Did Plainclothes Officers Really Kidnap A Man In Broad Daylight In Front Of Rolling Cameras? [UPDATE]

ZDF interview Southern Weekly Jiang Di smuggled plainclothes officers
In Guangzhou recently, the German TV station Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) was interviewing a young man about Southern Weekly when a team of plainclothes police allegedly swooped in and smuggled him into a white van. The description on the YouTube video from channel ChinaNewsChannal suggests that the officers kidnapped the man, Jiang Di, because he was giving the... Read more »

Xinhua: A Furniture Factory In Hangzhou Burned For Nearly 3 Hours Before Anyone Noticed Through The “Fog”

People don't notice fire due to fog
Late Sunday night in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, a fire broke out at a furniture factory in Anji county that no one noticed for hours because they couldn’t see it through the “fog.” Xinhua has the report (my translation): Due to a thick fog cover at the time, the initial smoke and open flames actually lasted nearly... Read more »

Watch: Self-Trained Ninja In Hubei Slices Cans With Playing Cards

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China's video-sharing platforms are full of amateur card throwers and fruit ninjas (we featured one here in August who had Guinness aspirations), and the reason is pretty simple: there are more than a few people who find it cool and interesting. In Xishui county, Hubei province, for instance, one young man was so inspired by fruit-slicing card-flingers that he decided to try it himself, and after two to three years of practice and perseverance, he graduated to the ranks of sensei.

Thousands Out Themselves As Homophobes At Anti-Gay Rights Rally In Hong Kong

Anti-gay rights rally
Hong Wrong puts it perfectly: Thousands of Hong Kong Christians were unified in intolerance yesterday during a protest against homosexuality at government headquarters… In a city that loves to protest — everything from its chief executive to luxury brands — this might be the worst: people demonstrating against a perceived brave new world in which... Read more »

After Running Over Pedestrians And Continuing To Run Over Them, Driver Lets Passenger Take The Blame [Graphic]

Driver runs over pedestrians over and over
Holy-shit video time. Last Thursday in Zhengzhou, Henan province, surveillance cameras caught a driver running over a couple on the street — and then continue to run over them, and run over them, and run over them. (Viewer discretion is advised.) The good news first: the pedestrians who were run over will survive, though they... Read more »

Prominent Author And Social Critic Li Chengpeng Attacked At Beijing Book Signing

Li Chengpeng threatened
Li Chengpeng, an investigative journalist, writer, and social critic with more than 6.65 million followers on Sina Weibo, is accustomed to publicity and controversy. But physical attacks? Surely someone as brash and influential as he knows that opinions present an occupational hazard, but it’s nonetheless disheartening to see someone — anyone — physically assaulted for... Read more »