Monday, March 26, 2012

Boobs Show in Anhui

25 March, pageants contested in Hefei, provincial capital city of Anhui Province. 
They are breast models, the winner will get the award of Y1 million (~US$150,000).

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Thursday, March 22, 2012

The owner went crazy when the government forcibly dismantle her house

In the village of Yangqi, Guangzhou, a female owner got crazy when the government dismantled her house. 
Her house is not in the planning of destruction, Construction worker forcibly dismantled it, though.

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Sunday, March 18, 2012

The Ninth Shanghai International Adult Exhibition

March 16 -  The Ninth Shanghai International Adult Exhibition opened at the Shanghai International Exhibition Center

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The Ninth Shanghai International Adult Exhibition

March 16 - The Ninth Shanghai International Adult Exhibition opened at the Shanghai International Exhibition Center

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Sperm whales stranded on beach

Yancheng (Jiangsu Province) - Four sperm whales stranded in the shoals of beach. 
The biggest one is about 20 meters long, weighs about 30 tons. 

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Friday, March 16, 2012

Party Ousts Chinese Regional Chief, Halting His Rise

The removal of Bo Xilai, a Communist Party chief, effectively ends his political ambitions and complicates the national leadership transition later this year. 
The dramatic ousting of Bo Xilai as Chongqing party chief has sparked a huge debate not only on Bo's own fate but also the future of the Chinese Communist Party. 
The sequence of political events in the past month makes people wonder whether Chongqing Model, which Bo has made a career of advocating, has now ended in failure. 
The Chongqing Model stood for a more leftist approach to tackle China's sprawling social problems and is symbolized by more equality, better public services, a more state-guided economy, and notably, a high-profile crackdown on mafia and a strong resurrection of Maoist ideologies. However, critics also point out the Chongqing Model is virtually a purge of opponents and a plunder against private enterprises.

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Sunday, March 11, 2012

London: Jade Seal used by Emperor Qianlong valued at £1 million.

The famous jade seal (YUXI) used by Qing Dynasty Emperor Qianlong in the 18th century is scheduled for auction on May 17 in London. It is now valued at £1 million. 
The YUXI is 3.4-inch long, emerald green, crystal clear, in double-gourd shape (representing earth and symbolizing luck and longevity). It has been missing since Boxer Rebellion in 1900. 
It was checked out by Bonhams, the auction houses in Britain. Experts there identified and recently confirmed that this is truely unusual jade seal. 
The Emperor's Seal was placed in SANXI HALL, in Forbidden City. It could be looted and smuggled into Europe during and after the Boxer Rebellion in 1900.

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Sperm Bank: Less than 30% of donors passed the standard

Human Sperm Bank in Shaanxi Provincial Women's Hospital was established on September 1st last year, the first one in northwest China. 
The hospital's Sperm Bank accepted donations from more than 300 people since its inception, but less than 30% of them passed the test. 
Donors are mostly of under-graduate students and graduate students of universities, especially majored in science or engineering.

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For RMB 10, what can you buy in Beijing?

RMB10 (~US$2), one can buy three apples, or five Metro tickets, or seven tomatoes ...

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Henan - Fake police car placed in the accident-prone sections to be a warning to drivers

The simulation of police vehicle is in accordance with the 1:1 ratio to mimic the Nissan police car's rear pattern. 
One cannot identify the vehicle is fake or not from 30 meters away. 
Energized by solar battery, it can be placed 24 hours in the accident prone sections without interruption. 
So big a warning for driving at night, after placing this sections at highway, the number of accidents decreased by more than 60% during three months.

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Friday, March 9, 2012

Eating in cafeteria of Google China

Each meal in cafeteria of Google China included 30 Chinese and Western dishes, such as seafood, poultry, fish, all kinds of meat, fruit, soup, vegetables, porridge, sweets, staple food, drinks, and spicy soups. 
In addition to the common beverage such as coffee, cola, there are dozens of various fruit juices, beverages. 
So many choices and varieties, that each dish is to be rotated to appear once month. 
The chef also particularly tagged nutritious food and non-nutritious foods with different color signs, in order to adjust the diet of the Google engineers. 

