Online-only news site for China buffs, from a Western perspective. Created by the Prague-based European Internet Network. Unless you have Chinese fonts and know how to use them with your browser, you won't get much from this site run by the official Communist Party daily in Beijing. But it's interesting to look at nonetheless. An online daily English-language newspaper in Shanghai.
Shanghai is one of the fastest-developing cities in China.
And for the funny and weird side of the news, read Spice. You'll need Indonesian language ability to read the Surabaya Post , but the images can at least give you an idea of what's going on in the nation. A leading Japanese daily's English-language site. You can also read the paper in Japanese if you have the correct fonts. The Japan Times gives you both daily and weekly news summaries, as well as a number of other features to peruse, including a cartoon.