She is dubbed “the most beautiful boss” in Changshu City in eastern Jiangsu Province because of her beauty. And she used her charms to borrow about 500 million yuan from private lenders and 100 million from banks and companies by promising high returns at an annual interest rate of around 40 percent.

Her real name is Gu Chunfang. And now this most beautiful boss has gone missing, leaving her creditors in the lurch.

Gu Chunfang - the most beautiful boss

Claims are circulating that her debts could amount to around a billion yuan.

“Gu had told victims she would use the money to register companies, invest in projects and make loans,” a private lender calling himself “Y” said on the city’s online bulletin board.

Gu’s Suzhou Kaiwailong Trading Limited Co was involved in businesses including cement, metals, lubricants, chemical fibers, daily commodities, fabrics and hardware. She also operated a clothing shop and a high-end manicure store that closed following her disappearance.

Gu, 40, was born in Changshu and is a divorcee. She failed to graduate from junior high school, but she became popular in business circles and with officialdom because of her beauty.

Before she embarked on her business, she was a cosmetic saleswoman and a model for a clothing company and lead actress for a firm that made publicity films for the city.

A friend of Gu and director of a local company, who asked to remain anonymous, told China Daily that the mining business Gu had invested in required a lot of money.

“She borrowed money from friends in the city, first at an interest rate of 10 to 20 percent and later at a higher rate, because she had to borrow more to pay the excessive interest,” he said.

He said the local head of a real estate company who loaned Gu 180 million yuan had committed suicide.

It was George Graham Vest who, in 1870, said, “The one absolutely unselfish friend that a man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him and the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous is his dog.”

Dogs have been touted to be man�s best friend. And a dog in China has shown that he is indeed his master�s best friend.

His owner Lao Pan, who died aged 68 earlier this month, lived alone in a little house in the village of Panjiatun with just the dog for company.

In a tear-jerking display of loyalty, this faithful yellow dog cannot bear to be parted from his master, refusing to leave his late master’s graveside even after going seven days without food.

The little yellow dog refuses to leave the graveside of his late master Lao Pan.

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Jutting out from a sheer rock face 4,700 ft high, the glass skywalk in Zhangjiajie National Forest Park makes knees go weak and is definitely not for the faint-hearted and those who suffer from vertigo.

The skywalk

The walkway, made of tempered glass about 2.5 in thick, spans 200 ft of a two-km loop encircling the vertical cliffs of Tianmen Mountain in China’s Hunan province, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Tianmen mountain, literally translated as Heavenly Gate Mountain is so called because of a huge natural cave that occurs halfway up to the summit.

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Greyson Chance shot to fame singing Lady Gaga�s �Paparazzi�. Maria Aragon too catapulted into the limelight singing Lady Gaga�s �Born This Way�. Will Lao Lai Qiao Gaga be the next act to achieve stardom after singing their translated version of Lady Gaga�s �Bad Romance�?

As part of the mid-autumn festival celebrations, China’s Hunan TV aired an unique Lady Gaga cover: A choir performance by Lao Lai Qiao GAGA, translated as “Old Folks Going GAGA.”

The performance opened with young girls playing traditional Chinese instruments made of glass, who then made way for the plain-clothes gang of old folks singing jovially to the tune of Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance.” Providing their own lyrics in Mandarin Chinese, the old folks have moving sets and gently choreographed dance moves to make for an odd, but adorable performance.

Despite the smiling seniors, their translated lyrics suggest a life of loneliness as opposed to Lady Gaga’s raunchy lyrics about obsessive romance gone wrong. The choir sings about trying to stay amused in old age and failing to get the attention of their hard-working grown children:

Your working days are too many, you hardly ever come home

At the other end of the phone, you’re always busy with no end in sight

Busy with no end

Busy, busy, busy without end.

Your old folks pass their days learning and finding ways to amuse themselves

Cut back on the little details, but HOLD on to those grand occasions

Have to HOLD on,

Hold, hold, hold, have to HOLD on.

