A handsome but anonymous guardian of the Olympics torch on its troubled world tour has won legions of Chinese female fans -- and plenty of marriage proposals.

One week after Barbara Bachman's husband was killed in a random knife attack in China that also hospitalized her with life-threatening injuries, she is back in her home state of Minnesota to continue her recovery.

. . . . or are they? An Article found in the 'Sydney Morning Herald'

Chinese internet users Photoshop many 2008 Chinese Olympic athletes onto famous movie posters, including Yao Ming, Liu Xiang, and American Michael Phelps.

It’s only been a month since BBC’s English-language news website was unblocked by Net Nanny for the first time in the three years that I’ve been in China with regular web access.

And now today, more astonishingly, the BBC’s Chinese language news site has also been unblocked, quite possibly for the first time in the history of the Interwebs.

The team from China, Cheng Fei, Deng Linlin, He Kexin, Jiang Yuyuan, Li Shanshan and Yang Yilin, bagged the Women’s Gymnastics (Artistic) Team Event gold with 188.900 points. United States team had silver with 186.525 points, Romania at

Photos of the Opening ceremony of beijing olympics 2008 Games

Former Olympic speedskater's visa revoked hours before he was set to travel to Beijing to promote his effort urging China to help make peace in the war-torn Darfur.

Prediction 4. Beijing taxi drivers will be sending their kids overseas next year. With so much tender and non-savvy foreign meat to feed on, these boys are going to make a tank full of piranha seem like a litter of newborn kittens. No manner of written or spoken warning will be sufficient to save the unwary. It won’t be pretty, although Beijing will insist that it is.

The New Dominion takes a look at differences in the way the Chinese media has covered the a terrorist incident in Kashgar in English and in Mandarin.