In Shenzhen on Tuesday, a woman got into a verbal confrontation with a warden inside a subway station. The woman was wearing just a bra, no shirt. The warden was telling her she was being indecent. The "discussion" proceeded in such a way as to attract someone nearby to begin filming. This is what happened on tape:
If you haven’t heard of Hanggai, you must not live in Beijing. One of the city’s — and country’s — most popular bands, it specializes in Mongolian folk music but is by no means constrained by that style. Singer Ilchi, an ethnic Mongolian, has established himself as perhaps the most famous “throat singer” in the... Read more »
YouTube embed of this video after the jump. Beijing is not a city where you expect to hear about someone being shot dead, but that’s what happened last night when a man took a security guard hostage at knifepoint inside Subway Line 10′s Hujialou station. According to Beijing TV this morning, the incident began just after 9... Read more »
In Hong Kong, millions take the Peak Tram every year, making it one of Hong Kong Island's biggest tourist draws. And where there's tourists, there'll be vendors who try to capitalize. Unregistered taxi drivers, for instance.
No one would confuse China Daily for a real newspaper — the kind that doesn’t write “A Friend’s Departure” on its front page when North Korea’s leader dies — but the company undoubtedly has real journalists on staff, veteran reporters who quietly toil within China’s noxious media environment to produce respectable work, and it’s those... Read more »
Remember the boat-rowing dad with his young son? And the kid swimming in the back of a van? Continuing on that theme, here’s a toddler in an inflatable swim ring floating down a flooded road in a Wuhan park. According to China News, plenty of families have brought their children out to play in the... Read more »
Video after the jump It’s been said that there are three B’s of marketing: be relevant, be social, be real time. In China, however, there’s another B that takes precedent: be blond. In Nanjing yesterday, a weight-loss company sought to take full advantage of this fact, trotting out a blond model in tight leather pants... Read more »
OK, to the best of my understanding, here’s what happens in this video posted a day or two ago but depicting an incident from July 6 in Zhuhai, Guangdong province: The girl in pink is someone called a “jiutuo,” which translates to something like “drink prop”: one of those hired hands who lure men into... Read more »
