A girl was electrocuted on Monday at a KTV parlor in Harbin, Heilongjiang province, according to Dongbei Net.
Li Lingyu, 21, was performing karaoke with friends when eyewitnesses say she suddenly collapsed onto the sofa, dropping her mic. Three classmates who reached out to touch her all felt electric shocks. Another mic-holding classmate was shocked half-numb, and temporarily paralyzed.
The feel-good show Voice of China, which admittedly can be over-the-top and schmaltzy, has produced another made-for-TV moment. The most buzzed-about performance from last week is by Zhang Xin from Chongqing. Check out his rendition of Alicia Keys's Fallin', followed by the judges' reactions when they find out that the singer hitting those high notes is a 26-year-old man.
Torrential rains have caused floods and landslides across northern China, resulting in 50 deaths this month in Shaanxi province alone. (And in Sichuan, this death.)
But you know which four people the landslides in Shaanxi have not yet killed?
For the second straight year and the third time overall since 2010, the Hong Kong-based China Institute of City Competitiveness (CICC) has ranked Qingdao, Shandong province No. 1 on its China Urban Competitiveness Ranking, essentially calling it the happiest city in China.
Tianjin's been called the armpit of Beijing, but every once in a while we're reminded that the city has beaches, a few nice German-made buildings, and, um, I guess supermodels.
Pole dancing is sort of big here, on subways and in an official capacity, so it's with apologies that we report, belatedly, that the 3rd China Pole Dance Championships came and went earlier this month without us noticing. Luckily, World of Chinese has our back:
