At around 5 pm today, a mentally deranged man from Yishui, Shandong province fatally stabbed two people outside Chaoyang Joy City shopping mall in Beijing. He is currently in custody.
Among the dead is a foreigner. No other details are currently known. Read more »
Li Tianyi, accused of participating in a gang rape, has a new lawyer -- one that lashed out at media recently -- and now has a new defense: the girl worked at a bar, so, you know... you know. You get my drift, don't you? Oh, you don't?
Let's let Yi Yanyou, law professor and director of Tsinghua Evidence Act Center at Tsinghua University, explicate. Read more »
Alibaba founder and chairman Jack Ma (Yun) was interviewed by South China Morning Post last week, and in an article published Saturday, dropped this nugget of a quote:
"I made cruel decisions when thousands of Alibaba’s customers were involved in fraud, and when we adjusted Alipay’s structure. As the CEO of a company, you have to do that. It’s like Deng Xiaoping, the then top leader, had to make cruel decisions during the June 4 crackdown for the country’s stability." Read more »
At least 17 migrant workers managed to squeeze onto the back of a single truck in Qingyuan, Guangdong province, as noticed by Car News China. Or is it 18? Are there some hidden behind that row of people against the railing? Maybe 19. Do we have 20? Read more »
More information is emerging in the Chinese authorities' case against British pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). To bring you up to speed: the New York Times reported Monday that "high-ranking executives at the company’s China operations used travel agencies as money-laundering shops to funnel bribes to doctors, hospitals, medical associations, foundations and government officials." So much money was being funneled that local travel agencies "would compete for the chance to take part." Four GSK executives -- all Chinese nationals -- were detained. Read more »
The above sign appeared in front of a court in Manzhouli, Inner Mongolia recently. As interpreted (and translated) by Ministry of Tofu, it's a not-so-subtle warning to the citizens of the city to behave, or else your anus will look like a puckered, withered flower. Read more »
Offbeat China has translated, in full, a Chinese adaptation of a popular fairy tale found in a children's book. The story is amazing, complete with amazing illustrations, and generally reads like an amazing version of a Brother Grimm tale, only funnier. Here's an excerpt: Read more »
Occasionally in showbusiness or sports, the odds against a performer's success are so stacked that the audience chooses, out of the goodness of human compassion, to root against probability. It's why we pull for Celtic FC when they face Barcelona, or Susan Boyle. I hadn't planned to cheer for the pageant contestants of Miss World China on Sunday at Galaxy SOHO -- hadn't not planned to cheer, as planning these things one way or another would be odd -- but a realization dawned upon me sometime between the rain and the fake applause piped in through the sound system: these girls are all underdogs in their own spotlight. They deserve better. Read more »
