(From Netease) September 21, another high ranking Chinese government official died abnormally. Zhejiang Higher People’s Court Vice President Tong Zhaohong was found dead in his office bathroom. Tong Zhaohong committed suicide by drowning himself. According to reports, Tong ZhaoHong had been depressed for months prior to his death. A short suicide note was also found on his office desk.

President Qi:

I have been depressed for several months, it is unbearable, extremely uncomfortable and I lost faith. In particular, I cannot work, sorry for the chaos, and thank you for your concerns.

My wife and my son are very very good people, my actions brought them misfortunes, I hope you can help them under the possible circumstances.

I lied to my wife that I went outside for a walk, I want to work, I really want to go to the office to work.

Hope everyone takes care and good health!

This is the abnormal death #9 of a Chinese official since this year.  Prior to this 8 other high ranking officials died abnormally and most of them committed suicide…

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As one of the most architectural productive country, China aggregates 2 billion m² of new building area every year, consuming about 40% of the world’s concrete and steel. However, on the flip side of the new building fever, there lie the rubbles and remains of other “older” buildings: people tear down four-star hotels to build five-star ones and bulldoze newly developed construction sites before they are even finished. Lots of young strong buildings are down, fulfilling their unnatural destiny in the roaring noise of blasting. (Source from ifeng.com and people.com.cn)

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This video captured on the street of Shaanxi Province made the local news on TV.

In the video: Around 2 pm in the afternoon, a woman dragged a boy in the street.  For some unknown reason she suddenly kicked the boy who looked about 3-4 years old over far away.  The boy lay on the floor and started crying non-stop but the woman did not stop her crazy acts. She dragged boy up and kicked the boy in the waist 4 times. Then she slapped his face repeatedly. 

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(From Netease) September 20, Hunan Fenghuang County Public Security Bureau issued a public notice which revealed the brief course of events about the death of a 16 year old girl in Ancient Phoenix City (Fenghuang), Hunan Province.

September 4, at 7 pm, a 16-year-old girl leaped to her death at the Phoenix Grand hotel. Many spectators were at the scene, for a while, this girl’s jump caused public uproar in the local area. Faced with various speculations, Fenghuang Country police issued “the truth of Fenghuang 9/4 case” article 16 days after the incident:

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(From Baidu wiki) “(Dextrocardia) Heart is displaced to the right side of the chest. Liver is positioned backwards; heart is also positioned backwards with the bottom facing right.” At 10 am, on September 12, 2010, West China Hospital of Sichuan University director professor Tang Hong held the probe that was slowly moving across the body of 12-year-old Zhu Hongmei, he muttered his discoveries slowly, “All internal organs are backwards!” Staring at the monitor with Professor Tang, the Deputy Director of Cardiovascular Surgery, Professor An Qi said, “She is a mirror baby!” This was the first time 12-year-old Zhu Hongmei and her father Zhu Daiming heard someone called her “Mirror Baby”. (镜面娃娃)

Zhu Daiming is now 76 years old. He found her daughter on the side of the street 12 years ago. Zhu Hongmei had been abandoned after she was born for two days.

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In this video captured in front of a resident home in Chongqing, a mistress showed up at the door to beat up the wife of the man she is having an affair with.  She cursed that the wife had no (pretty) face and no breasts, did not deserve her husband…

“look how ugly you are, no face, no breasts.  Are you even a woman? Your husband said when he saw your face he has no more interests.”

“I beat you, I beat you to death!  What do you have to contend with me? You have no face, no breasts. What do you have to contend with me? What do you have to contend with me?”

“Get back here… get out of there… You Chongqingnese!”

(Note: The mistress called the wife Chongqingnese, which implies herself is a from a “better” city… The mistress spoke perfect mandarin with a northern accent, she is probably from the north. I’d guessed Beijing…)

Ernai: 二奶 [èrnǎi] – kept woman; second wife; mistress
Xiaosan: 小三 [xiǎosān]: Another name for kept woman, mistress. Literally “little three”, three being the third person in the relationship. Interchangeable with Ernai.

"What is a typical 10-year-old boy’s life like? I think there should be cartoons and toys scattering around, scooter, after school plays, new clothes on festivals and lots of bounderless dreams. In a word, it should be a time when one enjoys love of the family and tastes the joyousness of growing up.”says the VJ of Discover Chongqing, who then introduces her subject of the day’s program: the untypical life a 10 year old boy Zhu Honglei (朱鸿磊).

