After I wrote about the the Henan AIDS epidemic still haunting this country, Sonja Jo tweeted at us the above video by activist Hu Jia, uploaded yesterday. It shows Henan petitioners gathered around the Ministry of Civil Affairs office in Wangfujing on Thursday, some wearing red ribbons on their coats or lapels. The video description says the petitioners were there for three days, tailed by Beijing police the whole time. Officials did not come out to address their concerns. Read more »
Last September, a public servant in Luoyang, Henan province was discovered to have kept six women, aged 16 to 24, as sex slaves in an underground dungeon for two to 21 months. In addition to raping them, making them act in porn, and prostituting them, he forced three of the women to murder two of... Read more »Read more »
Maybe China isn't so upset at Elton John after all. Here is the man talking to China Central Television anchor James Chau for CCTV News (English edition). Via CCTV: Read more »
The first China Beijing International Magic Carnival kicked off yesterday, which no one attended because it was in Changping District. Listen, event organizers: be a little less transparent with these “international” festivals, would you? The CBIMC (a non-official and heretofore nonexistent acronym) is nothing but a local soft-power push, the equivalent of a small-auto windshield makers trade fair in Jefferson City,... Read more »Read more »
In China, the prevalence of HIV/AIDs is a mere 0.1 percent, yet almost every article on the subject will mention “pockets of high infection” among subsets. What they’re talking about is Henan province, where tens, maybe hundreds of thousands (some say up to a million) of people, mostly peasants, were infected in the 1990s through... Read more »Read more »
Show’s over, folks. The “Most Awesome Nail House” in Wenlin, Zhejiang province — a three-story residence standing in the middle of a highway near a railway station — has been demolished after the owner, 67-year-old Luo Baogen, signed an agreement with property developers. “Well, I am willing to relocate,” Luo said. The terms of the relocation agreement haven’t... Read more »Read more »
Huge, rolling flames. Xinhua reports that the fire began just after 7 pm around Xihongmen subway station in Daxing District. The thick smoke rose more than 10 meters. Firefighters were able to control it relatively quickly. About 300 square meters of property were damaged, but there were no casualties. The cause of the incident is still under investigation. Read more »
Chen Kegui, nephew of blind lawyer Chen Guangcheng, was sentenced to 39 months in jail for his role in fighting back hired thugs and local officials who had broken into his home on April 27. The man slashed three officials — out of a group of about 20 of the most spineless, chicken-livered, piss-poor excuses... Read more »Read more »
Dudes wearing creepy, creepy masks pulled down their pants, held orange-red plastic pails over their privates, and masturbated while scantily-clad female models did sexually suggestive things, including with dildos and blow-up dolls. And it wasn’t for a porno — a terrible, terrible porno that no one would watch. Who wants to explain? “On the afternoon... Read more »Read more »
