UPDATE, 2/20/13, 2:47 am: On February 15, Robert McDowell emailed us his side of the story: that he was drugged, a fact that “everyone knows.” He claimed the girl confessed. “If I was a rapist then I would be in jail right now,” he wrote. We’ve removed the image of him first found on The Nanfang.... Read more »
A bus carrying 48 people, 46 of whom were students on their way to Yongzhou’s Daxian county in Hunan province to take an exam, drove off a 30-meter cliff yesterday at around 5 pm in Yongzhou. Two students died instantly, and two more died after failed medical treatment. Three more are severely injured. Once again,... Read more »
The wife and son of famous painter Li Laoshi, who killed himself by jumping off a building in 1996, were caught on taught recently in a nasty, violent brawl that left the wife seriously injured.
The timestamp on the video says September 21, but this was posted to Youku just two days ago and has already been viewed 1.5 million times. You'll see a dispute turn violent quickly, with both parties wielding weapons. (Perhaps the cause was over the vehicles blocking the road?)
Rappelling has never had a finer day.
On Tuesday afternoon, a fire department in Xining, Qinghai province in western China fielded a call about a man who was threatening to kill himself after a domestic dispute. When rescue workers arrived, they found him on the ledge of a bedroom window, both feet dangling outside, and clutching a two-year-old child in his arms. Was he planning on jumping with the toddler to make this a suicide-murder? And all because of a disagreement with his wife, as Xinhua reports?
Jon Huntsman, the one-time presidential hopeful and former US ambassador to China, has probably said more sensible things about China to more Americans in the last year than just about anyone in the world. It was only earlier this year, after all, that he trashed his own party’s approach to China, saying, “I don’t know what... Read more »
“If there are lessons to be learned from the sexpo, perhaps one is to be careful how you use your newly purchased toy,” notes RFH at the end of his story for Danwei about the Guangzhou Sex Culture Festival. If only this 30-year-old man in Shanghai had gotten the memo. A stomach-rumbling tale via Shanghai Daily: Doctors at Zhongshan Hospital... Read more »
Gotta say, I love the way netizens treat serious news stories here: with equally serious music. Can you feel your heartbeat as you watch this photo slideshow? Again, I call on you good people to help identify the theme song. Fifteen people on a bus were injured after it got struck by a cargo-hauling train... Read more »
We all know the teenage years of a child’s life is filled with change, but not usually like this. A 16-year-old girl named Nana in Jinhua, Zhejiang province — photographed above on October 11 – has been suffering from aplastic anemia for two years, according to Xinhua, and undergoing potent drug therapy. One of the side effects,... Read more »
They’re rioting again in Sichuan province. Tea Leaf Nation reports that yesterday evening, an anti-police protest turned violent after three police officers beat a driver to death in broad daylight in front of several witnesses. (Someone at the scene began filming after the driver was killed; the video is embedded here — no matter who you... Read more »
Were you somewhere other than Hong Kong this weekend? You mean you weren’t watching the city’s first-ever soapbox derby, sponsored by Red Bull? You sad, sad fool. The blog Hong Wrong says about 30,000 people turned out, and judging by the video, it was quite the spectacle. The Telegraph notes: The teams were judged on creativity, showmanship and... Read more »
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