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“1:58 am, I am sitting on my bed and thinking about my dear baby. Baby came to see me today, because he got paid today. Baby, we have met for ten months now and you have spent quite a bit of money on me. For that I am sorry, even thought you said you that you were most willing to. But I still feel guilty. My dear, today you said you don’t want me anymore, do you know how hurt I was? That day I mentioned to breakup because I was really angry. Now I thought about it and really regret. You are the person that is worth cherishing the most in my life, but I was being difficult for no reason. Today I felt what you felt, especially when you said you are going to rethink about our love, my heart fell into a deep hole, tremendous sadness comes from the bottom of my heart, I really…”

(From Netease) September 15, the police cracked down on a hidden brothel in Changzhou and arrested a couple named Mao who organized prostitution and three female prostitutes. Surprisingly, one of the prostitutes was only 16 years old, and this under aged girl was actually the daughter of the couple, the other two were Mao’s nieces. The police seized three accounting books which recorded the number of times each girl had served guests in the past year, a total of over 400,000 yuan in profit. Also, a locked diary was found, which recorded how the daughter got into prostitution, her resentment of the parents and her love story with one of her client “Baby”.

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(From QQ) Recently, a netizen from Zhengzhou posted in a forum, “The most awesome zebra crossing in the history found in Zhengzhou”.  This intersection is Nansan Road and  Fengzhuang Road in Zhengzhou.

According to reporter, this pedestrian crossing that runs through grass and trees does exist.  Zhengzhou City traffic police officer Wang Zhiyong said, about a year ago the zebra crossing was added to Fengzhuang Road.  The police has received complains and now is contacting the construction company to correct the zebra crossing as soon as possible.

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More drama on Sino-Japan relations, recently there has been non-stop rumors about Honker Union of China is going to launch a network attack against Japanese government websites on September 18, to commemorate Mukden Incident (9.18 incident) and of course to protest the recent fishing boat incident and giant panda incident.

Honker (红客hóngkè) is a group known for hacktivism, mainly present in Mainland China. Literally the name means "Red Guest", as compared to the usual Chinese transliteration of hacker (黑客, hēikè, literally Black Guest).

However, apparently it was just a rumor after all. A public notice was posted on the official Honker Union of China website as the following:

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Could not have come at a better time to add salt to the wound for the Sino-Japan relations, which was already “cracked” over the arrest of the Chinese fishing boat captain after the collision incident in waters near the territorial disputed Diaoyutai Islands.  This time, China’s national treasure, giant panda died in Japan.

(From Taobao) Kobe (the sixth-largest city in Japan) government announced on September 9, the 14-year-old male giant panda Xing Xing (formerly known has Long Long) kept in the city Oji Zoo died at noon on that day. According to Japan’s Kyodo news, Xing Xing died under anesthesia when staff tried to collect sperms from him for artificial insemination.

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(From Tugus) Chinese people, why are you unhappy? What stole happiness away from Chinese people? Author Hei Jian visited 40 countries to seek happiness.

A few years ago, University of Leicester social psychologist White visited over 80,000 people from 178 countries and regions and drew the world’s first “World Map of Happiness”. Surprisingly, the top county was Denmark. Denmark is a country of ice and snow, the southernmost latitude is still north of Heilongjiang Province of China (China’s northernmost province). And Denmark is also a high-tax country with 50%-70% of income tax. So why are Danish people so much happier than people of other countries and regions?

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On September 7^th, a Chinese fishing boat and a Japanese patrol boat collided in waters near the territorial disputed Diaoyutai Islands (between China and Japan). The captain of  the Chinese fishing boat was arrested by Japanese government and could face up to three years in prison if found guilty. (See more pictures, videos and netizens’ comments on chinaSMACK)

The collision once again cracked the Sin-Japanese relations and also stirred up another round of Chinese national sentiment as well as the anti-Japanese sentiment in China. A news article “The grandmother of the fishing boat captain detained by Japan passed away because of the stress after hearing the news” was quickly reposted everywhere on the Chinese internet.  The Protect Daioyutai Movement once again returns in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, even Chinese people around the world were called to gather the forces for protecting the Daioyutai Islands.

It is worth noting that, according to IZaobao, this grandmother felt down not long ago before the incident, her body was extremely weak and hence passed away after hearing the news.  But the background information was never reported in news by the media.

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Usually winnowing pans are used to separate grains, corns off their chafes or to hold dried vegetable, dried fish and the like for airing purpose. But in a rural small village called Du Zai (渡寨) in Guiyang City, Guizhou Province, people add a little artistic touch to this plain bamboo tool. To them, winnowing pans are best framed canvas on which they translate their love and passion for life into vibrant arts.

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