diff --git a/resources/recipes/bbc_chinese.recipe b/resources/recipes/bbc_chinese.recipe
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e2bff81b90
--- /dev/null
+++ b/resources/recipes/bbc_chinese.recipe
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
+
+class AdvancedUserRecipe1277443634(BasicNewsRecipe):
+    title          = u'BBC Chinese'
+    oldest_article = 7
+    max_articles_per_feed = 100
+
+    feeds          = [
+	(u'\u4e3b\u9875', u'http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/index.xml'),
+	(u'\u56fd\u9645\u65b0\u95fb', u'http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/world/index.xml'),
+	(u'\u4e24\u5cb8\u4e09\u5730', u'http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/china/index.xml'),
+	(u'\u91d1\u878d\u8d22\u7ecf', u'http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/business/index.xml'),
+	(u'\u7f51\u4e0a\u4e92\u52a8', u'http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/interactive/index.xml'),
+	(u'\u97f3\u89c6\u56fe\u7247', u'http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/multimedia/index.xml'),
+	(u'\u5206\u6790\u8bc4\u8bba', u'http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/indepth/index.xml')
+	]
+    extra_css = '''
+    	@font-face {font-family: "DroidFont", serif, sans-serif; src: url(res:///system/fonts/DroidSansFallback.ttf); }\n
+	body {margin-right: 8pt; font-family: 'DroidFont', serif;}\n
+                    h1 {font-family: 'DroidFont', serif;}\n
+                    .articledescription {font-family: 'DroidFont', serif;}
+            '''
+    __author__            = 'rty'
+    __version__            = '1.0'
+    language = 'zh'
+    pubisher  = 'British Broadcasting Corporation'
+    description           = 'BBC news in Chinese'
+    category              = 'News, Chinese'
+    remove_javascript = True
+    use_embedded_content   = False
+    no_stylesheets = True
+    encoding               = 'UTF-8'
+    conversion_options = {'linearize_tables':True}
+    masthead_url = 'http://wscdn.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/images/1024/brand.jpg'
+    keep_only_tags = [
+                              dict(name='h1'),
+                              dict(name='p', attrs={'class':['primary-topic','summary']}),
+                              dict(name='div', attrs={'class':['bodytext','datestamp']}),
+                              ]
diff --git a/resources/recipes/singtao_daily.recipe b/resources/recipes/singtao_daily.recipe
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..bb5280c062
--- /dev/null
+++ b/resources/recipes/singtao_daily.recipe
@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+from calibre.web.feeds.recipes import BasicNewsRecipe
+
+class AdvancedUserRecipe1278063072(BasicNewsRecipe):
+    title          = u'Singtao Daily - Canada'
+    oldest_article = 7
+    max_articles_per_feed = 100
+    __author__            = 'rty'
+    description           = 'Toronto Canada Chinese Newspaper'
+    publisher             = 'news.singtao.ca'
+    category              = 'Chinese, News, Canada'
+    remove_javascript = True
+    use_embedded_content   = False
+    no_stylesheets = True
+    language = 'zh'
+    conversion_options = {'linearize_tables':True}
+    masthead_url = 'http://news.singtao.ca/i/site_2009/logo.jpg'
+    extra_css = '''
+        @font-face {font-family: "DroidFont", serif, sans-serif; src: url(res:///system/fonts/DroidSansFallback.ttf); }\
+
+    body {text-align: justify; margin-right: 8pt; font-family: 'DroidFont', serif;}\
+
+                    h1 {font-family: 'DroidFont', serif;}\
+
+                    .articledescription {font-family: 'DroidFont', serif;}
+            '''
+    keep_only_tags = [
+    dict(name='div', attrs={'id':['title','storybody']}),
+    dict(name='div', attrs={'class':'content'})
+    ]
+
+    def parse_index(self):
+            feeds = []
+            for title, url in [
+                ('Editorial', 'http://news.singtao.ca/toronto/editorial.html'),
+                    ('Toronto \xe5\x9f\x8e\xe5\xb8\x82/\xe7\xa4\xbe\xe5\x8d\x80', 'http://news.singtao.ca/toronto/city.html'),
+                    ('Canada \xe5\x8a\xa0\xe5\x9c\x8b', 'http://news.singtao.ca/toronto/canada.html'),
+         ('Entertainment', 'http://news.singtao.ca/toronto/entertainment.html'),
+    ('World', 'http://news.singtao.ca/toronto/world.html'),
+    ('Finance \xe5\x9c\x8b\xe9\x9a\x9b\xe8\xb2\xa1\xe7\xb6\x93', 'http://news.singtao.ca/toronto/finance.html'),
+    ('Sports', 'http://news.singtao.ca/toronto/sports.html'),
+                            ]:
+               articles = self.parse_section(url)
+               if articles:
+                   feeds.append((title, articles))
+            return feeds
+
+    def parse_section(self, url):
+            soup = self.index_to_soup(url)
+            div = soup.find(attrs={'class': ['newslist paddingL10T10','newslist3 paddingL10T10']})
+            #date = div.find(attrs={'class': 'underlineBLK'})
+            current_articles = []
+            for li in div.findAll('li'):
+                    a = li.find('a', href = True)
+                    if a is None:
+                        continue
+                    title = self.tag_to_string(a)
+                    url = a.get('href', False)
+                    if not url or not title:
+                        continue
+                    if url.startswith('/'):
+                         url = 'http://news.singtao.ca'+url
+          #          self.log('\    \    Found article:', title)
+          #          self.log('\    \    \    ', url)
+                    current_articles.append({'title': title, 'url': url, 'description':''})
+
+            return current_articles
+
+    def preprocess_html(self, soup):
+        for item in soup.findAll(style=True):
+           del item['style']
+        for item in soup.findAll(width=True):
+           del item['width']
+        return soup
diff --git a/src/calibre/gui2/library/views.py b/src/calibre/gui2/library/views.py
index 09c1f8478b..9d85dce075 100644
--- a/src/calibre/gui2/library/views.py
+++ b/src/calibre/gui2/library/views.py
@@ -501,8 +501,9 @@ class DeviceBooksView(BooksView): # {{{
 
     def contextMenuEvent(self, event):
         self.edit_collections_menu.setVisible(
-                            self._model.db.supports_collections() and \
-                            prefs['preserve_user_collections'])
+            callable(getattr(self._model.db, 'supports_collections', None)) and \
+            self._model.db.supports_collections() and \
+            prefs['preserve_user_collections'])
         self.context_menu.popup(event.globalPos())
         event.accept()