Hot internet stories, pictures, & videos in China. What’s popular, scandalous, or shocking that have the Chinese talking.
From Sina, “1,300 Graduate Students Compete to Sell Pork, Who Should be Ashamed?”:
Summary: The financial crisis makes it hard to find a job. People used to be shocked if “a good student at Beijing University sold pork.” However, more and more college graduates accept this reality now.
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Feicheng City Mental Hospital. This hospital accepted Xintai petitioners for treatment.
From Sina and The Beijing News:
Main points: In October this year, the local government of Xintai (新泰) in Shandong (山东) province forcibly placed farmer Sun Fa Wu (孙法武) in a state mental hospital en route to Beijing, only releasing him after a 20 day period, during which he signed an agreement not to expose the local government’s wrongdoings to the central government. The Beijing News’ investigations have revealed that this is not an isolated incident.
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From Sohu:
The morning of December 5th at around 9:23, Jingchu News received reports from netizens, the website of the Jingzhou City Bureau of Commerce was hacked, the profile page of government leaders was replaced by a sexy lady wearing revealing clothes. This reporter immediately contacted the Jingzhou City Bureau of Commerce, where a staff member expressed that they just received notice from the provincial Commerce Bureau that some web pages were hacked, and presently they were trying their best to contact the company responsible for maintaining the website.
At 9:23 am, this reporter logged on to Jingzhou City Bureau of Commerce website and saw that the column introducing the Bureau leader had impressively turned into a bikini-wearing “AV idol,” while Bureau leader’s statement was “to drink for my girlfriend’s birthday”. These two columns were the most popular this week, collecting more than 9000 clicks. At 9:28, when this reporter tried to log on again, the website was already unable to load.
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From Mop:
Netizen “Dan Ran 36729” posted “Girl Seeking Sex Partner” on the Ningbo Oriental BBS Forum at 20:45 on the 16th of November. The title was later modified by the moderator as “Ningbo No. 1 Shocking Girl Seeking Friend.”
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From 21CN:
Above picture: Alleged attacker Shen Changmin
Recently, news appeared on the internet that famous Korean group “TVXQ” member Shen Changmin was beaten by two Chinese middle-aged women, but following netizen’s discussions, it became that Shen Changmin was in the women’s restroom beating two Chinese girls, and one of them was pregnant. After this matter spread on the internet, it immediately caused intense netizen discussion.
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From Mop:
I love her too much and truly cannot leave her, but she is too materialistic. After returning from Singapore, she seems to have become a different person, and since then I have been very unhappy within my heart with her change. Today, I went to her house, and the topic of marriage came up. Her family is all very satisfied with me and I did not say anything, but she actually said in front of her family that if I do not buy a car then we cannot marry. MB, it is not as if I cannot afford a car, and in my anger, I ordered an F1 360 Modena. It is not necessary to say how much I spent, but now I regret it. First, I do not care about cars at all and the money for the car was from my father’s bank account (I do not have that ability), so now I feel deeply guilty. Second, I now realize I no longer love her, she does not deserve my love, and now my heart is very troubled.
Here are a few pictures, sigh:
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One of the big news this week that many Chinese are talking about on China’s BBS forums is Huang Guangyu (黄光裕) being arrested and investigated for manipulating the stock market. He is the founder and boss of China’s number one electrical appliances retailer, Gome (国美电器）, which has over 500 stores throughout China.
He is also one of China’s richest men. In fact, in 2008 he was the #1 richest man with about 43 billion RMB (or ~6.3 billion USD).
A short English description of Huang’s history from BusinessWeek:
Huang’s is a typical rags-to-riches China tale. He and his brother began hawking radios and other electrical components from a roadside stall after he moved to Beijing as a teenager. He eventually built his business into the country’s largest retail chain, which he listed in Hong Kong in 2004. He is the company’s largest shareholder with 34%. Last October, Gome became the first Chinese retailer to team up with Dell to sell the U.S. company’s computers in its stores.
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"...then they spoke in Korean..." & "Passenger unsatisfied, protests airline company's discriminatory treatment."
From NetEase, Tiexue, and Sohu:
Airplane delays departure to let “Korean passengers go first”
28 October, an airplane for Korea’s Asiana Airlines was delayed due to a mechanical problem while in Taiwan. After Taiwanese passengers suffered many hours of waiting, the plane finished repairs and was preparing to depart. But Asiana Airlines then notified Taiwanese passengers to let the Korean passengers go first, enraging the Taiwanese tour group who pointed out that this was discrimination against Chinese people.
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YC: You know what Samael, unlike you, I’m educated. I have a degree in economics and a JD. Life is about...
Gao Bowen: “So which is it? Is it the job of the media “to report facts…focus on why such tragedies... Gao Bowen: @Charlie First of all, let me clear up things for you, before I reply to your questions. A flamewar...
okura: @Charlie Agreed.
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