Happy Thanksgiving Everybody. As we all take time to enjoy friends, family, and good food, AHCB will not be updating until the coming week.  In the meantime, here are some readings to keep you busy.  My two cents worth of commentary precedes each link.

Come back next week when we introduce our two newest writers, and also start the countdown to a new look and a much bigger format.

//D + J

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1. Where there’s a bill there’s a way: Transaparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index 2009

2. Chinese teens are surprised to find out that sex leads to pregnancy: The Blank Slate of Sexual Education in the Chinese Countryside

3. “You have a big, health baby boy.  Here is your ticket for seven hundred yuan.”: Chinese Hospital Fines Overweight Newborns

4. H1N1, not even the desert is a safe place to hide: H1n1 in Xinjiang: Suspected and Confirmed

5. Frying his brain hasn’t stopped him from playing video games, but at least he can’t beat the last level in Super Mario 3 anymore: China Bans Physical Punishment for Internet Addicts

6. “I’ll just purchase one more clothing item for my avatar and then I’ll go check on that baby”: Children’s Hospital Doctor on duty playing games, 5-month-old Dies

7. Someone finally figured out what to do when to make those annoying seat belt notification sounds stop working:  Dept of Having-Seen-It-All-Now: Chinese Safety Reduction Devices

8. Yes, China is going to take over the world: How China Stacks up to the US, an info-graphic

9.  Because Beijing has a rap scene:  哪里有 Hip Hop呢 (You Call That Hip Hop)