A massive police and paramilitary presence has descended upon Fengtai District around Jingwen Clothing and Apparel Shopping Mall, the scene of either a suicide or murder last Friday. On May 3, a young woman from Anhui province fell to her death from the Jingwen building after allegedly being gang-raped. Police hastily ruled her death a suicide and refused her family's request to see the surveillance footage ...

A man from Bayan, Heilongjiang province attacked random drivers and passengers with a knife near Guangqumen Bridge in Beijing on Saturday afternoon, killing two and injuring another. Police say Li Jinghui, 36, "took the drastic actions because he had trouble in his relationship," according to Xinhua. Li ducked into a car and was dragged out both citizens and police. During the ensuing scuffle, which you can ...

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 ...

On April 19, 2012, a 41-year-old woman in Haikou, Hainan province was picking up her child when a 42-year-old shop owner confronted her because her bike was blocking his store. What happened next, one would never wish on his worst enemy: ...

A chengguan in Yingshan, Hubei province was killed in the line of duty last Saturday after he was struck in the head by a hoe. On March 16, squad leader Duan Jinyin, 34, was reportedly leading a team in stopping an illegal construction when he was attacked. It happens at the start of the above video (discretion is advised). All it took was a single blow to knock him unconscious. He spent four days in the ho ...

First, let's make clear that it could be a suicide. It's certainly possible that someone would go to the riverbank, bind his feet, then hands, then tie a manhole cover onto his body and jump in. But if you were the police, would you really rush to that conclusion in less than two days? ...

When it comes to PR disasters, few look worse than this. Then again, when you use a carjacking/kidnapping-turned-murder to try to push products out of your showroom, you deserve all the bad karma you get. Abe Sauer of Brand Channel has this story: Liaoning Tianhe Buick, a dealership in Jilin's neighbor province, posted the following (now deleted) on its Weibo page: ...

Other than getting caught, this is probably a carjacker's worst nightmare. (And a parent's, too.) "Police in Changchun are searching for a 2-month-old baby who was in a[n] SUV that was stolen on Monday morning," reports China Daily. One imagines no carjacker ever envisions himself classified as a kidnapper. ...

We have an update to the disturbing story of a murdered 16-year-old girl who might have been tracked down via her Sina Weibo posts. If you haven't been following, here's the quick summary: high school student Lai Zengyutong disappeared on January 12 in Shenzhen and was found dead the next day in an empty shop. (Her name has also appeared as "Laiceng Yutong" and "Tsang Yue Laitong," along with misspelled var ...

Whatever your feelings about capital punishment, I don't think you'll find many people weeping for Zhang Yongming, the serial killer who was executed yesterday in Yunnan province. Zhang, described by the Telegraph as a "quiet, chess-playing farmer" who -- and this imagery is kind of perfect -- "lived in a wooden shack on the edge of the village" -- made international headlines in May when he was convicted o ...

Details are sparse, but around 7:45 am today, according to Xinhua, a student surnamed Hu killed a classmate, surnamed Tan, on the sixth-floor library of Anhui Medical University. Another article speculates that the incident was instigated by either a dispute over a seat or an "emotional dispute." According to one eyewitness, Hu and Tan had chatted many times before about a certain girl, who later sought out ...

Take note, Hollywood directors: if ever you wanted to depict the smallness of man, our inability to control our destiny no matter how we strive, head out to this beach on the shores of Minjiang River in Yibin, Sichuan province, and remember this story. On Monday morning, a scavenger was walking around when she saw two bodies on a heap of garbage in the distance. Scared, she ran back and called the police. W ...

China is an interesting place. On Sunday in Ningguo, Anhui province, a thief slit the throat of a female high school student in broad daylight, killing her, and then stabbed another woman. The city immediately set up a task force of more than 100 people to investigate. Three hours after the crimes, they identified their suspect, and yesterday arrested him in Hangzhou in neighboring Zhejiang province. ...

Your "Aw fucksticks" story of the day comes via Ministry of Tofu, which has translated an article published Friday by Shandgu (with images via NetEase): Wang Zhongping, 60, was the chief director of the Bureau of Animal Husbandry and Fishery of the city of Loudi, Hunan province until two years ago when he stepped down from the post to take up a secondary job within the bureau. In April, he retired from the ...

On September 16, a man protesting demolition-relocation in Lianhua City in Changsha, Hunan province was crushed to death under a steamroller, possibly by order of the deputy mayor, as reported by KDNet on Sunday. The incident was posted onto Sina Weibo on Monday, where it has since been forwarded more than 16,000 times, eliciting comments such as, "Why should we love country?" (@manhengjie) and, "Spectacle ...

Prepare your horrified face. Yesterday at 2 pm in Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang AutonomousRegion, a man wielding a wood chopper burst into a residence and slashed 16 children in noon care, according to Xinhua. Three died in the hospital. The suspect, surnamed Wu, is in police custody. More details as they become available. Photos below (slightly graphic) via Xinhua link above: ...

Act IV: In Which The Driver Is Sentenced To Three And A Half Years In Jail On Wednesday, the Nanhai District People's Court in Foshan, Guangdong province convicted Hu Jun of involuntary homicide and sentenced him to three and a half years in jail. According to Xinhua, "The court said it also issued a lenient sentence because Hu gave himself up to police and paid part of the victim's medical expenses." Accor ...

In the most non-suspenseful verdict ever, a court in Hefei, Anhui province (read: the Party) has officially sentenced Gu Kailai to "death with a two-year reprieve" for murdering Neil Heywood, as expected. What this means is that Gu will not be put to death, assuming she doesn't commit another crime in the next two years. And then it's off to a plush retirement home -- sorry, prison -- and no one will rememb ...

A gunman in Chongqing opened fire in front of Bank of China at 9:37 this morning, leaving one dead and two injured. China News Service reports that it was an armed robbery at Shapingba District, on the intersection between Fengmingshan and Kangjuyuan. The picture above, via ifeng, was taken moments after the gunman fled; the man in the picture suffered neck wounds and is in grave condition at a nearby hospi ...

[caption id="attachment_4533" align="alignnone" width="324" caption="Alexander Yuan / AP"][/caption] If you were counting, the "trial" lasted all of a few hours, ending just now with Gu Kailai not contesting the charge that she murdered British businessman Neil Heywood. So much for transparency of law. Did we learn anything from this process? Gu was never going to win their game, so she didn't play. A date ...