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Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Female cadres in Nanning dancing for celebration of International Women's Day

Nanning, Guangxi 
Ladies of Government Tax Bureau held a dancing competition. It is to celebrate the International Women's Day.

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Ministry of Health: Executed prisoners are the main sources of Chinese organ transplant

Vice Health Minister Huang Jiefu said, the organ shortage is a bottleneck in organ transplantation surgeries in China. 
In the absence of citizens who volunteer to donate organs, executed prisoners has become the main sources of organ supply for transplants.

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Monday, March 5, 2012

App Store's 25 Billionth Download Comes From China with "Where's My Water? Free"

Apple today announced that more than 25 billion apps have been downloaded from its revolutionary App Store by the users of the more than 315 million iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices worldwide. The 25 billionth app downloaded, Where’s My Water? Free, was downloaded by Chunli Fu of Qingdao, China. As the winner of the App Store Countdown to 25 Billion Apps, Chunli Fu will receive a $10,000 iTunes Gift Card. 

“We’d like to thank our customers and developers for helping us achieve this historic milestone of 25 billion apps downloaded,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet Software and Services. “When we launched the App Store less than four years ago, we never imagined that mobile apps would become the phenomenon they have, or that developers would create such an incredible selection of apps for iOS users.”

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Hostesses at People's Great Hall

They are waiting for deputies to the National People's Congress in the People's Great Hall.

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5 representatives of National People's Congress sentenced to death

According to public information, last year (2011), 11 representatives were sacked and sentenced. 
3 were sentenced to imprisonment, 3 were sentenced to life imprisonment, 5 were sentenced to death.

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Deadly Clashes Erupt in Xinjiang

The outburst of violence in Xinjiang, a remote desert Muslim region of western China, has underscored the tensions over Chinese rule in ethnic-minority areas. 
At 6pm on February 28, in Yecheng county, Xinjiang (a remote desert Muslim region of western China), 9 terrorists suddenly dashed into the crowd on a Pedestrian Street. 
They armed with knives and stabbed the passers-by, 13 innocent people were killed and many were injured. 
Local security men could not control the violence at all and called the police force. 
Police forces came, they killed 7 terrorists and captured 2 on the spot.

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Friday, March 2, 2012

Police at Beijing's Great Hall of the People

The Fifth Session of Eleventh CPPCC National Committee opened. It is scheduled to close on the morning of March 13. 
To defend the sessions, police stepped up. 
Many CPPCC members are actress, actors, singers, dancers, comedy actors. 
The Fifth Session of the 11th National People's Congress will be held on March 5. Delegations arrived Beijing by March 2.

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Thursday, March 1, 2012

Tap water in Wuhan smells odor, every one is grabbing bottled water

Tap water smells an unusual smell, everybody in Wuhan is worrying about the water quality problems. 
Last night, Wuhan Water Group explained, "This due to the pollution in the Waterworks upstreams." 
At present, Wuhan Water Group is to increase input of the amount of chlorine.

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Young Chinese Entrepreneur To Watch

Zafka Zhang, 30, founder of China Youthology. 
Zhang's market-research company helps the likes of General Motors, Nokia, Pepsico, Nestle, Wrigley and McCann Erickson tap into China's youth culture. 
Youthology has been profitable since 2008 (five months after the company started) and is now gearing up to launch its own social-networking platform to track opinions and trends of young people throughout China.

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Young Chinese Entrepreneurs To Watch

Jian-Shuo Wang, 33, founder of Kijiji. 
Wang is a start-up addict. In college, Wang founded Hotales.net, an online marketing site. 
After six years at Microsoft he struck out on his own. In 2005 he launched Kijiji, eBay's classified-advertising business in China, now with listings in more than 300 cities. 
Three years later Wang spun off Baixing.com, an online community with listings for houses, jobs and second-hand goods.

