The photograph shows a starkly handsome Chinese man walking with a model's measured gait, and wearing a rag-tag but well co-ordinated overcoat on top of a leather jacket. His eyes peer into the middle distance, in what one fan described as "a deep and penetrating way", and he strides confidently forward.

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said Saturday that his mother suffered a cerebral hemorrhage when she saw the shoe-throwing incident at Cambridge University on TV last year.

She was awakened at 9 am by the alarm clock beside her bed and scrambled out of bed to head for her desk. She turned her computer on and began the day's online lesson.

China's population is 1.3 billion, of which approximately 300 million are Internet users. But an online poll to solicit public opinion on a date for "national tourism day" has received a staggering 4.2 billion votes, giving rise to speculation that local governments are "forging fake support" for their recommendations.

Every January, Bill writes an Annual Letter, which includes his thoughts on the work of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and progress it is making toward achieving its goals. Interest in the 2009 Annual Letter was one reason Bill decided to create the Gates Notes website.

What are China's most popular online slang terms as we approach the end of the decade? One popular choice could be “Life is a cup, it's up to you to decide whether it's a drinking cup or a toothbrush cup.

1."We are of high-level positions. So don't bother to call the police."

The cyber security competition last Saturday was the fourth sponsored by the Neusoft Institute of Information Technology (NINT) in Guangdong. It gave more than 40 students a chance to put their hacking skills to good use and to earn a little pocket money in the process. The winning team received 5,000 yuan.

Virtual entertainment sites let you chat, dress-up, feed the dog and shop in a way that feels real. In fact, it's all just a mirage, a lot of pixels on a web page, but these little pixels are the gateway to a whole universe – of real-world trouble.

Shi Yongxin, the abbot of the Shaolin Temple, fell victim to an online hoax in which the front page of the temple's website was replaced with a fake letter of remorse.

VIDEO games have never been that cool in the West. For years they've been strongly associated with the teenage boy demographic-not great for the image. But thanks to new technology (Nintendo's interactive Wii, for instance) and clever marketing, they are now nearly sexy.

Dear Daughter,

In the months leading up to his college graduation in June, Yang Fugang spent most of his days away from campus, managing an online store that sells cosmetics, shampoo and other goods he often buys from local factories.

Xiong Di, 22, a junior in management at Beijing Union University understands a soldier's thirst for the battlefield. This veteran World of Warcraft (WoW) gamer used to stay in the game for more than four hours a day. Now, with the Mainland's server halted for administration's reapproval since June 7, Xiong and the 5 million other WoWers find themselves in a vacuum, a boring, empty void.

China Internet Illegal Information Reporting Centre (CIIRC) has strongly criticized the well-known search engine in response to a large amount of pornographic content on Google China. In addition, relevant authorities have also punished Google China, instructing the search engine to suspend its foreign web search and associative-word search functions and to purge pornographic and vulgar content immediately and thoroughly.