As China ramps up Internet restrictions, companies like Sina Weibo are demonstrating they’ve clearly gotten the message by passing on the consequences to you, the user. Via Tech in Asia: Users of Sina Weibo that mention things somewhat more controversial than cats or food might find their posts being delayed – by seven whole days. The Twitter-like Sina Weibo... Read more »
The Shenzhen ad firm Lanbite Advertising has come under fire recently for an eight-meter-high billboard on the Shenzhen-Hong Kong border that shows four naked children playing in the grass. SCMP has the news: Since the advert first appeared late last month, tens of thousands of commuters passing between Lok Ma Chau and Huanggang in Shenzhen... Read more »
This is kind of a sad story not at all befitting the circus music in the video, with no comedic kick. A bull in Wuhan, Hubei province managed to escape from its slaughterhouse on Saturday — who knows what inspirational dash it made, eluding its human captors while cheered by his fellow inmates as if... Read more »
Huang Na says pillow fights can be an outlet for stress, so she organized one involving more than 200 participants in Shanghai recently, just in time for the holidays. (ITN)
Peeping weekly at the best (and worst) that was, is, and will be on the China blogosphere.
The weblogs which concern us here are a mix of vanity press and sociopolitical discussion forums. But first and foremost, they are terrains where weblords attempt to manage and regulate discussion, cross-cultural differences and those rotten anarchic impulses intended to derail thread trajectory. And it goes without saying that different sites attract different digital communities. Throw in market share, monetisation ("Meet Juicyfruit: I love the hip hop and r@b. Design the handbag"), a couple of the seven deadly sins, and it's time to discuss those About and Commenting Rules buttons.
In Heyuan, Guangdong province — on December 2, according to the surveillance monitor’s timestamp (though the video was uploaded only three days ago) — two police officers stood back and watched as gangsters with cudgels and sticks beat the crap out of at least two people. No one quite knows the cause of the fight... Read more »
If you spill it, they will come. We’ve seen it before: a vehicle carrying a perishable good overturns; people flock from all corners to bag the fresh groceries. This happened twice in the last few days. The first time, on Thursday, an apple truck in Shaanxi province tipped over, attracting about 60 people. The very next day,... Read more »
As with dog years, so is it with China years – one here is equivalent to several most places else. They just fit more in. When it comes to pace of change, no-one else holds a candle really.
I’ve been out of China for two years. For a dog, that’s ten human years, and you could argue the rate for China is about the same. It’s like leaving London shortly after the millenium and coming back for the Olympics. Recognisable, but look closer and you notice all the new things.
The Daily Beast has this strange tale of a Chinese American businessman who found himself arrested by police in Guangdong province on (trumped-up? fake?) charges of being a Triad member: But Wu’s American dream would soon become a Chinese nightmare. For years, he had been embroiled in a legal fight with a former Chinese police... Read more »
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