I came across an article saying that 40% of China’s population can’t speak Mandarin. That’s a staggering statistic. According to the article, it’s mostly people in the rural areas, “the illiterate”, who can’t speak it. The article states that there are about 80 languages spoken in China, which is good news for [...]

The next time you go to a Chinatown looking for a cheap knock-off version of a Louis Vuitton or a Gucci bag, you may not have a great selection. Police in Milan, Italy, just confiscated over 650,000 fake versions of those companies’ bags in a huge raid. Sorry, incredibly-vain-and-insecure-people-who-feel-like-they-have-to-have-the-most-expensive-looking-stuff-to-have-self-esteem, you may have to [...]

Since most of my readers (all 2 of you) know nothing about how the internet works, I’ll leave a lot of the technical details behind the article in this post.  Trust me, they would bore you (and me) stiff. 

Basically, the internet has been running out of IP addresses (every website has an address) because of the [...]

News Corp (owners of MySpace.com) want to move into the Chinese market, but they may have a long road ahead of them. The Chinese government is pretty strict about digital media and foreign influence. So News Corp’s chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch has decided to send his wife, Wendy Deng, a native Chinese [...]

Ah, China. A country of firsts. The first flushing toilet (where’d that idea go since then, guys?), the first to make pasta (or so I’m told), the first to make fireworks…and now the first country to perform not just a penis transplant, but also a penis transplant removal.

I don’t know how I missed [...]