10 years ago in 2003 when SARS was gradually under control, China’s now retired president Hu Jintao took power. 10 years later, Xi Jinping steps onto the stage and here is H7N9 bird flu. Many of Chinese netizens sighed: “History always repeats itself. 10 years, we circle back.”

Rumor has it that Shenyang, the city to hold China’s National Games, is short of funding so that local government organized a new round of anti-counterfeit and public hygiene inspections among small private businesses to harvest fines.

A big fire that has been rumored to claim 378 lives in Jixian, Tianjin made Chinese netizens turn to New York to discuss the matter and work around censorship. Even the Shifang protest was said to be a distraction of this Tianjin fire.

The “fear of touch” quote regarding the censored nudity scenes in Titanic 3D, which was believed to be from a reliable news source at the time of writing the blog post, was verified as a joke by an offended Chinese netizen. Below is a letter from 豆瓣逗你妹, who originated the fake news, explaining how his joke evolved into news.

A sample of how Chinese netiznes from Sina Weibo, as well as Sohu Weibo, the only Twitter-like service in China that hasn’t received any government punishment, react to the comment ban effective yesterday on two of China’s most popular microblogging services.

Almost overnight, everybody on Sina Weibo becomes part of a real-life “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” show. Read and find out what does “Teletubbies vs. Master Kong” have to do with China’s political drama.