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Watch: Huge brawl between Tibetan street vendors and locals on Beijing restaurant street
Beijing's Gui Jie (Ghost Street) is a hugely popular restaurant street lined with over one hundred eateries, it was also the setting of the above brawl on Sunday afternoon (allegedly) between Tibetan street vendors and Han restaurant owners, uploaded by Ai Weiwei to Youtube. More information as and when it becomes available. [ more › ]
Watch: Li Bingbing visits African elephant reserve to highlight illegal ivory trade
The AFP reports: One of China's best-known actresses Li Bingbing travelled to Samburu National Reserve on Wednesday. The aim of the trip is to highlight the illegal ivory trade driving the increasing number of illegal killings of elephants across Africa, and to support efforts to reduce demand for ivory in Asia. [ more › ]
Watch: Gorgeous time-lapse of Hong Kong
This gorgeous time-lapse, shot by Javin Lau, is intended to "illustrate the grandeur of Hong Kong that most people will never get to see". Talking of things people will never get to see, Lau says he was inspired by Tom Cruise action flick Oblivion, which (as far as I can tell) isn't slated for release in China. [ more › ]
Watch: Punk rock in Beijing
When you think of Beijing, punk rock is probably not the first thing that comes to mind, but as Crane.tv discovered, the capital has a lively Oi! Punk scene, one that recently played host to (not that punk rock anymore) Jonny Rotten. [ more › ]
24 people have holiday ruined by unplanned plunge into river from Fenghuang bridge
International Worker's Day was going so well for 24 holidaymakers in Fenghuang, Hunan province, until a bamboo suspension bridge tilted sending them plunging, Takeshi's Castle-style, into the water below. [ more › ]
Watch: GM pulls "ching-ching, chop suey" advertisement
The advertisement opens in a 1920's-style America flush with fedora hats, neon lights, and folksy racism. The background track, Parov Stelar's Booty Swing, has caused General Motors to frantically pull the video from its websites; something about the lines "In the land of Fu Manchu [...]Show More Summary
Don't bring your pet birds on the subway during an avian flu outbreak
Look, I know Mr Tweety has important bird business to do, and while of course bird law protects your right to bring your avian pets on the subway, I'm just saying that maybe the middle of a bird flu epidemic isn't the best time to take your bird for a ride on the Shanghai Metro. [ more › ]
Yongkang road residents take to dumping water on noisy, drunken expats
Yongkang road, the popular bar street which our friends at Smart Shanghai once dubbed 'the new centre of the universe', has become a battleground between (mostly) expat drinkers and locals who are as mad as hell and not going to take this anymore. [ more › ]
The ridiculous lengths Chinese drivers will go NOT to wear a seatbelt
As any seven year old knows, seatbelts are for dorks. Getting your face mangled in a crash, or slamming into the back of the person in front of you and giving them internal injuries, is just cooler. But what about that irritating beeping in modern vehicles designed to force you to wear a seatbelt? China has the answer. [ more › ]
Watch: Life on the Up, short film about the window cleaners of the SWFC
Director Stephen Wright, producer Isobel Yeung, and cameraman Liu Jia bring us this beautifully shot, poignant short film set in Shanghai. Life on the Up focuses on Cheng Jian Wen, one of the window cleaners who keep the Shanghai World Financial Centre sparkling. [ more › ]
American Kim Jong Il biographer wants to spread the Juche love
NKNews recently ran an article on Michael Malice, an American author who has announced his plans to write an "Unauthorized Autobiography" of late North Korean Dear Leader Kim Jong Il. Malice is funding his book via Kickstarter (with this fundraising video) after publishers rejected it for being "too weird." [ more › ]
Reuters 'Connected China' almost makes Chinese politics intelligible
Who the hell is Sun Jiazheng? Oh, he's the vice-chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference! Track China's leaders and their careers, connections, and news appearances with Reuters' "Connected China" interactive flash app, and become the coolest guy at Politburo-themed parties. Uniform not included. [ more › ]
Watch: Laowai really don't know Chinese politics
Those crazy laowai! When asked to name China's current president and prime minister, they either 1) name the first Chinese politician who comes to mind; 2) flounder wildly; 3) spit random syllables (1:12); or 4) describe rambling back stories (1:25). Show More Summary
Watch: Four month old baby stands unsupported on father's hand
A proud father from Shandong province attracted the attention of reporters when he posted a photo of his four month old daughter apparently standing unassisted on his hand. A local TV station sent along a cameraman to film girl, Yue Yue, standing like a boss. [ more › ]
Watch: North Korean defector, South Korean soldier talk about nuclear test
Not all North Koreans on TV act as excited as the nation's news anchors. Park Sung-Shin, interviewed by the AFP, escaped from North Korea and is now tasked with apologizing on behalf of the nuke-toting country from which she came. Park expresses her displeasure Dictator Kim's militarism and the country's history of brain washing. Show More Summary
Watch: Skateboarding across China
Shanghai-based skateboarder Kristian Kvam Hansen and his friends have been travelling and skateboarding across China for a year, and this is the video postcard they came home with. Nice work. [ more › ]
Watch this Jiangsu man's explosive fishing technique
This video, shot in Haimen, Jiangsu province, shows a Chinese fisherman with an... innovative technique: chucking homemade explosives into the river and scooping out the dead fish afterwards, Saddam Hussein style. (Apologies for the vertical camera syndrome, but these guys don't seem like the sharpest tools in the shed.) [ more › ]
Li Na could soon be the world's highest earning female athlete
Li Na, the Chinese tennis superstar with more personality and humour than ten Andy Murrays, is on course to become the highest earning female athlete in the world. [ more › ]
Husband hides 15000 yuan in quilt, wife airs quilt
The Weather Girls wanted men, the ancient Egyptians got frogs. Far better than frogs and men is of course a rain of money, and that's what Nanjing residents received yesterday when a woman shook out a quilt that her husband had hidden 15000 yuan in. [ more › ]
Jackie 'US is most corrupt' Chan branded anti-American
Like a mumbling Clint Eastwood talking to an invisible man, Chuck Norris's homophobia, or Vin Diesel's face, Jackie Chan is one ageing action hero that cannot help but provoke criticism. Last month he called the US the 'most corrupt country in the world' in an interview on Hong Kong/Chinese TV station Phoenix TV. [ more › ]
