If you thought Bo Xilai was expelled from the Communist Party of China in September, you’re only half right. (Okay, 99 percent right.) Today it was made official after a meeting of 500 top party officials in Beijing in what must have been the easiest decision they’ll make this month. Nothing now stands in the way... Read more »
If everyone who visited Beijing could produce a video like this one from Peter Laermans, the rest of us would be grateful. Sit back and see if you recognize, in these images, any of this wonderful city of ours. The song, of course, is Caliban’s Dream by Underworld. Youku video for those in China after the... Read more »
Via Russia Today's YouTube description:
A rare white lion cub was born in on Tuesday in China's Quanzhou Amusement Park in eastern Fujian Province. The cub's parents were both normal African lions with a yellow/brown coloring which makes the white lion even more unusual. Since it was the first time the female lion had given birth, keepers were worried about feeding problems so found a dog to nurse the lion cub along with her puppies.
Beijing folk, do you hear the water filling your radiators as we speak? Central heating has arrived not a day too soon, considering the temperature on this rainy night is dipping toward freezing.
A bus in Shanxi province, time unknown, flew off the road and into a ditch more than two meters deep, flipping at least once along the way, killing three of the 24 passengers, two of them instantly. Want to see what that looks like? Great! Look at the above video.
That weird, shiny, spaceship-like gob of postmodernity on Second Ring Road is officially alive. “Busses full of local students mingled with other architecture fanatics to get a first official glimpse of the cities newest archi-gem” last Saturday, reports the architect website Archinet. At the opening event, Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid, who designed this perfect landing pad... Read more »
The rapidly approaching 18th National Congress has claimed is first victim. Ren Changlin, 53, suffered a heart attack during his 30th consecutive hour at his post at a security bureau in Shenyang, Liaoning province on October 30. He “threw himself into the work,” notes Shenyang Daily. There’s no indication that Ren was forced to work so... Read more »
Via Discovery We’ve just switched servers, and as you may have noticed, many of our posts have been randomly disappearing as a result. This is normal — however annoying. But we’re going to step out of the way and let the DNS properly propagate. By this time tomorrow, hopefully all the problems will be solved. In... Read more »
