Marc van der Chijs, a successful businessman and entrepreneur who co-founded Tudou, is leaving China, and he thought you should know about it. Because he’s leaving China. Or have you not heard? No? Huh, that’s weird. Anyway, he’s leaving, and CNN Money published his farewell letter, so now you know. Basically, Marc van der Chijs is... Read more »
In Foshan, Guangdong province on March 20 at around 1 pm, a routine pullover has drawn ample controversy after accusations of police brutality. Accusations that are pretty clearly warranted, judging by the video.
The story goes that a driver, told to pull over, drove for another three kilometers, or about 70 seconds. This is against the law, surely, and the driver deserves whatever punishment comes to those who disobey police officers.
But then, once out of the car, a gaggle of cops surround the driver and begin throwing punches.
What a world we live in when the ground beneath our feet might open up any moment and suck us under. Yesterday afternoon, a five-by-eight-meter sinkhole that was reportedly four stories deep suddenly formed in a residential compound in Shenzhen. A very unlucky security guard, who happened to be walking past, never stood a chance. He died after efforts to revive him at the hospital failed.
The concept is pretty simple — set tripod in front of Tiananmen every day throughout the Two Sessions; snap picture — but Wei Yao, the photographer for Beijing Review who got the shot you see above (along with this one), explains on Reuters’s Photographers Blog that it still took a lot of work: Having the... Read more »
New York Fucking City. Goddamnit. I warn you in advance, everything that follows is merely the work of Envy, so it may not be appropriate for all audiences. A rich fucking woman bought a prestigious New York City property recently, an apartment in the unifinished One57 tower on 57th St. between Sixth and Seventh Aves. For her... Read more »
We're going to go ahead and laugh at this because the motorcylist in this video isn't dead (lucky dude), and because the explosion is almost a bit too perfect. Watch, from multiple angles, as a motorcycle runs a red light, crashes into the side of a four-wheel vehicle, and immediately self-immolates out of shame.
"The van's driver had no injuries," informs the interviewed traffic cop.
How scary is the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea? Let’s first look at the argument for “very scary.” Via Foreign Policy: North Korea today can threaten all of South Korea and parts of Japan with its conventional missiles and its conventional military. The North can fire 500,000 rounds of artillery on Seoul in the first... Read more »
This message on Sina Weibo about six Danes pissing in Shanghai: A group of laowai collectively pee on a Shanghai overpass, while smirking! Can only say __ doesn’t have national boundaries! Please fill in the blank! Bladder control? Pissing in public? Eating urine-soaked eggs? Smirking?
The idea of falling down a hole and disappearing off the face of the earth is cartoonish, reserved for Warner Brothers animators, or the fear of an imaginative child for whom laws of physics have yet to squeeze order out of the world’s underbelly of extravagant possibility. In China, however, the idea of falling down... Read more »
