Interesting Chinese news site - chinasmack.com I'm not sure if you've seen this site.  It's pretty interesting -- it translates news that is very popular in Chinese BBS / forums.

http://www.chinasmack.com/

There are lots of great stories in there, along with Chinese netizen reactions:

http://www.chinasmack.com/stories/hangzhou-street-racer-hu-bin-sentenced-3-years-prison/ ;
http://www.chinasmack.com/pictures/chinese-internet-memes-2009-year-ox/
http://www.chinasmack.com/stories/street-peddler-beaten-paralyzed-by-shanghai-chengguan/

Anyway just wanted to submit that.