Hong Kong property developer Cecil Chao Sze-tsung, looking very much like a tycoon in the above picture, has offered HK$500 million for the man who marries his daughter, Gigi Chao. Emphasis: man. For you see, there is one slight problem, as reported by South China Morning Post: Rejecting suggestions Gigi, 33, is a lesbian and describing... Read more »
Ian Bennett, who runs the travel mini-video-series website Follow the Foot, caught some Chinese people engaged in very interesting park exercises not long ago, but instead of doing what most of us would -- watch from afar -- he hopped in. This enviable video is the result, with music by The Careless Lovers - "Blue Turning Grey Over You."
In another era, Wang Xiaolei would be just another overweight public official in Zhengzhou, Henan province. But in the era of ubiquitous surveillance cameras, he's a publicly outed asshole, thanks to one of his recent actions being caught on tape: he's seen hurling a trash can at the female manager of a China Mobile Store, then further assaulting her and throwing her on the ground. We clearly see him going back and trying to pick up the trash can, presumably to beat her some more, but he's thankfully restrained by his wife, who happens to also work at the store. The dispute allegedly began when the manager, Wang Ke, refused to grant Wang Xiaolei's wife time off.
China loves its robots, and we don't mean Hu Jintao. As ITN reports, this country "currently tops the world in robotics competitions in terms of how many people take part." Take, for instance, the first Beijing College Student Robotics Competition over the weekend at Beijing Information Science and Technology University. About 300 people from 99 teams from Beijing and Taiwan took part, showing off robots that could dance like Michael Jackson and play five-a-side soccer. There was even one that performed moves (poorly, I'd say) to PSY's Gangnam Style.
About 200 men participated in the first round of auditions on Saturday for the ATV 2012 Mr. Asia contest, the finals of which will be held on November 18. Before we proceed, you should know that the five contestants pictured above are named Wong Chak Fung, Lee Si Tung, Wat Ho Ming, Wong Ching Chung, and... Read more »
Something called the “National Peasants’ Games” — the 7th edition, in fact — is currently being held in Nanyang, Henan province, which People’s Daily Online describes as a “quadrennial multi- “in which sport event… in which competitors from among the country’s rural residents take part in sports, both conventional, including basketball, athletics, table tennis, shooting,... Read more »
In case you've forgotten, The Simpsons is set to begin its 24th season this Sunday, which is an amazing accomplishment no matter much you've complained about its last 15 seasons as being "not what it used to be."
As a preview, the producers have released this short -- viewed 2.7 million times already in four days -- to satirize the good ol' American election process.
The Wukan protests that began last year over illegal land seizure might have seemed, at the start, unspectacular, merely another in the hundreds of rallies that happen every year in China. But with each passing day — and each development reported breathlessly by embedded reporters — the demonstrations revealed themselves to be a bit more... Read more »
From CRI, anti-Japan body painting at “2012 Nanjing Autumn Real Estate Trade Fair,” via Shanghaiist Diaoyu Island stories are winding down for sure, but the National Congress is right around the corner. We keep chugging along with links.
Via John Saeki Wang Lijun, who will forevermore be known as “flamboyant” in Western media, was sentenced to 15 years in prison today on four counts, “defection” probably being the gravest. That he did not get a more severe sentence is interesting, and bodes unwell for his one-time comrade Bo Xilai, with whom he will... Read more »
