At least two are dead after an accident at a subway construction site in Xi'an, Shaanxi province this morning. At around 2:40 am, a tunnel caved in as nine workers were in the midst of building Line 3. Four have been rescued, but of the five that were buried, two have been found dead while the other three are still missing. (Note: the title of the above video claims three died on the scene.) ...

A cheeky someone over at JeopardyLabs, where quiz fans can create their own Jeopardy! game (not to be confused with J-Archive, which has every Jeopardy! question ever), has created a game for China watchers who love talking about pollution. It's mostly lame, with several true/false and fill-in-the-blank questions that don't require the answer in the form of a question, but that such a quiz exists is the poi ...

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BJC contributor Chris Clayman attended the Dali Erhai World Music Festival in Yunnan province from April 29 - May 1. His dispatch follows. A Cop with a Weird Haircut We're standing near the fortune teller when Lin Dan shows us something. “I’m a cop,” he says. He pulls out his wallet and holds it close to his waist, his left hand shading a badge. Then he looks around to make sure one of the five hundred poli ...

May just feels... different, doesn't it? Let the good times overcome. ...

Hello Beijing Cream readers. My name is Josh and I work at this other website called Smart Beijing, where I write tl;dr music articles on a weekly basis. The Tao is outsourcing these Friday Musical Outros to my comrade Morgan, but he's busy preparing for his simultaneous DJ sets at Dada and Temple tomorrow night, so he passed the buck to me. Today's video is kind of a cheat. A teaser, you might say. Tomorro ...

"Poorly parked BMW in Beijing spray-painted with insults," via SCMP So many good stories, so little time. Luckily, this links post. Hopefully we'll see some of you at the That's Beijing party happening now at the Hilton. ...

Xinhua News Agency reports that 904 people were arrested on Thursday as part of a nationwide crackdown on spoiled and fake food. How fake are we talking about? Deep breath time. "In Wuxi, in east China's Jiangsu Province, suspects made fake mutton from fox, mink and rat by adding chemicals," the news agency reported. ...

I don't really have anything to add to Hong Wrong's piece about the 16.5-meter duck in Victoria Harbor, "In Pictures: HK Goes Completely Insane For Big Yellow Duck’s Arrival," or Shanghaiist's guide to SCMP's articles about these rubber ducks (with rolling updates), except to say this is awesome: ...

Big oops, as spotted by Car News China in Shanghai. A Ferrari FF drove into the back on a truck on a bicycle lane. Furthermore; the Ferrari was driven by a laowai (foreigner) with a laowai-chick on the passenger’s seat. It's not as expensive an accident as a Lamborghini running into a Rolls Royce, but nonetheless... OOPS. ...

China is mixing deadly H5N1 bird flu viruses with H1N1 swine flu viruses. You heard that right. The virus can already be passed between guinea pigs, which are used in these experiments as some sort of guinea pigs. They are making pigs and birds science-bone each other until they come up with some sort of superbug. A dangerous superbug that could potentially wipe out millions of lives, and the scientific com ...

Surely at some point we've all encountered street racers or speeding motorcyclists in China, usually young people with too much money and too much time. And how many of us have been able to suppress the thought, I really hope they get into trouble. Death? No, not that. But trouble -- a hefty fine, a 12-point driver's license deduction, a single-vehicle wreck... Usually, though, these people don't need our m ...

Chinese product placements, superfluous scenes with Fan Bingbing, inflated ticket prices... what did all of that get Iron Man 3's much anticipated debut in China this week? Only every record in the books. "Disney is confirming that Iron Man 3 broke every opening day record in China's box office," according to BoxOffice.com. "The official figure is currently $18,657,142 but it is expected rise to $21.5 milli ...

Brittney Griner, who recently closed out one of the most dominant college careers in women's basketball history, is coming to China. NiuBBall reports: Apparently not satisfied enough with their previous 6’8 dunking female center, the Zhejiang Chouzhou Golden Bulls have taken things up a notch, signing not only the world’s greatest women’s dunker, but possibly its most dominant as well. ...

Many fans of Chinese rock music have heard of the band Rustic, the members of which became stars on the scene only a few years ago when they unexpectedly won the Global Battle of the Bands competition in London. They play a catchy blend of cock rock and old-school punk, and their show antics make them one of the must-see acts in Beijing, even if it's just to see them act like wankers. Surely a lot has been ...

Unemployed Donald Mahoney, 28 or so, went to the Shanghai marriage market to get a spouse, which he needed "yesterday." You are sexually irresistable, he was told, but that -- along with his ability to do pushups -- was not enough to attract the attention of those with eligible daughters. A different ploy was needed... ...

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. ...