It was only last Sunday that a kid in Guangdong province wandered onto his balcony and fell through a crack, and might have plummeted to serious injury if not for a Good Samaritan who climbed out of his window to help. Two days ago, the exact same thing appears to have happened in Guangxi province.... Read more »
Would you believe me if I told you he only suffered minor injuries? It's what the newscaster in the video tells us, anyway. This happened in Guangxi province recently and was uploaded onto Youku yesterday.
Eric Fish of Sinostand basically said all I wanted to in his post earlier today, “Foxconn: A Very Quiet Riot“: Over the past day or so several foreign media outlets including Huffington Post, Business Insider and Bloomberg TV have been reporting that dozens of workers at a Foxconn factory in Chengdu were arrested after clashing with security at a dormitory.... Read more »
By RFH The 100 Days campaign has been providing many freelancers the opportunity to convince editors back home that there’s some kind of slash ’n’ burn bender going on. A lot of these articles have been boilerplate mush, oozing from the chin of the great China news aggregator, but one particular piece about alleged racism at a newspaper, posted on... Read more »
This past Monday was National Hug Your Cat Day. If you didn’t know that, you’re already less of a cat lover than this dog here, a five-year-old in Shandong who was recently found nursing three tiny creatures. Her owners initially thought they were puppies, but upon closer inspection, they discovered that the infants were actually... Read more »
The Sun’s story in full: THIS little panda dreams of exploring the Wild West when he grows up — as he plays on a rocking horse. At the moment he is in the East — in what looks like a children’s playground but is actually a star attraction enclosure at Beijing Zoo in China, below.... Read more »
It was only last year that I stopped having one particular recurring nightmare: I would be back in high school or college, and it would be the day before a big exam, and it would dawn on me that I had never attended any classes; or I would totally forget that I had even signed... Read more »
Lawyer Teng Biao dedicated this scroll to Li (posted on China Digital Times): “An inch of blood for an inch of freedom, thousands of miles of rivers bring thousands of miles of woes.” Li Wangwang was found dead of hanging on Wednesday in a hospital room in Shaoyang, Hunan province. There are conflicting opinions about... Read more »
Last Thursday, Italian designer Giorgio Armani held a show at 798 Art District in Beijing that was attended by 1,000 guests and stars such as Tina Turner, Mary J. Blige, Michelle Yeoh, and Fan Bingbing. Judging by those guests, the show must have been special — something about a decade-plus of Armani products in China.... Read more »
