Chow Yun Fat (54) admitted in a TV interview, while in Seoul, South Korea to promote Dragonball: Evolution, that he has had plastic surgery. He said:

"As I grew older, my eyelids began to droop. I began going for cosmetic surgery in Hong Kong when I was filming The God Of Gamblers in 1989. If you go to Hong Kong for cosmetic surgery, I can introduce you to the doctor. He’s cheap and good."

Dragonball: Evolution opens March 12 in Singapore.

A Chinese lady in Shanghai was very upset that her car was being towed, but the tow truck driver refused to release her car even though she was right there. What did she do about it? She got in her car, and drove away with the tow truck.

These very young Chinese kids are amazing acrobats. In case you’re wondering who works the hardest, it’s the boy. If you speak Chinese you’ll get the joke. Oh, and Celine Dion is really popular in China.

Two Chinese Olympic Gymnasts He Kexin and Jiang Yuyuan, who won gold medals in the Beijing 2008 Olympics, may in fact be only 14 years-old, when Olympic gymnasts are required to be 16 years-old. Both were chosen to compete late in July. Younger, and therefore smaller, gymnasts have the advantage of being able to perform difficult skills easier. There is a lot of evidence supporting claims that documents were forged around the time of the Olympics to insure He and Jiang qualified to compete. However, there is a lot of evidence, especially from Chinese government web sites, and statements from government officials confirming the claims these two athletes were under the age of 16. If these accusations are true, it cheapens how the world sees China, and causes a loss of face due to the perception that they cheated their way to gold medals. To encourage the best athletes to compete, it might be best for the Olympic committee to allow any age to compete. Click the link below to read more, and see some of the evidence.

Below are China’s Beijing Olympic Gymastic team (left to right) Cheng Fei, Yang Yilin, Li Shanshan, He Kexin, Jiang Yuyuan and Deng Linlin celebrate their victory during the awarding ceremony for gymnastics artistic women’s team final of Beijing 2008 Olympic Games at National Indoor Stadium in Beijing, China, Aug. 13, 2008. The Chinese team claimed the title of the event with a score of 188.900.

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The Chinese government is being criticized for replacing a Chinese girl at the Olympics opening ceremony in Beijing with another Chinese girl who was better looking, and for mixing in CGI fireworks with real fireworks.

Lin Miaoke (left) lip-synched at the opening ceremony over the voice of Yang Peiyi (right), who was considered visually unsuitable to appear herself because of her buck teeth, so only her voice was used. The Chinese rep said:

"The main consideration was the national interest. The child on the screen should be flawless in image, in her internal feelings, and in her expression. In the matter of her voice, Yang Peiyi was flawless, in the unanimous opinion of all the members of the team."

"We have a responsibility to face the audience of the whole country, and to be open with this explanation. We should all understand it like this, it is a question of the national interest. It is a question of the image of our national music, our national culture."

"Especially at the entrance of our national flag, this is an extremely important, an extremely serious matter."

"So we made the choice. I think it is fair to both Lin Miaoke and Yang Peiyi, after all, we have a perfect voice, a perfect image and a perfect show, in our team’s view, all together."

Yang Peiyi is said to have reacted well to the disappointment. Peiyi said:

"I am proud to have been chosen to sing at all."

That is what a report quoted the little girl as saying, but we all know she would rather have been onstage herself.

In China, putting on the best face, is the best way to save face.