We all know the teenage years of a child’s life is filled with change, but not usually like this. A 16-year-old girl named Nana in Jinhua, Zhejiang province — photographed above on October 11 – has been suffering from aplastic anemia for two years, according to Xinhua, and undergoing potent drug therapy. One of the side effects,... Read more »Read more »
They’re rioting again in Sichuan province. Tea Leaf Nation reports that yesterday evening, an anti-police protest turned violent after three police officers beat a driver to death in broad daylight in front of several witnesses. (Someone at the scene began filming after the driver was killed; the video is embedded here — no matter who you... Read more »Read more »
Were you somewhere other than Hong Kong this weekend? You mean you weren’t watching the city’s first-ever soapbox derby, sponsored by Red Bull? You sad, sad fool. The blog Hong Wrong says about 30,000 people turned out, and judging by the video, it was quite the spectacle. The Telegraph notes: The teams were judged on creativity, showmanship and... Read more »Read more »
The death of a Chinese fisherman in South Korean waters in the Yellow Sea has raised "strong dissatisfaction" in Beijing. On Tuesday, a raid of two fishing ships resulted in a fisherman reportedly getting fatally wounded by a rubber bullet. According to AFP: Read more »
Remember how, during the saga of blind activist Chen Guangcheng, authorities resorted to the basest means to intimidate and punish him? You’ll surely remember Chen Kegui, Guangcheng’s nephew, who was arrested for attacking goons with a knife — goons disguised as police (or is it the other way around?) who were sent to his house... Read more »Read more »
You’ve seen the ATV Mr. Asia Pageant‘s contestants; now here’s ATV Ms. Asia, via Shanghaiist A lot of links today, so let’s get right to it. Read more »
Xinhua! What are you doing??? *Violently shakes Xinhua by the shoulders so that its head rattles like a punching bag* XINHUA? ARE YOU EVEN LISTENING??? *Slaps Xinhua across the cheek, then again with a backhand, so that three ovals of spittle, each smaller than the oval preceding it, flies out of Xinhua’s mouth, first one... Read more »Read more »
"Chinese commies are commies and China commies commies commies," Mitt Romney said at tonight's the second presidential debate.
His actual words were, "China has been a currency manipulator for years and years and years," but the real point didn't require such fancy words: China equals bad, non-China equals good. Read more »
This is your story of the day, week, and month. As posted to Sina Weibo a few days ago, Fang Meng tells this extraordinary tale that needs no further embellishment. A feature published on Qianlong Net yesterday has more details as well, from which we’ll sample. On July 8 of this year, 53-year-old Kou Minjun — who hasn’t had... Read more »Read more »
For whatever reason, Yang Rui felt it necessary to apologize to Melissa Chan yesterday, even though this apology comes about five months late, not to mention totally out of the blue. Via Shanghaiist: Yang Rui’s post at 12:09 on 16th October: I do not agree with demonizing [other journalists], in mid-May on several different occasions I... Read more »Read more »
