There’s big, and then there’s China big. (Sorry, Texas – you’re not in the ballpark.) In Chengdu, construction has begun on a multiplex featuring hotels, apartments, offices, an IMAX cinema, skating rink, pirate ship, “Mediterranean village,” artificial beach, undulating roof…
You might have heard that 50,000 cigarettes are consumed in China every second. Choose to believe it or don’t, but a ton of people smoke here, to the tune of 28 percent of the population — more than 300 million people. According to World Health Organization, “One of every three cigarettes consumed worldwide is smoked... Read more »
I don’t really have much to say about this story except that there’s a typo in the headline: Excerpt: The immediate effects of breast enhancement surgeries has lured many women to go under the knife. However, the steep cost, potential side effects and unnatural-looking results have led other women to seek natural and inexpensive alternatives.
Hackers probably got into a Wenzhou, Zhejiang school’s text-sending platform and fired off a very inappropriate message to 600 parents yesterday. Then again, the message probably contained only the hard truth. I mean, have you seen children? Via SCMP: More than 600 parents in China’s eastern Zhejiang province were shocked and furious after receiving a text... Read more »
TAR Nation is on vacation (don’t worry, not the forced kind), so leave it to the rest of us to call buncombe on Global Times. Its latest un-bylined editorial is about the Internet:
Art has never been the same at 798 Art Zone since the tourists were asked to come. I know it’s a cliched, “hipster” thing to say, but it’s impossible for any neighborhood to remain the same when daily foot traffic numbers in the thousands and publicists and PR specialists are behind the counter at all... Read more »
Details are sparse, but around 7:45 am today, according to Xinhua, a student surnamed Hu killed a classmate, surnamed Tan, on the sixth-floor library of Anhui Medical University. Another article speculates that the incident was instigated by either a dispute over a seat or an “emotional dispute.” According to one eyewitness, Hu and Tan had chatted... Read more »
Despite the iPhone 5′s seemingly chilly reception at its December 14 launch — it was a non-event at the Beijing Apple Store, where fights occurred at the last product unveiling — sales have nonetheless been brisk. Over 2 million units were sold in three days, according to Apple’s press release. “Customer response to iPhone 5... Read more »
How much do you care about Wang Lijun? Enough to read a 40-page Chinese story about him in Southern Metropolis Weekly? Short of that, check out South China Morning Post’s summary of the story. Short of that, here are some excerpts. Wang paid great attention to his public image. He employed a personal PR team of... Read more »
