A 700-year-old tree in Shifang, Sichuan province withstood the efforts of a crane trying to secretly knock it down. Check it out. That's what happens when an immovable object is actually immovable: 30 meters tall, 2.4 meters in diameter, apparently.
If you haven't been following the story of Bloomberg vs. the New York Times, start here. That's NYT's article, built around an anonymous source within Bloomberg, claiming that Bloomberg editor-in-chief Matthew Winkler spiked a sensitive China story due to pressure.
Overheard in the international departures line at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila: "What do you suppose 'wang-wang' means?"
"Don't do what the Chinese do in lines."
Via Hug China:
A middle aged woman stripped herself nude and tore at male cop's trousers when fined for riding her scooter in the wrong direction in Shanghai.
Here it is! What, you weren't also waiting for images and videos from this year's Guangzhou Sex and Culture Festival, which began Friday and ended Sunday?
One of O. Henry's most famous stories is "The Last Leaf," a tale of hope, perseverance, and sacrifice. In it, a young girl dying in a New York hospital believes that once the last leaf falls from a vine outside her window, it'll be time for her to go. "Oh, I never heard of such nonsense," her friend, Sue, tells her, but she believes it, and so, lying in bed, she counts down the leaves. Five. Four. Three. Two...
