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Tag Archives: death
What exactly caused the Hangzhou subway collapse
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 … Continue reading
Shanghai Business School Fire: now comes the blame game
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 … Continue reading
Shanghai man leaves his mentally disabled wife on the side of the road
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 … Continue reading
Shenzhen night club fire: some gruesome accounts
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 … Continue reading
Don’t drink the milk…more Chinese dairy companies found to have melamine in their products
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 … Continue reading
What is going to be said about the life and death of Hua Guofeng?
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 … Continue reading
Weightlifter Cao Lei didn’t know her own mother had died two months ago
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 … Continue reading
Movies I’m watching: Le Feu Follet and Naked
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 … Continue reading
Woman with 6 paralyzed/disabled relatives kills her own daughter
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 … Continue reading
Three teenagers involved in Weng’an incident surface
These three peoplea female surnamed Wang, a man called Chen Guangquan and a man called Liu Yanchaowere there when Liu Shufen, the girl that died, was supposedly trying to jump off a bridge. If you’ve been following the news you … Continue reading