YouTube embed of this video after the jump. Beijing is not a city where you expect to hear about someone being shot dead, but that’s what happened last night when a man took a security guard hostage at knifepoint inside Subway Line 10′s Hujialou station. According to Beijing TV this morning, the incident began just after 9... Read more »Read more »
In Hong Kong, millions take the Peak Tram every year, making it one of Hong Kong Island's biggest tourist draws. And where there's tourists, there'll be vendors who try to capitalize. Unregistered taxi drivers, for instance. Read more »
No one would confuse China Daily for a real newspaper — the kind that doesn’t write “A Friend’s Departure” on its front page when North Korea’s leader dies — but the company undoubtedly has real journalists on staff, veteran reporters who quietly toil within China’s noxious media environment to produce respectable work, and it’s those... Read more »Read more »
As Louis CK says in one of his shows, children can be assholes (and “buckets of disease”). But is it worth screaming “kill you” at them for getting a math problem wrong?
This video’s a bit old, from two years ago, but it recently went viral and found new life on Viral Viral Videos. Forget Amy Chua; it’s Asian mothers like this who give Asian moms a bad rep. Read more »
Remember the boat-rowing dad with his young son? And the kid swimming in the back of a van? Continuing on that theme, here’s a toddler in an inflatable swim ring floating down a flooded road in a Wuhan park. According to China News, plenty of families have brought their children out to play in the... Read more »Read more »
Video after the jump It’s been said that there are three B’s of marketing: be relevant, be social, be real time. In China, however, there’s another B that takes precedent: be blond. In Nanjing yesterday, a weight-loss company sought to take full advantage of this fact, trotting out a blond model in tight leather pants... Read more »Read more »
OK, to the best of my understanding, here’s what happens in this video posted a day or two ago but depicting an incident from July 6 in Zhuhai, Guangdong province: The girl in pink is someone called a “jiutuo,” which translates to something like “drink prop”: one of those hired hands who lure men into... Read more »Read more »
CORRECTION, 11:49 am: While the instructional video and gif appeared last week on Sina Weibo and has since spread to TV shows such as Society of Transparency, the incident itself happened in 2010 in Taiwan. Pudong Highway Patrol stripped out the timestamp in the original footage, but the reportage error is mine and I regret... Read more »Read more »
