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," ...

Neil Robinson is wanted by the Surrey police "in connection with the distribution of indecent images of children and the rape of a child," according to BBC's Crimewatch. This bit of info was posted to Reddit China by user gaiushe yesterday, who claims he has known Robinson for the past five years and is certain that he worked at an international school in Beijing. That's Beijing got in touch with gaiushe vi ...

A 22-year-old identified as a Saudi Arabian student has been detained for allegedly raping a woman, 38, on the streets of Changsha on April 4. According to Sina, the man, surnamed Alsubate, "pushed down a woman of 30 and stripped her, trying to rape her outside a KFC store in downtown Changsha at around 6 am Thursay, according to a witness surnamed Yang." ...

These are the worst type of stories. The. Worst. What we have is a foreigner (laowai) and Chinese person arguing at Sanya Airport in Hainan province. (What is it with Sanya? We saw another foreigner and Chinese person tussle earlier.) The foreigner, wearing a fannypack, accuses the Chinese of cursing and "beating" him. The Chinese guy, presumably the one filming, posts this nationalistic tripe on Youku (a v ...

Longtime China resident Cam MacMurchy, who ran the well-respected Zhongnanhai blog for several years before co-founding The Nanfang earlier this year, is nothing if not a reasonable and fair writer. We've watched from afar as The Nanfang, a community-driven website covering the Pearl River Delta, has steadily grown, expanding its listings every week while continuing to produce interesting content on its blo ...

UPDATE, 2/20/13, 2:47 am: On February 15, Robert McDowell emailed us his side of the story: that he was drugged, a fact that "everyone knows." He claimed the girl confessed. "If I was a rapist then I would be in jail right now," he wrote.  We've removed the image of him first found on The Nanfang. Pictured is Robert Dean McDowell, an American in Shenzhen who's being investigated for rape, as announced yeste ...

In Guilin, Guangxi Autonomous Region yesterday around 10:30 am, a foreigner who is initially identified as "a black man... dressed completely in jet-black" was filmed attacking random people at Wenchang Bridge. The Youku description (video embedded after the jump) tells us that an "approximately 80-year-old, white-haired elderly woman was picked up by him and thrown to the ground." You can see it in the vid ...

Beijing News reports that on Friday afternoon, a foreigner got drunk at a downtown hotel, slashed a server with a kitchen knife, carjacked a minibus black Buick, crashed into four other vehicles, and hit a pedestrian. Then he tried to flee by foot before two passersby and a police officer subdued him. Several witnesses said they saw the man wielding two knives at around 3:40 pm at Kyoto Garden Hotel at Jian ...

A foreigner nearly incited a riot in Zhengzhou, capital of Henan province on Friday evening after he got into a physical confrontation with a Chinese woman on the road. The foreigner, riding a BYD, apparently thought the female had hit his car with her electric bike, so he got out and slapped her twice across the face, according to an eyewitness interviewed in the video (subtitles are mine, along with any e ...

By RFH Sad tidings this week, via Chris “Devonshire” Devonshire-Ellis. CDE – not to be confused with CBE (Commander of the British Empire, a British honour bound to come his way soon, one way or another) – has announced that he is leaving China in a rambling post on his otherwise unheard-of blog, China Briefing. Mostly, readers are treated to a lengthy exegesis of his CV -- emphasis on lengthy -- with added ...

[caption id="attachment_3717" align="alignnone" width="410" caption="Via Sina, its caption: "A New Zealander is being taken away by police after tossing a young girl into a swimming pool in Jinan, Shandong province, Sunday.""][/caption] Sigh. A New Zealand national, believed in his 50s, tossed a 5-year-old Chinese girl into a swimming pool for "her bumping into him" in Jinan, capital city of E Chi ...

[caption id="attachment_3288" align="alignnone" width="450" caption="They're not saying "boo." They're saying "get the fuck out of my face.""][/caption] I don't know Josh Garcia, 23, nor do I know the city of Cleveland, Tennessee, the place from which he hails. Short of any other information, it's probably unfair for me to judge him for "[leaving] Zhuzhou in Central China's Hunan ...

By RFH Will the UK media be waiting at the airport to greet the British "attempted rapist" (or molester, drunk lecher or whatever you believe) – or will he slip away into obscurity? That’s what we’re left wondering as the book closes on one of the ugliest chapters in foreigner-China relations in recent months, which has included a 100-day foreigner crackdown, a wave of anti-foreigner nationalistic sentiment ...

We've reached out to the guys who shot the video -- Canadians from WorldstarHipHop, as they make abundantly clear in the video -- to see if we can get more info. It's a nasty fight, if one can call it that, with a clear survivor. There are no winners. "Someone pull him off," someone says while the guy who's standing, bloody all over, continues connecting on kicks to the defenseless man on the ground. "It's ...

(H/T Katie) Disputes happen on the streets all the time, but there's always a bad way to resolve conflicts and a better way. The example here, from Chengdu, represents the former. I don't want to speculate. But I see what I see, and others, surely, will as well: a white man spits in the face of a Chinese dude before absconding on his bike. This is bad. No matter what happened to precipitate the disagreement ...

In the wake of the "British rapist" and Russian cellist, this won't help Chinese-foreigner relations: a basketball team called the New Orleans Hurricanes -- possibly this one from Texas -- was in Jiaxing, Zhejiang province yesterday for an exhibition against the Zhejiang Guangsha Lions that ended in the worst way possible. In the above video (and below, on Youku, for those in China), players from the two si ...

Holding the party in the open air of Sanlitun Soho and suggesting “beachwear” as a dress code was clearly pivotal: the signal for Beijing’s really quite impressively large douchebag population to give full vent to their oeuvre of tics and mores. “Dress code? Dude… I was wearing this Hawaiian shirt with oversized aviators, four days’ beard growth and a jaunty pork-pie hat when I woke up!” We arrive just afte ...

[caption id="attachment_2725" align="alignnone" width="473" caption="Spotted at Caochangdi"][/caption] If you're in Beijing, don't forget about the Beijing Cream Bar and Club Awards party tomorrow. In the meantime, links. ...

The Briton currently in police custody over allegations of sexual assault may be in plenty trouble - the Beijing Morning Post says he faces a "trial" in China, and his sorry story has even been reported by Reuters, in the New York Daily News and Kotaku – but so too may be the chaps who assailed him as he lay flat and out for the count on the highway near Xuanwumen on the night of May 8 (not, as Shanghaiist ...

Global Times has followed up on the Xuanwumen incident from Tuesday evening and tracked down several witnesses, many of whom said police instructed them to not speak to media. GT was able to get one key witness on the record though: The first Chinese man in the film seen intervening is a 24-year-old man, surnamed Wu, a security guard in the nearby China Co-op Group Building. "After I grabbed his neck and sa ...