• China dominates World Economic Forum agenda.
• Chickens for fighter jets?
• Shanghaiist reports that Memoirs of a Geisha has officially been banned in China.
• There are two sides to every story and here's one you probably won't hear in the western media: The angry river people talk back.
• Caption contest on a rather bizarre photo over at Riding Sun.
• Will the Lunar New Year become an officially recognized holiday in the United States?
• More on Google: The real cost of Google's sellout to China.
• Danwei takes note of the rapid changes taking place in Chinese media and the tools at their disposal.
• China Daily: Informed citizenry the key to winning the country's AIDS battle.
• Year of the dog may be bad for pets in China, but in Thailand every dog has its day.
• Gao Zhan: First the US government demands her release in China, now they want to send her back.
• Koreans spend more on cigarettes than books.
• Feeling thrifty? Blue Dragon is seeking assistance for a worthy cause in Vietnam.

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Simon here (I was going to complain about being at work on a holiday, but after seeing this, it doesn't seem important), with a few pieces that have recently caught my eye:

• Appropriately for the new year, the growing acceptance of dogs as Chinese pets.
• Bingfeng has a simple Chinese New Year wish about chopsticks.
• How China's leaders spent the spring festival.
• Sun Bin looks at the scar of the Great Leap Forward.
• Japan's courts say it's OK to discriminate against anyone who can't speak perfect Japanese.
• Bra shopping in China.
• Further to Gordon's link above, Joel Legendre on China topics at Davos.
• Something to bear in mind for Singaporean election blogging.
• It's not easy being a foreign model in Thailand. A quick travel tip: if you're in Bangkok, go to Sirocco.
• Behind KJI's recent southern China trip. One of KJI's top aides obviously decided to hang around Suoth China for a while, and ended up getting arrested in Macau.
• A rising China's projection of soft power via Confucius.
• I mentioned the PLA's military exercises recently, largely based on "defending" Korea. I hope the generals take a look at the RoK special forces cold weather combat training.
• What does China want?
• For the China economy fans: what's so special about China's exports? The counter arguements linked by New Economist.
• Farewell to Sir John Cowperthwaite, a man who made Hong Kong what it is today.
• The human cost of China's industrialisation.
• China irony alert: the CCP is a hugely profitable real estate company.