A 20-something year-old man reportedly disgruntled over the results of his "beard implant surgery" resorted to violence on Monday morning. Xinhua reports that the man armed himself with a knife and walked into the plastic surgery department of the Affiliated Hospital of Hunan Academy of Chinese Medicine and attacked three nurses, one of whom was pregnant.
A pair of sisters, ages 4 and 2, died inside their home's washing machine on Saturday around 1:30 pm in Nanchang, Jiangxi province. The details are grisly.
From the annals of incredible stories, a woman in Changzhou, Jiangsu province has claimed that she was raped in her sleep on August 29, but would not have known it if not for her assailant's friend, who also tried to rape her.
That's when she woke up.
Track athletes met in the field of the real world on September 15. The stakes: freedom.
As brought to us by China Navis via Caijing, here's a modern telling of the classic story of the tortoise versus the hare.
The city of Pengzhou, Sichuan province is "urgently" building a bridge, reports China Daily. Why so urgently? Because check out the river that the townsfolk are currently fording. Does that look like something you'd be interested in doing?
On July 23, Han Lei grabbed a 34-month-old baby out of her stroller in Beijing and threw her to the ground, killing her. This fact is not in dispute, as there is apparently surveillance footage of this sequence. Han, who had exited his friend’s vehicle from the passenger side, was reportedly upset at the toddler’s mother, who was standing in a parking space. Yes, a baby died due to a parking dispute.
Several places have reported on this, but Global Voices wins top-link for its headline: "Opinion Leader Charles Xue Forced to Prostitute Himself on Chinese State TV."
Indeed, above, you'll see Xue, an investor and influential social media presence, issuing one long self-criticism about the pratfalls of celebritydom. Remember, this was a guy who was arrested ostensibly for solicitation. Everyone has always speculated that it was actually for his outspokenness, which Xue seems to have confirmed with his 10-minute self-flagellation.
According to pictures brought to us by Weixin (that have since been deleted), a policeman critically wounded a watermelon seller in Urumchi, Xinjiang for refusing to vacate his spot on the sidewalk in the downtown shopping area of Nanmen.
