Torrential rains have caused floods and landslides across northern China, resulting in 50 deaths this month in Shaanxi province alone. (And in Sichuan, this death.)
But you know which four people the landslides in Shaanxi have not yet killed?
Pole dancing is sort of big here, on subways and in an official capacity, so it's with apologies that we report, belatedly, that the 3rd China Pole Dance Championships came and went earlier this month without us noticing. Luckily, World of Chinese has our back:
Three people are dead and five injured after a knife attack in Shenzhen this morning. Reports Xinhua:
Police received a call at 9:45 am Monday saying that a man was randomly attacking passersby with a knife on the side of a road in the city's Luohu District.
China Navis has highlighted a sweet little love story that -- were it not for the overproducted made-for-TV episode and fireworks (literal fireworks) -- might be a nice antidote for our cynical times and awful rom-coms (such as Tiny Times).
According to the description on a video recently posted to Youku and translated by chinaSMACK, a street peddler was recently beaten up by uniformed staff from the Shichahai Integrated Management Office in front of his nine-year-old daughter, whose pleas of “Stop beating my daddy,” “I’m begging you,” “We’re sorry,” and “You can go ahead and take the stuff,” were ignored.
An elderly man slipped and fell down some stairs and into a pond on July 24 around 8 am in Yibin, Sichuan province.
He was not left to his own devices as bystanders watched, too afraid to help. He did not drown, inciting widespread condemnation of society and its suppurating values.
Usually, one gets robbed by a taxi driver when he/she takes you on a runaround -- the ol' Third Ring Road tour. In Luoyang, Henan province, however, one driver thought of a much easier way to get a couple hundos.
The Chinese soccer team pulled off another minor miracle on Wednesday night in its second match in the East Asian Cup, withstanding South Korea's relentless attacks and holding them to a scoreless draw in Hwaseong Stadium near Seoul. It was the second positive result this week -- on Sunday, China roared back from two goals down to tie Japan 3-3 in the final minutes, its first non-loss in four matches. Now, two non-losses in the last two. If these guys keep this up, movies will be made about them.
