Showcasing the best in Asian-related memes. Sources: We Know Memes, Wuluwu. ...

Two young children were the victims of a dispute between the adults of rival kindergartens last week, according to Xinhua. Let that punch in the gut settle in. Xinhua reports that the principal of an unnamed kindergarten in Pingshan, Hebei province intentionally laced yogurt with tetramine, then hired someone to have it sold along a route that children took on their way to a competiting kindergarten. The po ...

Bo Jiang, the suspected Chinese spy who was pulled off a plane on March 16 just as it was preparing to fly him out of the country, downloaded more than just classified NASA documents and sensitive information, as revealed by Bloomberg. Actually, let's back up a bit. Did he actually possess classified NASA documents and state secrets? In late March, US Magistrate Judge Lawrence Leonard released Jiang from cu ...

The Internet's closet of amusing gallimaufry has yielded this video, which shows a young man vigorously dancing Gangnam Style on a Beijing subway train on the surburban Fangshan Line. This was taken on Tuesday around 6 pm, according to the Youku description. ...

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Thai ladyboys parade in Dongguan, via Reddit It's the holiday, so you're probably not reading these links. Carry on. ...

In an otherwise pretty decent ad for the Chevy Trax, GM has been forced to go on the defensive for using a song that includes the phrase "ching-chong, chop suey." As South China Morning Post notes: The television spot for the Chevrolet Trax SUV, which had been running in Canada since early April and was posted to Chevrolet’s European website, disappeared from Canadian TV screens about a week ago, and was re ...

What if we told you the last one to stop touching the car gets to keep it? How long could/would you touch it, then? Yesterday in Shanghai, some 60 people began competing to win a new Volkswagen Polo by keeping their hands pressed to it. According to China Daily, contestants were allowed one 15-minute bathroom break every six hours, and the last person to remove his/her hand is the grand prize winner. To the ...

Chengguan are not technically police officers, but out in the streets, their word is law. Today, we got a sobering reminder of that in Beijing. As reported by That's Beijing, "around 30 to 50 chengguan, along with 20 xieguan officers (‘associate management,’ a force subordinate to chengguan – essentially, hired muscle) blocked off Xuezuo Hutong behind Zhangzizhonglu subway station, allowing the crews to dis ...

Authorities still don't get it. It's over. Chen Guangcheng is gone. He's in the hands of overseas activists now, and hasn't said a thing that was new or interesting since winning the Lantos Human Rights Prize in late January. In other words, stop doing THIS SHIT: Security personnel in eastern China are carrying out a nightly harassment campaign against the brother of blind rights activist Chen Guangcheng, t ...

A 63-year-old American who was convicted twice of child porn offenses was reportedly working at a Nanjing school until between 2007 and earlier this year, reports the Chinese newspaper Modern Express. He apparently left the country two months ago. In light of this case and the one of Neil Robinson, who was detained in Beijing last week, the State Administration of Foreign Experts issued an "urgent notice," ...

A bombshell in the CBA: Boss Wang Xingquan of the Shanxi Zhongyu Brave Dragons has sold his team to Beijing Enterprises Group Co. Ltd., for 1.2 billion 120 million yuan (US $194.5 $19.5 million), according to Sina via NiuBBall. The Beijing-based investment group will be moving the team up north, to the nation's capital, where Marcus Williams and Charles Gaines's crew will surely begin a cross-town rivalry w ...

The closing ceremony for the third annual Beijing International Film Festival was held last Tuesday at the China National Convention Center, a multiplex which is the size and roughly the shape of an intergalactic ship docked on a bay of concrete just north of the National Aquatics Center on the Olympic Green. The event aims to be “international, professional, innovative, high-end and market-oriented," accor ...

Images of Sichuan earthquake, via The Big Picture (Boston.com) Happy May Day holiday links. ...

A 67-year-old man surnamed He who went in for a doctor's visit earlier this year got a bit more than he asked for, according to an article published on Saturday on People's Daily via China Business News. On February 8, He went to a hospital in Shangluo, Shanxi province complaining of swelling and discomfort around his genitals. In subsequent visits, doctors diagnosed him with penile cancer and rushed him -- ...

A recently uploaded video by Youku user 比利时巧克力2, titled "Beijing dance instructor causes worldwide stir, physically and verbally assaults students," has been viewed 1.4 million times in the past three days. Chinese-version China Daily got in touch with the Youku user, who said the video comes from an (unidentified) international video-sharing site and was uploaded last November. ...

Django Unchained is ready for mainland Chinese theaters again. According to Sina, Quentin Tarantion's revenge epic will be screened beginning May 7, with "full-frontal nudity removed." There was hardly any full-frontal nudity in the movie to begin with, but if that's what it takes, so be it. By now everyone who wants to see it probably has online or via pirated DVDs, but whatever. Censors work in mysterious ...

The first Chinese official to lose his job as a result of the Ya'an Earthquake is Yang Chengyi, 47, of Qingyuan township. Did he embezzle aid? Wear a gold watch? Smile while inspecting an accident site when he should have frowned? If only. According to SCMP, Yang was fired after failing to meet with disciplinary inspectors because he was busy working in the field. ...

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Welcome to Three Shots with Beijing Cream, where local personalities spill their beans 1.5 fluid ounces at a time. Produced and directed by Gabriel Clermont and Anthony Tao. Our guests this week aren't local per se, but Beijing honararies by virtue of their attendance at last month's Bookworm International Literary Festival. Writers from around the world converged on the Bookworm from March 8 to 22, but two ...