A tidal bore, in which "the leading edge of an incoming tide forms a wave (or waves) of water that travels up a river or narrow bay against the direction of the river or bay's current," as defined by Wikipedia, caused hundreds to gather at the bank of Qiantang River Haining, Zhejiang Province yesterday.
This is what we were afraid of with the anti-rumor campaign: thin-skinned officials out in the middle of nowhere -- specifically, places where it's difficult for watchdog organizations or institutions (media? ha!) or individuals to keep authorities accountable -- cracking down on one's freedom to express anger, frustration, or any host of other very human emotions that this country would prefer stay bottled up in the repressed chambers of our being.
SCMP has video of a wicked traffic accident in Hong Kong's Central on Wednesday, reportedly on Garden Road. A blue truck carrying construction waste, for whatever reason, races around a bend, cutting off one car and ramming another before face-planting into a barricade and coming to a stop. Eight cars were damaged, including two Mercedes-Benzes.
Behind Chen Zhifeng’s hotel and gallery in Northern Ürümchi are giant Jurassic Park-style gates often guarded by a huge hound (which I'm told is Chen’s personal pet). Inside the gates is something Chen refers to as an “Ancient Ecology” park: a collection of rare Xinjiang artifacts. There is a forest of petrified wood, a collection of meteorites, sand-polished boulders, mysterious stone balls, and a collection of ancient Turk ancestor stelae known as balbals. It is here, among propped-up 3,000-year-old desert poplars (the iconic symbol of Xinjiang), that Chen meets visiting heads of state and domestic dignitaries for business negotiations and history lessons in Xinjiang style.
Last month, we came across a video of a small child waiting with his father at an intersection. Just as a car was speeding down the road, the father wanted to pull the child across the street, but the kid had the good sense to hold him back. Jaywalking can be dangerous, after all, especially when you don't look on both sides of the road.
A 15-centimeter thick, 3-meter wide mooncake weighing 1,200 jin (600 kg, or 1,323 lbs) was unveiled at Eurasia Supermarket in Changchun, Jilin province yesterday, according to China Navis. The pictures that follow are via Sina Weibo.
Track athletes met in the field of the real world on September 15. The stakes: freedom.
As brought to us by China Navis via Caijing, here's a modern telling of the classic story of the tortoise versus the hare.
