Something called the Mr. Hong Kong Nepal 2012 Bodybuilding Championship -- which somehow has been going on for 10 years -- happened recently, and was won by Bishwa Bahadur Thapa Magar (though we've also seen his name spelled "Bishow Thapa Magar"). We think this contest is for Nepalese men based in Hong Kong. We think. None of this is really the point, though. ...

Via Shanghaiist: "Screens on Beijing subway's Line 5 all began displaying '王鹏你妹' ('Wang Peng, your sister', equivalent to 'your mother' or 'fuck you' in English) this morning due to a 'system error' according to transport officials." No time to waste. Links! ...

Novak Djokovic's dominance in Beijing continued last night when he defeated Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 7-6 (4), 6-2 in the finals of the China Open, extending his record at this tournament to 14-0. (He also won the 2009 and 2010 titles.) In fact, he dropped just one set in his five matches, which means he was probably never uncomfortable on any of the courts. That is, until the award ceremony. ...

[caption id="attachment_5698" align="alignnone" width="480" caption="Bo Xilai and first-wife Li Danyu"][/caption] Raise the army banner, And laugh still more, gazing at the red cosmos, Spare no effort to move forward. Commendations to New York Times senior writer Edward Wong, Shanghai bureau chief David Barboza, and researchers Mia Li, Xu Yan and Amy Qin, who have produced the Bo Xilai story of the week, ti ...

Chinese pundit Sima Nan, known for, among other things, spewing anti-America rhetoric despite having no qualms about visiting America and getting his head stuck in a Dulles Airport escalator, was giving a lecture at Hainan University yesterday when he ran into a proverbial buzz saw  A student took the microphone, stood up, and began coolly rebuking the man on stage, who grew increasingly agitated as it beca ...

We've seen plenty of truck explosions in our time, as recently as last Wednesday. When they involve tankers of the LPG variety, bad results usually ensue. Take note: the accident in August that killed 36 in Shanxi; an oil tanker crash in June that left a city in smoke; a fiery death at the rear of a liquid petroleum truck; and so on. All told, the lesson is pretty clear: tankers explode, and explosions kill ...

This morning on Guangzhou's Subway Line 4 around Chepi South Station, a man identified as "70-some years old" and another who is "20-some years old" began fighting over a seat. To say things escalated would be an understatement. Neither man would relent, and the result was a bloodbath that sent everyone scurrying. ...

In all fairness to LeBron James, his teammates in this video -- Chris Bosh, Mario Chalmers, Rashard Lewis, Dwyane Wade, and Mike Miller -- weren't exactly Dashan. And Shane Battier didn't even try! That's the dude who's endorsed by Peak and "super famous" here, according to Miami New Times (which, in a bit of an overstatement, also says Chinese fans "worship him). The last time James was in China, he was wa ...

We brought you pictures of the 10th annual Guangzhou Sex Culture Festival yesterday evening, but by far the best picture from that event -- which, sadly, ends today -- is the one above. I want you to notice the small gray box that is partially obscuring the picture of the woman's breast on the left side of the image. Censorship fail. Let's make this a caption contest. GO. Runner-up photo: ...

What happens when you mix the characters of Super Mario with the mean streets of Hong Kong and classic elements of Triad flicks? The folks at Dayside Productions have an answer for you. From the YouTube video description: Synopsis: Bowser, the shroom drug lord, kidnaps the mayor's daughter, Peach, to call off a drug investigation. The mayor calls Mario to seek revenge and rescue Peach. And make no mistake, ...

Video after the jump. Remember the cannibal/zombie craze that swept across the world over the summer, starting with Rudy Eugene chewing a homeless man's face on a Miami highway on May 26, followed by Alexander Kinyua eating a murder victim's heart and portions of his brain, followed by Luka Magnotta (the less said about this one the better)? The trend, if you can call it that, seemed finally to end on June ...

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The Guangzhou Sex Culture Festival is always a big deal because, you know, sex. Created in 2003 by Zhang Feng, a soldier-turned government official who goes by "Brother Feng" in his books, Guangzhou's annual sex lollapalooza draws hundreds of thousands of visitors every year. "Sex is like food," Zhang said in a 2010 interview. "It functions at the very root of human society." Everyone has been tittering wit ...

Sibling rivalries can get intense, as history's Li Shimin, the Prince of Qin, and his brother Li Jiancheng, the Crown Prince, has shown. But one little emperor in Kaili, Guizhou province took rather drastic measures against his sister not for power or wealth or dominion over a princedom or country, but a remote control. Guiyang Evening Paper has this story of this violent domestic dispute. One day, a 17-yea ...

The thing about explosions on TV and movie sets is they have to be manageable. As a result, you'll get a big bang and some fireworks, but rarely a sense of danger for the characters in the explosions. In real life, things are liable to get more hairy. Take a look at the streaks of fire that start creeping along the ground in the surveillance footage above, involving an oil tanker at a Dongguan, Guangdong pr ...

Has unrest again hit Foxconn? New York-based advocacy group China Labor Watch reports that yesterday at about 1 pm in Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan province, "three to four thousand production workers" went on strike after Foxconn demanded they work holidays and "raised overly strict demands on product quality without providing worker training for the corresponding skills." The majority of workers who par ...

What's wrong with this scene? Let's count the ways. You have the old man either trying to prevent a fight or instigating one, or doing both. There's the child, tortured by the adults' incompetence, who plugs his ears and wishes he were never born. (Don't fret, kid, life gets better.) There's the young man in what looks like brown leather loafers and hipster-black jeans, the one identified in this video titl ...

[caption id="attachment_5643" align="alignnone" width="336" caption="Photo via Shanghai Rolex Masters"][/caption] While many of his rivals, including Novak Djokovic, are currently in Beijing for the China Open, top-ranked Roger Federer landed in Shanghai yesterday for an event called the Shanghai Rolex Masters. That's him above, looking nonplussed about death threats against him posted anonymously on a Baid ...

The five-member outfit M.I.C. released its second full-length album, Color, on August 8, on which you'll find this track. Wikipedia calls M.I.C. a "boy band," but we prefer this endorsement by cfensi: "What set this album apart from the last self composed album by MIC is that not only are the members penning their own lyrics and compositions but they are also in full control of the production process in the ...

Wired brings us this story of artist Chris Eckert's "Party Gift," a sculpture featuring a creepy, lifelike eyeball in a red box adorned with Chinese Communist Party insignia and a wooden block print of Mao Zedong. Let's linger a bit on that eyeball, shall we? Eckert explains: "For me, the relationship between the eye, the box and the viewer can change abruptly. Sometimes the blue eye is trapped inside the b ...