A shortie but goodie from Global Times: "Actor Jackie Chan announced he will donate at least four old buildings to the 'Jackie Chan World Park,' to be located in Yizhuang district, the Beijing Times reported." Read more »
We're not sure why there's a naked foreigner -- a student, says People's Daily -- in the middle of a road in Haikou, Hainan province, but here he is, all sunglasses and sandals (Crocs?), minding his business. Read more »
Sometimes it's not enough to scale, sans safety equipment, a 268-meter building that happens to be the highest in the Hunan capital of Changsha. You have to finish with a flourish. Read more »
A book called Those Who Don't Read It Upside-down Are Pigs, among others, has been seized for "spreading pornography," according to Xinhua, as edited by Global Times. And two publishers, China Pictorial Publishing House and Shaanxi Normal University Publishing House, have been suspended for three months. Read more »
Our writer thought he had a simple part-time teaching gig at a Chinese army hospital. Little did he know, he'd find himself in a life-and-death battle for honor and glory -- and "America." Read more »
If the Exit-Entry Administration General Corps of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau were to team up with China Daily to create a contest, this is exactly how it would be introduced: Read more »
Lots of neat-o stuff going on this weekend and this one might have slipped under your radar. You should go if you want.
Local DJ/producer Dead J is doing a new night this Friday night at Dada called DARK, which is, as the name implies, mandated towards darker elements of the electronic music spectrum. Expect harsher techno, industrial, atmospheric stuff, breakcore, suicide music, arty bullshit, noisy and dour blips, bleeps, and bloops. In a dance club setting. Read more »
It's Friday! There's an Ultimate Frisbee tournament in Beijing this weekend; head over to Sanlitun on Saturday night to join the party. Links time. Read more »
