Mexico used to regard China with hostility, as one of its prime economic competitors, but nowadays the two are moving towards a mutually profitable economic relationship. Especially since China has become ever more clearly the world’s major economic power,...

A wedding banquet in Beijing was ruined when someone accidentally added rust-remover to the feast instead of salt. All 170 guests that ate the food became violently ill and had to be rushed to the hospital. Talk about one...

Post-Olympics, it’s too easy to mock China for being overly perfect and monolithic. That’s why it’s also easy to completely adore any Chinese attempt to break rank, like the Hip-Hop Grannies, a booty-shaking geriatric dance troupe from Beijing. The...

Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez is embarking on a world tour, first stopping off in Cuba to visit Fidel Castro, who has been too busy blogging and prank calling Sarah Palin to make public appearances lately. After Cuba, Chavez will...

A tainted milk scare in China has gone to include both powdered and liquid dairy, after it has has resulted in the death of four children and caused Starbucks to drop its Chinese milk supplier. [MSNBC] Pat O’Brien has...

Ok. This has officially gotten ridiculous. We kind of just want to hide under a Swiss flag until the Beijing Olympics have come to an end, only coming out to see how many more records American swimmer Michael Phelps...

Proving Spain’s Olympic basketball team isn’t the only Spanish team to have a sense of humor akin to a four-year-old or your racist uncle who still refers to people as “colored,” the country’s Olympic tennis team posed for their...

Slate writer Daniel Brook thinks Disney’s outrage over Miley Cyrus’ recent Vanity Fair photo shoot might be slightly disingenuous, considering an underwear campaign they had in China, featuring a pretty sexualized image of a pre-teen: I was walking from...

When we first read about the recent string of protests in Tibet, we immediately wondered, “Gosh, what does Hugo Chavez have to say about all this?” Luckily for us, Huey took some time out of his busy schedule of...

Mexican shoemakers, not unlike adorable shoemaking elves, get their britches in a bunch when their work is outsourced overseas. They’re mad as hell and they’re not going to take it anymore!: In a three-story mall filled entirely with shoe...

Travel writer Stephanie Elizondo Griest has traveled the world on her own. She’s also drunk many beers with us. So visits with her are always full of great stories. We caught up with her recently in the middle of...

Mexican-American dude and blossoming auteur, Miguel A. Diaz, is writing a book called Unbecoming American. Provocative! Apparently, Diaz never felt so at home as he did in China – that mystical land of people who are fetishized even more...

• Cindy Adams’ review of the iPhone sounds like your parents trying to work the VCR. [Cindy Adams, New York Post] • The government’s refusal to listen to border dwelling Americans about not building a wall is forcing them...

Just in time to hype up next summer’s Olympic Games in Beijing, something called the United Dance Salsa Congress will be invading China this August.Check out this random promo that invites you to join the festivities; you wouldn’t wanna...

Everyone’s favorite lesbian muse whom we actually mistook for a lesbian has found something to dedicate her (oodles of) free time to—clothing design. Actress Michelle Rodríguez has announced that the reason behind her worldwide travel as of late is...

Reports are coming in from all over the blogosphere that ‘la cerveza más fina’ has found its toughest competition yet…in a poorman’s version of itself. Click the image at right to compare the Chinese knock-off from Beijing Cerono Trade...