Three quarters down, the Beijing Ducks looked out. Playing at home against the woeful Fujian Sturgeons, a 5-8 team ranked 14th out of 17, the Ducks found themselves inexplicably down nine with 12 minutes to play, a decidedly uninspiring showing from a first-place team that had just notched its signature win of the young season by... Read more »
Try this story on for size and see if you believe it. A woman lives with identical twin guys, Lin Weihao and Lin Weizhuang, one of whom is her boyfriend. In March 2010, after heavy drinking by everyone, she walks into the wrong man’s bedroom, i.e. not her boyfriend’s. She has sex with him, gets... Read more »
Did you know the musical Cats has a Mandarin version, and is currently in Beijing? It debuted in Shanghai in August before swinging by Guangzhou and Chongqing, and 100 shows later, is now playing at Century Theater in this city.
Via Xinhua: The top legislature on Monday began deliberating a draft decision that will strengthen the protection of personal information online by requiring Internet users to identify themselves to service providers.
BJC's An Expat Christmas series is winding down, but we wouldn't leave without a story from Shanghai. William Childress writes about friends, food, and transience in the big city.
We're lucky, in Shanghai, to be in a city with so many foreigners that we can essentially experience the holidays as we would in our native land. But don't get me wrong -- we're not exactly in an expatriate haven.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgxGtN-AT7I] Shocking surveillance footage, recently released, shows a woman basically exploding because she happened to stand next to a sewage drain during an underground explosion. The incident happened on November 30 outside the east gate of Chaoyang District’s Taiyanggong State Fair.
If the story of a shark tank bursting onto pedestrians wasn’t enough, we now have video! The folks over at Deadspin posted this earlier, and yeah, it sort of makes the story. Without it, we only have a shark tank breaking. With it, there’s drama, horror.
If you live in Beijing and enjoy taking pictures, there’s a job opening that might interest you. The Asia Society Center on US-China Relations is losing its Beijing photographer and needs a replacement to take one pic per day of the city’s skyline as part of its ongoing China Air Daily project, produced by Michael Zhao.