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Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Final Appeal is done for iPad trademark, attribution not decided yet


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The largest illegal human kidneys sale ring busted in Beijing

Gang of 16 people rented villas in Beijing to establish a base for harvesting human kidneys for sale. They are now indicted. 
Up to date, this case is the largest organized crime of selling human organs. 
It is checked out that 51 kidneys were sold, the amount is RMB10 million (approximately US$1.6 million). 
The gang arranged complete process, such as, finding the seller and buyer, renting the hospitals, operating surgeries in villas. 
They buy a human kidney from the poor seller for RMB25,000 (approximately US$4,000) or less, and re-sell it for RMB220,000 (approximately US$35,000) or more. 
They usually have 20 poor guys available living and waiting for buyers. Usually, they have 3 to 6 operations to harvest human kidneys for sale.

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Coach, Burberry and Gucci are the most favorite brands in Shanghai

By statistics via internet searches, Coach, Burberry and Gucci are the most favorite brands in Shanghai.

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Tuesday, February 28, 2012

A chemical plant exploed in Hebei Province, more than 50 people dead or injured

At 9:30am on February 28, Hebei Kerr Chemical Co., Ltd. in Zhao County, one workshop exploded, killing 12 people and more than 40 people were injured.

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Drought in Yunan Province, millions of people lack of drinking water


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Slums in Chongqing

This is the Shibati Dormitory quarters

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Smuggled dinosaur egg nest fossils recovered back to China

On February 28, staffs of Geological Museum of China took "dinosaur egg nest" fossils out of the box. These fossils are of 6.5 millions years. 
These fossils were unearthed in China in 1984, and smuggled abroad. 
The 22 egg fossils are of Oviraptorosauria, including 19 eggs with embryonic dinosaur embryos. 
In 2003, an American collector in the United States bought it at a public auction for US$420,000. 
Now it is returned back to China. It is the first time for China to take back smuggled fossils through diplomatic channels.

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Monday, February 27, 2012

Taxi drivers in Suzhou got portable emergency toilets

9,000 taxi drivers got a portable emergency toilet each, free of charge. 
The portable emergency toilets could help drivers settle their difficult distress when public washroom is not available.

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Blind dating in Tianjin

On Feb. 26, it is the weekend, mostly are parents who came to help their sons or daughters to make a match.

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Toxic glue used in a shoe factory at Wong Kau village

More than 20 labors experienced of poisoning sickness, they were all engaged in small workshops, used types of jobs related poisonous glues. 
Later, they were diagnosed as "dichloroethane" poisoning.

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Shanghai's minimum wage to be RMB1,450 per month

Since April 1, city workers in Shanghai will have monthly minimum wage increased from RMB1,280 to RMB1,450 (approx. US$230). 
The minimum wage will be increased from RMB11 per hour to RMB12.5 per hour.

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Beijing's per capita GDP is US$12,447 now

People in Beijing questioned the announced GDP data, they do not feel so anyway.

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Sunday, February 26, 2012

Hundreds of US pilots could soon be hired by 12 different Chinese airlines

Recruiters from 12 different Chinese airlines arrived in Henderson, looking to hire away American pilots with the promise of bolstering their bank accounts. 
China's aviation industry is booming, they're adding new flights and new planes on a regular basis. However, they say Chinese pilots aren't trained to fly the new planes, but American pilots have years of experience. That's why they say the United States is the perfect place to find the talent they're looking for. 
American pilots were told they could immediately make 35% more than their current salaries, or about $200,000 a year, if they switched to a Chinese airline.

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Wasted chemical barrels turned to be woks

In Shangrao county of Jiangxi Province, a roadside shop specialised in manufacturing woks for kitchen use from wasted barrels of chemical sustances.

