March 13, 2010 | LATEST STORIES, PHOTOS & VIDEO:

Women Make Noise

Atom, the female drummer for Beijing band Hedgehog, talks about being a girl in a band: "I think any girl who plays in a band is special... I started to like rock 'n' roll in college because Xiao Wu, the drummer of Queen Sea Big Shark introduced me to some really good stuff. Rock 'n' roll is like looking at yourself in a mirror -- you see who you are... My father wants me to be famous...

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A giant sells himself

Seen at sqdaily.com, a “giant” of a man holds a sign implying that he is a bonded servant, saying he’s “selling himself” to find a judge for a cultural festival.

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Zhang Yimou Explains the Opening Ceremony

Director Zhang Yimou talks about what never made it into the Olympics opening ceremony: "At the start of the performance, a white haired old man opens the rice paper, brandishing dipping ink and writing with a rafter as though with a large brush pen; when writing a character, the surging water of the Yellow River would permeate the LED screen from the sky, falling down ... an old person scoops the Yellow River's water; when he's...

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Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony

Some scenes from the Olympics opening ceremony that began at 8pm today.

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Daring to become enemies with China: have three Western countries — England, France and Germany — taken drugs?

"Their real aim is not Tibet or the Olympics, but rather to force China to pay the bill for their economic depression. Don't pay the bill: screw yourself over, you'll die, and everybody dies together. Pay the bill: have a seat and talk, you agree with me, I make concessions to end the trouble."

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Water buffalo vs. BMW

"Her new BMW didn't even make it two months when an automatic flameout occured; it came within an inch of demanding her life..."

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The Sounds of Ridicule

A "fake nude woman" stages her performance art and gets what she asks for...

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禁戀 Forbidden Love

The winning team of last year's Chinese version of "So you think you can dance?" The show is "1-2-3-4 Dance" (1234舞) and the team, two boys named A Li (阿力) and Yang Yifan (杨一帆), talk about the dance they call "Forbidden Love," then perform it. In the interview, both the dancers and the announcer acknowledge the homosexual storyline told by the choreography. In the US, the American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from its list of mental diseases...

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禁戀 Forbidden Love

The winning team of last year's Chinese version of "So you think you can dance?" The show is "1-2-3-4 Dance" (1234舞) and the team, two boys named A Li (阿力) and Yang Yifan (杨一帆), talk about the dance they call "Forbidden Love," then perform it. In the interview, both the dancers and the announcer acknowledge the homosexual storyline told by the choreography. In the US, the American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from its list of mental diseases...

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Amnesty International entrusts multinational company to fake Chinese prison abuse advertisements

"'Too furious, I am obviously too furious for words,' Tian Jie, a foreign student in Canada, told the International Herald Leader after seeing the pictures on the Internet."

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