Via Sneaker News Listen up, Beijingers: Blue Frog’s burgers are enjoyable, but the best Monday dinner deal in town is First Floor’s half-price-food Mondays, with happy hour on drinks until 9 pm. If you don’t believe me, go tonight and get the chicken burger with egg, which will set you back all of 35 yuan... Read more »
This is one of those stories that are a mark of contemporary China, or result of. Recently in Shanghai, an old man fainted and fell. Instead of helping him, people stood around and watched (for him to do what, exactly?), and one man, surnamed Liu, took out his phone and began filming. (Again, what for?)
Neil Bush isn’t nearly the public figure that two of his siblings, Jeb and George Walker, are, but as a businessman and philanthropist and son and brother of former U.S. presidents, he’s made the news cycle a few times in his days. (Possibly most notably — and unfortunately — for a high-profile divorce in which... Read more »
On the same day that a bus collided with a tanker in Yan'an, Shaanxi province, killing at least 36, 12 people, including three children, were killed when a van on an expressway in Sichuan province rear-ended a heavy-duty truck that was parked for tire repair. Xinhua is calling yesterday one of the "bloodiest day[s] in years," and, "In the meantime, lessons must be drawn from the accident so that such tragedies will not reoccur, said an official with the investigation team."
The video you’ve come to see appears after the jump, and it’s brutal enough as a main event that I feel like it needs an undercard. So, the above. Hair-grabbing should be banned to avoid boring impasses. What the heck, eighth-graders? It’s like you’re not even trying. You’re certainly not trying like these kids. Holy shit,... Read more »
A woman nearly lost her child in Jinhua, Zhejiang province recently when she recklessly drove her scooter carrying two young children between two cars at a stoplight. As she braked, the scooter lurched and a child fell out, and at the same time the car next to them pulled forward as the light had turned green. The young child's head bumped against the back wheel of the car. The above video gives you a frightening idea of how close the child came to getting her head run over.
A couple of days ago, we linked to a Buzzfeed collection of funny pictures of brand-name knock-offs and noted that a lot of the images came from China. Well, yesterday the website China Whisper decided, Why not devote an entire post to Chinese brand-name knock-offs? Some of the more notable images appear after the jump,... Read more »
Image via Xinhua If we’ve said it once, we shouldn’t need to again: don’t tailgate road tankers carrying highly combustible elements. Between 2 and 3 am earlier today in Yan’an, Shaanxi province, all but three people aboard a 39-seat double-decker coach bus perished when the bus collided with the back of a tanker carrying methanol.... Read more »
