Earlier today, a man in Chongqing shot dead one person and injured two others in an attempted robbery outside a Bank of China. Police are still looking for the man, but they’ve identified him as a repeat felony offender who’s somehow still at large. According to Sina: Police have launched a manhunt for the suspect and offer 500,000... Read more »
Donald C. Clarke, professor of law at George Washington University, recently translated an account of the Gu Kailai trial and posted it on his website, Chinese Law Prof Blog. The account was written in Chinese by Zhao Xiangcha, titled, “A Record of my Observation of the Murder Trial of BoGu Kailai and Zhang Xiaojun.” Zhao notes... Read more »
A gunman in Chongqing opened fire in front of Bank of China at 9:37 this morning, leaving one dead and two injured. China News Service reports that it was an armed robbery at Shapingba District, on the intersection between Fengmingshan and Kangjuyuan. The picture above, via ifeng, was taken moments after the gunman fled; the man... Read more »
Changsha Central Hospital recently extracted a spider that had been living for five days inside a woman’s ear canal. Look at the eyes on that thing! Reports Huffington Post: After much discussion it was decided to fill the woman’s ear with saline, in the hope the spider would come out of its own accord, the... Read more »
The last time we saw Jason Chu around these parts, he was rapping about his imminent departure from China with the song Love Letter to Beijing.
It's nice to see he's making himself visible in the US as well. Here is his message to the victims of the Wisconsin Sikh Temple shootings, along with some pointed remarks at the Chick-fil-A set.
This is a tale about two families who shared an apartment in Yantai, Shandong province. They’re both called Li, so that complicates things slightly, but I’ll try my best. The story is via Qilu (Shandong) Evening News. On Wednesday morning, Li and her sister were moving some stuff downstairs when they were intercepted by the apartment’s... Read more »
Sometimes the days pass too fast, can you feel it? Here’s Episode 2 of Beijing Slice, with music from The Wind Whistles (“Spooks”). Previously: Swimming In Qian Hai. |Beijing Slice Archives|
If you were counting, the “trial” lasted all of a few hours, ending just now with Gu Kailai not contesting the charge that she murdered British businessman Neil Heywood. So much for transparency of law. Did we learn anything from this process? Gu was never going to win their game, so she didn’t play. A date... Read more »
