If flowers and a romantic dinner aren't enough to impress this Valentine's Day, try these special spa deals and packages for two.

Spring Festival tales of woe are common from single Chinese friends and colleagues, with may parents stepping up the pressure at this time of year to find someone, get married and perpetuate the family line. The Global Times reported today that at least one cashed-up Beida student has come up with an innovative solution to parental pressures – rent a boyfriend for Chunjie.

Valentine's Day is almost upon us. We've prepared this special list of special places to take that special someone for a meal they won't forget.

Valentine's Day is just around the corner, but not all of us are lucky enough to have a lover, wife, "special friend" to share meals with. Need a table for one? Don’t wither under the smirks. Hold your (sniveling) head high and tuck in at one of these singles-friendly establishments.

It’s always entertaining reading China’s state-owned newspapers, especially when they find a story that mixes latent local resentments and with puffed up national pride. People’s Daily, for example, recently carried a brilliantly incisive piece of journalism entitled: “Japanese girls want to marry Chinese.”

The final month of the year is traditionally time for end of year roundups, though it seems some Chinese internet sites couldn't wait for December. China Hush has compiled a list of the hottest instant celebrities on the internet in China in 2009, based lists posted on several Chinese-language sites.

Earlier this week the English-language edition of the Global Times carried an unnerving report about the scourge of knock-off condoms. According to the article “a third of the condom market in some areas comprises knock-offs,” which provide little or no protection against pregnancies or STDs.

Is there nothing the mighty Chinese nation cannot do? At a time when the country has been busy staving off the worst effects of a global economic meltdown, China has also managed to increase its sexual satisfaction rating by a staggering 45 percent in just 18 months.

Because two adorable cartoon police officers are watching you, from this Saturday. The police officers, named Jing and Cha (following the same brilliant naming scheme that engendered the fuwas), will pop up every half-hour on the thirteen largest China-based Internet portals. City officials have promised that the two cyber-cops will expand their beat to all websites registered in Beijing by the end of the year.