Neil Robinson, 47, of Staines in Surrey, England, who has been wanted since 2002 for the distribution of underage porn and child rape, was detained by Beijing police early yesterday, according to Beijing News (which proceeds to ask many of the questions we've posed, and calls for increased background checks on foreign teachers).
It’s only natural for zookeepers to worry about caged animals getting loose. What is fairly obviously not normal, however, is having humans don animal suits to simulate this scenario, for “training” purposes. These pictures were taken recently from Taiyuan Zoo in Shanxi province. Look at this one: there’s a guy in a white lab coat... Read more »
A chef’s carelessness has left one dead and 20 sick, including two in critical condition. Xinhua reports that a cook in Inner Mongolia mistakenly used pesticide, identified as carbofuran, instead of edible and non-poisonous sauce while whipping up lunch on Tuesday. Those who ingested it were migrant workers working on the Beijing-Tibet Expressway expansion project in Baotou, employed... Read more »
Last Thursday at 11 pm, a 26-year-old Chinese man parked his new Mercedes on Brighton Avenue. What happened next, we'll let the Boston Globe tell it.
A man in dark clothes got out [of an old sedan that swerved behind him] and approached the passenger window. It was nearly 11 p.m. last Thursday.
The man rapped on the glass, speaking quickly. Danny, unable to hear him, lowered the window -- and the man reached an arm through, unlocked the door, and climbed in, brandishing a silver handgun.
A mere two days after 21 were killed in violent attacks in Bachu county, Kashgar, including six police and six ethnic Uighurs, Beijing has politicized the incident, using it to call out the United States for failing to condemn the attacks as "terrorism." Reuters:
But the U.S. State Department on Wednesday merely expressed regret at the loss of life and urged China to "provide all Chinese citizens, including Uighurs, the due process protections to which they're entitled."
We haven't done one of these in a while. Watch alongside this friendly police officer in Tongxiang, Zhejiang province as cars ram into motorcycles and scooters. Don't drive like this, people.
These links posts are getting longer, but not for lack of selectivity on our part. Five New York Times stories are featured in tonight's edition, led by Ed Wong's much-bandied piece on pollution's effects on tots.
Neil Robinson is wanted by the Surrey police “in connection with the distribution of indecent images of children and the rape of a child,” according to BBC’s Crimewatch. This bit of info was posted to Reddit China by user gaiushe yesterday, who claims he has known Robinson for the past five years and is certain that he... Read more »
![Xinhua Has Truly Outdone Itself With Latest Slideshow Featuring A Baby’s Dick In A Cup [UPDATE]](http://beijingcream.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Baby-dick-in-a-cup-censored-160x120.png "Xinhua Has Truly Outdone Itself With Latest Slideshow Featuring A Baby’s Dick In A Cup [UPDATE]")