Beloved son, watch the singing on TV

Your father and mother didn’t make any mistakes, did they?

Tonight, HOLD on as you see Mum & Dad within a second GO GAGA!

If you’re satisfied, please stand up and applaud

Don’t make us too nervous

If you’re happy, sing along with us

Give us our moment on stage

Lao Lai Qiao Gaga - Old Folks Going Gaga

With Hunan TV being China’s most popular satellite channel, the performance was seen by millions of Chinese people worldwide. And the video has gone viral. May the force of Lady Gaga be with you!

Meet 7-year-old Huang Doudou, a girl from Urumqi, Mongolia.

Doudou�s tragic life recently stirred up much controversy in Chinese media after her shocking story became viral.

At the tender age of just seven she has to perform three �times a night, four nights a week as a restaurant dancer for 800 yuan (about $130) a month to help pay for her dancing tuition and support her disabled parents.

Huang Doudou strutting her dance routine at the restaurant

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Today is truly a sad day. The flame of life was extinguished for two young girls – one in China and the other in Singapore.

Wang Yue, the Chinese girl left bleeding on the road after being run over by two different vehicles and then ignored by 18 passersby, has finally died.

Yue Yue has succumbed to the horrific brain injuries sustained in the accident

The case of two-year-old Wang , also known as Yue Yue, triggered a furore worldewide. It is truly appalling that such callousness could occur and many incensed netizens blasted China, condemning it for becoming� an ‘immoral modern society’. Her story was featured by all the major news media worldwide. The video footage sparked a global outcry about the state of morality in China’s fast-changing society.

In Singapore, six-year-old Charmaine Lim lost her battle against neuroblastoma, a rare type of cancer. Over the past two and half years, Charmaine fought a courageous battle against the cancer. Singaporeans rallied to help raise funds for her to go to the US for treatment. Despite her sufferings, she took things in her stride, earning her the nickname Feisty Princess Charmaine.

Charmaine Lim - The Feisty Princess

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A new makeover TV show in China has generated a lot of buzz online after a microblog post provokes a lot of controversy about the show on Weibo, China’s Twitter equivalent. The post has been reposted more than 60,000 times since it appeared two days ago. The post has over 13,000 comments and is one of the top trending topics on the microblogging service Sina Weibo.

Beauty Makeover

The English translation of the microblog post read: �Sweet, charming, and lovely, Beauty Class will allow you to reinvent yourself, from an ugly duckling to the white swan. Afraid to wear low-cut tops? Afraid to wear miniskirts? No problem, let us teach you how to change into an S-figure, to cultivate you into a charming collection, transform you into an perfect woman. This is not a legend, all of the magic is at ? http://t.cn/a36Rmb http://t.cn/a3ExkL.

The post is a promotion for an upcoming TV program which aims to make over female contestants. However, netizens have been quick to point out that the show is merely a parade of scantily-dressed women for TV viewers to ogle.

Reactions from netizens have been mixed. Many men said they would be keen to watch such a show, while others felt the women are demeaning themselves for the sake of being in the spotlight. Judge for yourself from the photos below:

China's new makeover show

China's new makeover show

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Liu Bolin, a fine arts graduate and an artist best-known as the real-life invisible man, is at it again, painting himself for his photograph collection �Hiding in the City�� this time against a supermarket shelf.

Liu Bolin in supermarket

Chinese-born Liu has mastered the art of camouflaging himself against a variety of backdrops and taking photos of the impressive results. The talented 38-year-old has travelled far and wide disguising himself across many surroundings, including a London phone box, a pile of bricks, the Beijing Olympic stadium, a Venetian canal and a graffiti-covered wall.

Liu appears to blend naturally into the colourful stocked-up shelf of soda bottles and Pepsi cans. Can you see him in the photo below?

Can you see Liu Bolin?

The artwork entitled �Plasticizer� was created to express his speechlessness at use of plasticizer in food additives.

