Petar Kujundzic - Pedja has just posted the only video we've seen that shows the anteroom of the main auditorium inside the Great Hall of the People. As chief photographer of Thomson Reuters, he and his team captured several other images as well, providing unique looks at an event -- the 18th National Congress -- most often described as boring.
UDPATE, 11/26, 2:20 am: Lei was set up. The video was taken by 18-year-old Zhao Hongxia, the unfortunate lady in this sex tape, in February 2007 . She was hired by the boss of a construction company whose bribes to Lei failed to win him a coveted contract. Here’s more info, including pictures of Zhao... Read more »
The owner of a house near a railway station in Taizhou, Wenlin, Zhejiang province is refusing to vacate his home because it’s his and fuck roads. Luo Baogen, 67, and his 65-year-old wife rejected an offer of 260,000 yuan plus two small building sites, claiming it wasn’t enough compensation. The story has spread on Sina... Read more »
South China Morning Post reports that Li Yuanlong, who first wrote about the five Bijie children in Guizhou province who were found dead in a dumpster on Friday, has been sent on “a vacation,” and it’s clear that it’s not the voluntary kind. Li Muzi, the son of Li Yuanlong, said his father had been... Read more »
The above picture was taken in 2002, when Xi Jinping was the Zhejiang Party Secretary. Look at how strapping, happy, and young he is. Does he know, in that freeze frame, that he would one day ascend to the highest political seat in the People’s Republic of China? These were your halcyon days, Mr. President,... Read more »
It doesn't really matter how you celebrate this day, of course, whether dozing in front of the TV as the Macy's parade goes by, or ruing the day you drafted Calvin Johnson in the first round; getting drunk before dislocating your shoulder playing tackle football, or lining your belly with a rind of fat and saying, Ah, fuck it; baking a pumpkin pie as you prepare to head over to Great Leap Brewing, or shopping for a white chocolate Kit Kat bar, because don't you deserve it?
Sources are saying that scattered protests involving “more than 1,000 villagers” (SCMP, via Hong Kong-based Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy) in Wenzhou, Zheijang province have resulted in either “hundreds” (SCMP), “200” (Want China Times) or “more than 10” injuries (Radio Free Asia). It began in Longgang township on Tuesday, where villagers were unhappy about... Read more »
In this day and age, someone somewhere had the brilliant idea that it’d be perfectly fine to install peepholes in a student dormitory as a form of surveillance. That somewhere is a middle school in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province. As Shanghai Daily tells us: About 470 students live in the dormitory building of Longwan Experimental Junior... Read more »
Hangzhou’s Subway Line 1 opened on Sunday with a four-day “free subway” campaign. That was a bad idea, it turns out. On the third day, Tuesday, passenger volume reached nearly 70,000 by 5 pm, reports People’s Daily, which ran the above photo (a kid relieving himself in the subway… again) in a story headlined “Uncivilized... Read more »
