Would you believe me if I told you he only suffered minor injuries? It's what the newscaster in the video tells us, anyway. This happened in Guangxi province recently and was uploaded onto Youku yesterday. Read more »
UPDATE, 6/10, 7:57 am: A short video of the aftermath has surfaced, embedded at the bottom. UPDATE, 6/12, 12:45 pm: See here. This goes a little beyond your everyday fender bender. At 1:55 pm today at Changhong Bridge on East Third Ring Road, not far from the popular bar district Sanlitun, a Shouqi bus rear-ended... Read more »Read more »
Eric Fish of Sinostand basically said all I wanted to in his post earlier today, “Foxconn: A Very Quiet Riot“: Over the past day or so several foreign media outlets including Huffington Post, Business Insider and Bloomberg TV have been reporting that dozens of workers at a Foxconn factory in Chengdu were arrested after clashing with security at a dormitory.... Read more »Read more »
By RFH The 100 Days campaign has been providing many freelancers the opportunity to convince editors back home that there’s some kind of slash ’n’ burn bender going on. A lot of these articles have been boilerplate mush, oozing from the chin of the great China news aggregator, but one particular piece about alleged racism at a newspaper, posted on... Read more »Read more »
This past Monday was National Hug Your Cat Day. If you didn’t know that, you’re already less of a cat lover than this dog here, a five-year-old in Shandong who was recently found nursing three tiny creatures. Her owners initially thought they were puppies, but upon closer inspection, they discovered that the infants were actually... Read more »Read more »
The Sun’s story in full: THIS little panda dreams of exploring the Wild West when he grows up — as he plays on a rocking horse. At the moment he is in the East — in what looks like a children’s playground but is actually a star attraction enclosure at Beijing Zoo in China, below.... Read more »Read more »
It was only last year that I stopped having one particular recurring nightmare: I would be back in high school or college, and it would be the day before a big exam, and it would dawn on me that I had never attended any classes; or I would totally forget that I had even signed... Read more »Read more »
Lawyer Teng Biao dedicated this scroll to Li (posted on China Digital Times): “An inch of blood for an inch of freedom, thousands of miles of rivers bring thousands of miles of woes.” Li Wangwang was found dead of hanging on Wednesday in a hospital room in Shaoyang, Hunan province. There are conflicting opinions about... Read more »Read more »
Thanks, China Daily. Thanks for embedding a reporter deep inside the septic tank that is the Sanlitun Police Bureau and telling us it’s a lustrous fishbowl with that most exotic of exotic creatures, the officer who cares. This piece, in which reporter Cao Yin is allowed to tail “stocky” 44-year-old Zhang Tao, presumably to see... Read more »Read more »
