Did you know the musical Cats has a Mandarin version, and is currently in Beijing? It debuted in Shanghai in August before swinging by Guangzhou and Chongqing, and 100 shows later, is now playing at Century Theater in this city.
Via Xinhua: The top legislature on Monday began deliberating a draft decision that will strengthen the protection of personal information online by requiring Internet users to identify themselves to service providers.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgxGtN-AT7I] Shocking surveillance footage, recently released, shows a woman basically exploding because she happened to stand next to a sewage drain during an underground explosion. The incident happened on November 30 outside the east gate of Chaoyang District’s Taiyanggong State Fair.
If the story of a shark tank bursting onto pedestrians wasn’t enough, we now have video! The folks over at Deadspin posted this earlier, and yeah, it sort of makes the story. Without it, we only have a shark tank breaking. With it, there’s drama, horror.
If you live in Beijing and enjoy taking pictures, there’s a job opening that might interest you. The Asia Society Center on US-China Relations is losing its Beijing photographer and needs a replacement to take one pic per day of the city’s skyline as part of its ongoing China Air Daily project, produced by Michael Zhao.
In Yongkang, Zhejiang province last Friday, a 31-year-old millionaire named Du Guanghua had dinner with an employee who got a bit too drunk and fell into a river. Du dove after his colleague, 20-year-old Zhao Shengxi. Only one of them came out of the water alive.
Via Global Times: A well-intentioned young woman has made a habit of feeding mice in her building every evening, because she thinks they are cute. But her kindness eventually attracted more mice, which also gnawed on the wires in the building, prompting many complaints from her neighbors.
Pickpocketing is a tough profession. It doesn’t pay much, for one. The legal risks are high. And if you get caught — at a university dorm, for instance — your existence will pretty much be disavowed by everyone you care about, and whatever happens, happens.