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Antique relics restoration in Xi'An's museum


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Saturday, February 25, 2012

To marry a Vietnamese bride? RMB50,000 only

There are advertisements everywhere in Chongqing: "Marry a Vietnamese wife to enjoy a happy life". 
The ads were posted by marriage agents. In total, the cost is only RMB50,000 (approximately US$8,000). 

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920,000 people participated in car plate ballot

Own a car? easy, just buy it. 
Got a number plate for the car? Not easy. In Beijing, you have to participate a lottery kind ballot to try your luck to get it. If not, you have to wait for next year. 
This time, 920,000 people are registered for the ballot. It means there is only 1 out of 45 would get the number plate for a car.

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Children were poisoned by lead emission

In Kangqiao, Shanghai, it was found that children's blood lead is far more than normal level. 
The government identified that it is due to the lead emissions from Shanghai Johnson Controls International Battery Co., Ltd. 
Shanghai Johnson Controls belongs to the global lead-acid battery giant Johnson Controls, Inc. (JCI.NYSE).

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Shanghai college girl wants to be hired as lover by nouveaux riches

A college girl in Shanghai posted her shots of sexy photos, asking to be hired as lover. 
In one of her photos, she dispayed a poster, reading: I am 165cm tall, 95 pounds (47 kg) in weight, and 38D of breast cup.

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Friday, February 24, 2012

18 men were kidnapped and forced to be slave labors

In Haerbin, at 3pm of Feb. 17, a taxi driver reported to the police that, he saw three men armed with sticks and harp knives kidnapped people right outside a bank. 
The police rushed to the scene to make the investigation. 
Finally, police checked out a ganster ring. 
The ganster are involved in kidnapping, detaining and forcing victims to do labor jobs without pay. 
Up to now, 8 suspects are caught, 18 victims are rescued.

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A migrant worker in Dongguan found his kidney removed when sleeping

When the worker woke up in a hotel in Dongguan, he found that his left kidney was removed. 
He came to Dongguan looking for a job days ago. 
Instead, he found himself waking up and lying in the bed of a hotel. Beside him, there was RMB20,000 in cash (approximately US$3,500). 
Feeling uncomfortable, he took a taxi and hurried to the hospital for health check. By CT sanning, it shows that, his left kidney was cut and removed.

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Hair cut day

February 23 is a good day for hair-cut, the year 2012 is Chinese Dragon Year. 
This time, the traditional saying is it is the date of "rise of the dragon", good for hair-cut to get the fortune.

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Thursday, February 23, 2012

During rush peak hours, shuttle buses are congested in the worsened traffic and often delayed. 
It is the common scenario that, passengers are more willing to clog into the bus.

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Traditional Hakka wedding

This is in Wu family clan of Santai County, Sichuan Province. 
A traditional Hakka wedding is held, exactly as of 300 years ago. 
The Wu family clan moved from Hubei and Hunan province to Sichuan province 300 years ago. 
They now preserved ancestral halls, tombs, old customs and some Hakka language.

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One man stabbed to death after two drunken cut each other

Fuzhou, around 8pm, February 21th, after heated arguments and physical conflicts, they subsequently pulled out machete and daggers for fighting. 
A man was stabbed and dead on the street. 
The picture shows the fallen dead still with the machete holding in his hand.

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Shanghai court dismissed the appeal from Proview


The court refused Proview Shenzhen's request that to stop the sale of iPad in Shanghai.
The court replied that, Apple Shanghai is now selling "iPad" Tablet PC from the Apple company in U.S., the "iPad trademark" ownership disputes between Apple Shanghai and Proview Shenzhen is now under legal process in Guangdong Higher Court hearing; before the Higher Court to make the final judgment, the trademark ownership right is still in an indeterminate state.
Therefore, it is still questionable whether Apple Shanghai's sales of "iPad" Tablet PC is legally an infringement.


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Fog caused contamination

As of 5pm of Feb.22, monitoring data of PM2.5 within 24 hours is averagely 133 micrograms per cubic meter, nearly double and over the limit of national standard.

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