-- How do you like your eggs?
-- Unfertilized?
-- Oh. Um.
-- What's wrong?
-- Nothing, it's just that I was hoping you'd say within an egg.
A chicken in Guizhou province has laid a monster half-pound egg, but it's not a world record, explains the Los Angeles Times:
Remember how long it took the Gangnam Style craze to make it to China, but when it got here it was, like, ridiculous?
Could we be seeing the same happening with Harlem Shake? This comes via The Nanfang's Cam MacMurchy, titled "Harlem Noodle Shake," produced by Shenzhenlocalmusic, promoting the Shenzhen's first hip-hop festival coming up on April 20. They really want this video to go viral, so help them out.
Li Hongbo loves paper. He loves it so much that he's taken it to the "artistic extreme," as Crane TV puts it -- which is apt, considering Li can "open" and "provoke" his paper art, turning/flipping/rotating it into different shapes or evocations. Check out this former book editor at work in the above video as he shapes paper gourds, guns, statues, and other miscellany.
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 video that's been viewed 225,000 times in the last 11 hours):
It was only last month that North Korea decided it would allow visiting foreigners to surf the Internet, tweet, and Skype from mobile devices. As AP reported:
Koryolink, a joint venture between Korea Post & Telecommunications Corporation and Egypt's Orascom Telecom Media and Technology Holding SAE, informed foreign residents in Pyongyang on Friday that it will launch a third generation, or 3G, mobile Internet service no later than March 1.
Sky News correspondent Mark Stone and cameraman Andy Portch were pre-recording a clip on Tiananmen Square on Friday morning for a piece about China's leadership transition when a police officer asked them to stop.
"According to a Sky News spokeswoman, police told the pair they were detained because they were not properly displaying their press accreditation badges," according to the Guardian.
One of China's traditional virtues, which we're constantly reminded of by automated messages on buses and subway trains, is to respect the elderly. In the context of public transportation, this means offering your seat. When you don't, the above is liable to happen.
In Zhengzhou, Henan Province on March 10, reportedly on the No. 89 bus, a young girl was beaten for refusing to offer her seat.
The trivial and madcap escapades of drunken expats rarely rise to the level of serious news, the kind that might be featured on, oh, the Telegraph. But recently, a standoff between locals in Shanghai and foreign revelers on the popular bar street Yongkang Road escalated to such heights that the Telegraph's Tom Phillips reported on it in an article headlined, "Shanghai residents declare war on drunken expats."
We thank Washington Post's Max Fisher for flagging a version of the above video, which has traveled from the YouTube account of British filmmaker and travel author Alun Hill (who created it) to Hong Kong's Phoenix TV, which broadcasts in China, before making its way back to YouTube... where Hill's name has been removed from the credits and some people have been, as they say, ensnared in the satire's net.
