This is a tale about two families who shared an apartment in Yantai, Shandong province. They’re both called Li, so that complicates things slightly, but I’ll try my best. The story is via Qilu (Shandong) Evening News. On Wednesday morning, Li and her sister were moving some stuff downstairs when they were intercepted by the apartment’s... Read more »
Sometimes the days pass too fast, can you feel it? Here’s Episode 2 of Beijing Slice, with music from The Wind Whistles (“Spooks”). Previously: Swimming In Qian Hai. |Beijing Slice Archives|
If you were counting, the “trial” lasted all of a few hours, ending just now with Gu Kailai not contesting the charge that she murdered British businessman Neil Heywood. So much for transparency of law. Did we learn anything from this process? Gu was never going to win their game, so she didn’t play. A date... Read more »
This video, posted earlier today to Youku (after the jump for those in China), depicts a truck carrying liquified petroleum erupting into flames, burning alive the driver of the truck behind it.
On Tuesday night, a man in Beijing’s Xiandai SOHO in Chaoyang District threw his Bichon Frise out of an 18th-story window, according to Legal Mirror (yes, the same that published this). If that’s the case, we have no idea how the dog survived, but it did after its fall was broken by the windshield of a Honda... Read more »
UPDATE, 10:34 am: There’s now video! Embedded after the jump. It features snippets of the original broadcast’s worst-in-the-world CCTV commentators, too. China is on fire with its sports GIFs this Olympics. Other examples: The worst call you’ll ever see on the basketball court Liz Cambage becomes first woman to dunk in the Olympics Sun Yang breathes... Read more »
You’ve probably seen kids peeing and pooping in the streets of China — and you would turn a blind eye to it, I’m sure — but have you ever seen a boy peeing into a paper cup, held by his father, at a hotpot restaurant, over food, in front of all the other diners? At... Read more »
In an article published Saturday in the Sydney Morning Herald, South African Cameron van der Burgh admitted to cheating in his world-record-setting swim in the 100-meter breaststroke. Swimmers are only allowed one dolphin kick after entering the water and one kick after the turn, but van der Burgh copped to taking multiple — because “every swimmer does that,” he... Read more »
