Inside the 15th century Id Kah Mosque (Kashgar, Xinjiang, China) during salah, one of five compulsory daily prayers recited by Muslims to entreat Allah.

As seen in Tom Carter's CHINA: Portrait of a People, the most comprehensive book of photography on modern China ever published by a single author. Available now from Blacksmith Books.

PBS's wonderful site on China's rise as a world power. Loads of facts, figures and photos.

From American Citizen Services in Shenyang:

Have you registered to vote for the 2008 general election yet? If not, now is the time to do so!

The official U.S. voter assistance website is: http://www.fvap.gov. Please visit this site for the most complete, up-to-date information on voting abroad. Basic information can be found below.

A 23 year old pretty Shanghai girl posts her pictures on the Chinese Liba Forum looking for an honest husband, with double eyelids, that can take care of her.

Windows only: PPstream is a peer-to-peer (P2P, or if you must, PP) video client that allows for live streaming and sharing of television and movies from China. Catch favorites such as CCTV (中国中央电视台) channels 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, and 17, movies of questionable legality and plenty of Olympics. The PP streams offer a golden opportunity to soak up a deluge of TV from China.

These Olympics are cheap, dirt cheap! With tickets as cheap as 30 RMB and beers selling for 5, there won't be an Olympics this cheap for a long time.

The US track team have the dreadded 拉肚子 also known as Diarrhea. Here's a quick run down of why when in China you should take your shoes off when at home, why to drink from the bottle and why to always wash those hands. And a picture never to forget.

Have you seen those ExxonMobil anti-malaria ads during the Olympics coverage? Well, what about the company's other CSR initiatives in China?

Here is a fun story on the Lost Laowai blog, about how the Chinese soccer fans have parodied the 'Beijing Welcomes You' to insult their own team . . .

But did you have to include Furong Jiejie in the article, Rick?

41-year-old Hong Kong man who almost lost his penis as a result of intercourse with a steel park bench.