Well, no one knows, just yet. There are no official answers, but from what i’ve been able to cull from the internet, there were several factors. Some people have said that the tubes used to prop the tunnel up were of inferior quality. Others have said the collapsed site was near a heavily trafficked road, [...]

Should they have jumped, why did the jump? Were they hanging off the rails of the balconies until they had no strength and just let go? Why didn’t any brave men climb up the stairs to rescue them?
Four women died after jumping off their dorm balcony, but now the debate rages on about what the [...]

Where she got into an traffic accident and was killed.
Li Jun and his wife Zhao Xue were married nine years ago. He knew that she had a history of mental illness but they decided to get married anyway.
Later on, she became too unstable. When she got pregnant, he had her committed to an institution [...]

I’m usually not a fan of the 骇人听闻 type of news but this just caught my attention: the title of the article claims that Shenzhen nightclub fire that killed 43 people might have claimed this many people b/c some people thought it was a performance and thus did not evacuate the building while they [...]

Mengniu, Yili, and Guangming products were, after investigation, found to have melamine, the chemical in the milk powder responsible for making over 1000 children sick. These companies — the big three — cover the large part of the market, which means there is a good chance that the dairy products you are using comes [...]

Hua died on August 20, and as you can expect w/ someone of his particular stature and role in history, obituaries are going to be terse at best:
On Baidu news, the Olympics coverage dominated most of the top of the web page, and you had to scroll down slightly to get to a few sparse [...]

曹磊泪撒新闻发布会 “把金牌献给去世的母亲”_网易奥运 via kwout

Her family refused requests by reporters and media for interviews and kept everything on the DL to ensure that the news wouldn’t upset Cao Lei and ruin her chances for getting Gold.
曹磊的父亲瞒女儿两个月，这期间曹磊家人谢绝了所有媒体的采访，就是不想让任何一个人去了解到这件事情，从而破坏曹磊备战的心情。今天的比赛中，曹磊爸爸也关掉了手机，就是希望此刻的他能够安安静静的等着女儿举出一块金牌。
I have to say, I can understand it in a way, but on the other hand, it’s extremely fucked up.

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I think it was a happy coincidence that I watched Mike Leigh’s Naked and Louis Malle’s Le Feu Follet (The Fire Within) in succession, on the same day. Both are character-driven movies about men who, on the surface, appear to live in the same world as us. Sure, they’re troubled—but only temporarily so.
Of course, [...]

In Shaanxi province: a woman named Li Chenghui was living with six disabled people. The article title in Chinese might be misleading because it implies that they are all mentally disabled. However, it seems that Li’s parents are both mutes (her father was severely injured in an accident, but not necessarily mentally disabled), and her [...]

These three people�a female surnamed Wang, a man called Chen Guangquan and a man called Liu Yanchao�were there when Liu Shufen, the girl that died, was supposedly trying to jump off a bridge. If you’ve been following the news you know that the family of the deceased girl believed that she had been raped and [...]