According to the Liu, each photograph can take months of planning and the actual paint job can take up to ten hours.

The actual paint job for each photo can take up to ten hours.

I just read about the Breast-Touching Festival. Isn�t it laughable that in our modern world, such superstitions still exist? Superstition really drives people to do many wacky things!

The seventh month of the Chinese Lunar calendar, known as the Hungry Ghost month, began on July 31 this year.

During the Hungry Ghost month, many superstitious Chinese believe ghosts return to the human realm as the Hell Gate is open throughout the month. While the Buddhists and Taoists prepare offerings for the homeless ghosts, a minority tribe in China has their own interesting celebration.

The still single Yi people in Ejia town of Yunnan province will head to the streets for Breast-Touching Festival (Monai Jie) on the 14th, 15th and 16th days of the month. On these days, the men are welcome to touch the women’s breasts without fear of facing molestation charges.

Breast Touching Festival celebrated by Yi tribe in Yunnan Province in China

Legend has it that the festival began around the Sui Dynasty (AD 581 – 619) when most of the teenagers of the Yi tribe were forced into the army and died in wars.

The people then carried out prayers to commemorate the dead, and it happened that the ceremony was held in the seventh month. According to the myths, the restless spirits of the young men who had died before they had the chance to touch a woman would claim 10 pure and untouched ladies during this ‘Hungry Ghost Month’ to accompany them in the afterworld.

In a move to prevent them from being chosen, the single women – aged 15 and above – then asked the men to touch their breasts, and the custom is past down for generations.

Touch my breasts....I don't wanna go to hell

Maybe the Chinese government should promote the Breast-Touching Festival. If they do that, I won�t be surprised that the town of Ejia would be crowded with male tourists during this festival.

If you are faced with the choice – be touched by unseen forces or by a real live man – which is the lesser of two evils for you?”

China�s popular actress and microblogging queen Yao Chen has more than 10 million followers on China�s microblogging site Sina Weibo. She has got more microblog followers than Ashton Kutcher’s Twitter.� With China’s huge population and an ever-increasing broadband penetration, Yao will soon outrank Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber as having the most microblogging followers.

Yao Chen

Sina.com.cn crowned Yao as the “queen of microblog” when her microblog at t.sina.com.cn/yaochen� garnered more than five million followers in January. Her engagement with current world events, addressing social and political issues in Weibo, has won her the huge number of followers.

Yao Chen was born on 5 October 1979 in Shishi City, Quanzhou, Fujian province, China to a middle-class family. She first studied Chinese folk dance at the Beijing Dance Academy from 1993 to 1997, before moving on to study at the Beijing Film Academy from 1999 to 2003.

Yao Chen in Vogue China

The charismatic actress shot to fame in 2006 for her acting debut role as the daughter of a powerful martial artist in popular 1995 sitcom “My Own Swordsmen”.� Following this, in 2008, she played the part of an iconic guerilla leader in the series Undercover. Her first stage appearance was as a white-collar heroine in A Story of Lala’s Promotion (2009). She has since appeared as Mango in Feng Xiaogang’s If You Are the One 2 (2010), in Chen Yili�s Colour Me Love (2010) and in Shang Jing�s My Own Swordsman (2011). She won the Golden Eagle Award for Best Actress in 2010.

In 2004 Yao Chen married the Chinese actor Ling Xiao Su, but they divorced in January 2011.

Yao Chen and her ex-hubby Ling Xiaosu

In 2011 Yao Chen visited Mae La refugee camp in northern Thailand as UNHCR�s Honorary Patron for China. The number of followers of her microblogging during this visit increased dramatically, won over by her sincere, fearless communication and her honest engagement with current world events. As she left Mae La she said, “I hope to spend part of every year with refugees.”

Yao is the first non-Twitter microblogger among the world�s 10 most followed microbloggers. Sina said, �Her charisma is attributed to the honesty expressed in her postings, which are like text messages sent between old friends.”

Yao Chen...China's microblogging queen