are experimenting with a new policy to manage their message in the age of the internet: reporting the news as it happens. This marks an important shift for the ruling Communist Party, accustomed to deciding what will be reported and when.

An absolutely brilliantly formatted post that shows how a NYT piece on the Olympics was creatively edited into a rather sanitized bastardization of the original for the eyes of Beijingers in the Beijing Evening News.

Riding on the coattails of the Tibet riots a few weeks ago, Xinjiang is now hitting international news outlets because of protests in Khotan. The New Dominion looks at the flawed perspective the media provides when it elects to analyze Xinjiang through the Tibet lens, by considering historical, cultural, and geographical factors.

A 19-year-old Chinese student recorded the killing and dismembering of her married lover by her boyfriend. The victim, 39, was a married manager at a local highway and bridge building company, the newspaper said.

Tim Johnson thinks somebody might be doing a bit of fuzzy math with China stats.

"I see the World Bank says 20 of the world's 30 most polluted cities are in China. And here's a story that says 16 of the world's 20 most polluted cities are Chinese. So which is it? And what are the cities?"