How quickly fortunes change. On Tuesday in Urumqi, a blast of lightning struck and killed 173 sheep, inflicting up to 200,000 yuan of economic loss for the owners. (Technically, 143 died instantly, 30 more were swept away by rains.) This story comes on the heels of another sorry tale of lightning mishap: on July 6,... Read more »
Two months ago, there was a post in this space called Chinese People With Unfortunate Anus Problems: A Compendium, wherein I linked to a story about a chef who died after his pals punked him by shoving a live eel up his anus. (“Medics said the eel had devoured his bowels.”) “Bad prank, or worst prank... Read more »
Tigers aren’t so wonderful things sometimes. (Go ahead and skip this story if you’re an animal lover.) On Monday morning at Xixiakou Wild Animal Preserve in Weihai, Shandong province, visitors to the tiger preserve were horrified to find three year-old bengals playing “aggressively” (zoo’s word) with a seven-month-old white tiger. When the above picture first surfaced... Read more »
The National Basketball League (NBL) is a semi-pro basketball league managed by the same suits who control the top-tier Chinese Basketball Association (CBA). The NBL's playoffs are currently happening, but they're not happening very well. As Jon Pastuszek of NiuBBall reports, "I invite you to keep an eye on the NBL playoffs, where not one, but two all-out brawls went down inside of three days last Friday and Sunday."
Feng Jianmei, who was forcibly aborted last month, and her husband Deng Jiyuan, who went missing for a while but has since resurfaced, have signed a settlement with their local government, reports Xinhua: The family of a young Chinese woman forced to have a late-term abortion has agreed to settle the case out of court after... Read more »
Via China Whisper: “July 11, Wuhan maximum temperature was over 35 degrees, Giant Panda ‘Weiwei’ was laying on the ice blocks to get rid of heat.” Smart panda. Update, 1:40 pm:
Last week in Jinhua, Zhejiang province, cameras perched on either side of Shuanglong (Double Dragon) Bridge caught an interesting sight: guardrails falling. Actually, that in itself is probably unremarkable, but what if we added sound effects? (Credit to an unnamed production manager [I'm guessing] of a news station somewhere. Though he forgot to move his... Read more »
I have nothing to add to this Xinhua news flash, as Weibo is quiet at the moment: A foreign man is dead after being stabbed in downtown Beijing on Wednesday afternoon, local police said. The foreigner, whose nationality remains unknown, was stabbed by an unidentified assailant at 3:20 p.m. at the entrance to Qudeng Alley... Read more »
