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 ...

Morbid details have emerged in the story of the British toddler who was crushed by a "falling screen" last Monday in a Shanghai restaurant. The accident happened at Kervan Orient Express just after 8 pm when the three-year-old boy, playing with a seven-year-old girl, fell down and "touched the partition screen, which fell and hit him in the head," according to Shanghai Daily. The partition is taller than an ...

Police are investigating how a three-year-old boy could have been killed by a falling screen in a restaurant in Shanghai's downtown Huangpu District on Monday. According to Shanghai Daily, "Witnesses said the boy may have accidentally touched the screen before it fell on him. Screens are sometimes used by restaurants to divide dining areas." The boy was sent to a nearby hospital, but reportedly did not have ...

Boy they do start young, don't they? Hart Hagerty, who runs the blog Shanghai Style Life, was celebrating Easter in Shanghai's Fuxing Park yesterday when she saw this. More pictures are posted over at her website, where she writes: My jaw dropped when his pajama-clad mother handed the tot a cigarette… then lit it for him … then smiled on as he smoked it… then laughed as he rolled on the ground when he felt ...

Ah, the classic China story: toddlers falling off balconies. I've gotten a bit complacent and let a few of these tales go unblogged, but this one from Zhongshan, Guangdong province has to go up. On March 21 at about 11 pm, a small girl crawled or walked out of her sixth-floor apartment balcony. She clung onto the ledge for dear life. Seeing this, about 10 passersby quickly grabbed a tarp in expectation of c ...

Babies are resilient, you can basically throw them against a wall and they'll return to being smirking poop machines after a brief cry, but this? ...

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. ...

A 3-year-old girl in Linzi district, Zaozhuang, Shandong province who enjoys playing in washing machines recently got stuck in one, requiring firefighters to cut through the utility with hand and electric saws. Before you judge... this happens more often than you think. ...

Kids do the darndest things. From everybody's Sina Weibo accounts, this: Well that escalated. Lookee from subway to plane cabin. That's the opening line to the post introducing the image, featuring a kid squatting in the aisle of an airplane and dropping a deuce. Most commenters seem unhappy that the parents would allow such a thing to happen, but hardly surprised. ...

The cute toddler who unexpectedly popped out of a cupboard on Sunday and stole Li Keqiang's thunder -- no biggie, Li's only the second most powerful man in the Politburo Standing Committee -- has gone officially, fully viral. None other than CCTV's Sina Weibo account has formally distributed this story, with an accompanying 2-minute, 10-second video. It's rather endearing. Also, have a look at the high-defi ...

This is risky, but for those Chinese mothers out there who want a second child without paying the taxes and fines, try what this Zhejiang woman did. Via SCMP (citing Qianjiang Evening News): The 37-year-old woman, surnamed Chen, gave birth to a girl in November last year. She then gave the baby to a relative who later told police they had found an abandoned baby at their doorstep. Chen then tried to adopt t ...

Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang made an unexpected visit to a farmer's family in Baotou, Inner Mongolia earlier this week. How unexpected? According to Sina Weibo, the farmer's son was still sleeping (half-)naked in the room, so the father told him to go hide in the cupboard. With CCTV cameras rolling, the kid ran out of oxygen, jumped out of the cupboard, and crawled under the blankets, exposing his bare a ...

This looks bad. Around noon on Monday, a 13-month-old baby was run over by a birth control official's car in Rui'an county near Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, according to state media. Reports the Guardian: According to the report, he had been in the arms of his father. But after the officials started their vehicles, he was found crushed under one of the cars. Officials took him to hospital but doctors were un ...

Sad news out of "China's Florida" once again. According to Jinyang Net, a three-year-old girl named Xu Lijia has died from brain failure as a result of head trauma in Qingyuan, Guangdong province. A 35 year-old female suspect surnamed Zeng from Huaihai, Hunan, the girlfriend of the girl's father, confessed to the crime; owing to the fact that she's pregnant, she has been released according to Chinese law an ...

On Friday, a fire at a private orphanage in Lankao county, Henan province killed six children ages seven months to five years and one 20-year-old young adult. The story's sad enough without any of other details, but then you learn that the shelter was run by Yuan Lihai, a former street vendor who has taken in more than 100 homeless children, many of them sick or disabled. And then you learn that she's actua ...

Yesterday at around 8:30 am, a fire at a private (unofficial?) orphanage in Lankao county, Henan province killed seven children (four on the spot, three en route to the hospital). The home was owned by Yuan Lihai, a former street vendor who is the adoptive mother of more than 100 children. UPDATE, 1/6, 4:28 pm: It was six children and one 20-year-old young adult. See this post for more details. ...

According to the Youku video description, a toddler was trapped in a car in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province on Saturday after his/her parents locked the keys inside. But when firefighters arrived on the scene, the parents refused to let them smash the car windows, because who wants to have their car windows smashed? Oh right, the kid. ...

The Shenzhen ad firm Lanbite Advertising has come under fire recently for an eight-meter-high billboard on the Shenzhen-Hong Kong border that shows four naked children playing in the grass. SCMP has the news: Since the advert first appeared late last month, tens of thousands of commuters passing between Lok Ma Chau and Huanggang in Shenzhen have probably seen it. "It should be a private picture for a mother ...

This is precious. Children are our future. Let us treasure the things they do. Via China Daily: A group of students went to the playground during their break but found that the playground was flooded, so they decided to return to their classrooms. When they were climbing the stairs they encountered another group of students coming down. In the ensuing confusion, some students fell, were stepped on and suffe ...