Via YouTube description on Channel 4 News: Jonathan Sparks filmed in Shandong, China where he was whisked away by officers who wanted to tell him a story about corruption. In an extraordinary tale, the police told Channel 4 how they’d been cheated out of millions by their chief. 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. Read more »
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 »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: Read more »
Surveys and polls are notoriously unreliable in this country, which you might have heard is really intersecting/overlapping parts of four different and very disparate countries — urban China, rural China, rich China, and poor China. Sometimes what’s more interesting than poll results is poll methodology, and to that end, we’d like to find out which... Read more »Read more »
“The expat love story gets a film treatment in Lao Wai, a film about East-meets-West love,” writes Global Times. That’s not supposed to be an endorsement. Lao Wai tells the story of a French IT engineer in Shanghai who falls in love with a local girl, Mei, and together they test “the limits of love in... Read more »Read more »
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 »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 »Read more »
