From Guangzhou Daily:

Another corrupted official fell off the horse because of his mistress. Zhen City former deputy secretary, deputy director of the People’s Congress party, Qiu Huosheng was charged with bribery of 1.05 million yuan and stood trial yesterday at Guangzhou Intermediate People’s Court. During the trial, Qiu said the reason of him taking bribery was because his mistress Ms. Han was blackmailing him, 0.98 million yuan of the dirty money all went into the mistress’ pocket.

60-year-old Qiu Huosheng was the former deputy director of the city People’s Congress, deputy secretary of the Party, previously served as deputy secretary of Zengcheng Municipal Standing Committee, the organization department and secretary of the Politics and Law Committee. From 1999 to 2002, Qiu took advantage of his positions, demanded bribes from Zhong, Nie, Huang, Li and He etc. for total of 1.05 million yuan, and provided favors and benefits for the above mentioned staffs with job changes. Every time when he demanded for bribes, Qiu’s reason was family emergency or someone was blackmailing him. The amounts of the bribes are, 150,000 from Zhong, 200,000 from Nie, 350,000 from Huang, twice from Li for total of 250,000 and 100,000 from He. The prosecutor thinks Qiu Huosheng’s action constitutes bribery and should be punished severely. However he surrendered himself, so he may get lighter or mitigated punishment.

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21 year-old-girl Xiaoqing just ended a 1 year relationship with her boyfriend not long ago. The reason was her boyfriend’s strange obsession over American movie star Jessica Alba. She could not take the fact he always dressed her up as Jessica Alba. After the break up, Xiaoqing was in so much pain that she decided to have cosmetic surgery to look like Jessica Alba to win her boyfriend back.

Because of her tight budget, Xiaoqing did not have enough money to have the make-over, so she posted a post online(on Tianya) “Cash reward offer, who can give me the make-over to have the most beautiful face in the world.” She also posted her picture, and hoped using the power of Internet to attract more attentions, and to attract cosmetic surgeons’ attentions. On the Internet, some people gave her advice, some people supported her, some people insulted her, some people questioned her, Xiaoqing’s life has changed.

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I saw these pictures on the Ifeng BBS. In Shaoxin Qiaohe, a couple got engaged and the future groom took out 988,888 RMB (150,000 USD) engagement money for the bride’s family, a 200,000 RMB (30,000 USD) engagement ring and a 100,000 RMB (15,000 USD) golden necklace.

This is really nothing rare or new in China, and there are certainly way more extravagant engagements or weddings in China, but it is still pretty impressive among the common folks in China or else it would not have ended up on the BBS.  People say marriage is a business, it is especially true in China, at least it is always more typical and elaborate.

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Recently this music video named “The whole world is laughing at China being stupid” (全世界都在笑中国傻) has been circulating on the Chinese internet. Initially this music video was “officially approved” by the Chinese government, however netizens strongly reacted to the bitter sarcasm of the lyrics which associated with China’s current situation. Soon after, Sina – the first website posted this video quickly removed the video content from its page. Subsequently, most of the major Chinese video sharing sites also have removed it.

This internet song is modified from the original song “Zhong Guo Hua” (中国话: Chinese language) by S.H.E. It uses the same music with modified lyrics. Netizens called it the KUSO version of the S.H.E song.

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Youku has top 10 lists of videos in all categories, thanks Kaiser Kuo for the link!  I picked out the funniest videos from the top 10 list that do not require you to know Chinese. Enjoy!

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December 3, 2009, 9 am in the morning a man named Chen Yu wearing pajamas, holding a machete stood in the middle of the Changsha Bailian Oriental Plaza, attracted hundreds of spectators. Many policemen arrived to the scene, as well as the SWAT team. There was even an armored vehicle. Around 10:50 or so, the SWAT team holding shields moved in close to Chen Yu and finally successfully brought him under control.

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President Obama’s China visit has ended on Nov 18^th, but he left the Chinese people with this funny picture taken during his welcome banquet at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Some say a picture is worth a thousand words, but in this picture perhaps it is Obama’s expression that is worth a thousand words. This picture supposedly was posted on the front page of the “Culture Report” newspaper (新文化报) on Nov 18. (But the front page picture on the electronic version was already changed)

Immediately, this photo, spreading through the Chinese BBS sparked many netizens creativity and comical talents. A comedy skit script was written inspired by this photo. The story of Obama meets this young Chinese girl, it turns out that she is the daughter of a woman (the waitress in the picture) he met 10 years ago in China…

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Just for giggles, two panda bears played a trick on the zookeeper. While one panda drew the zookeeper’s attention the other panda opened the door of the cage. Then both pandas escaped from the open door.

[Sohu] I am sure many people all want to do this: sneak behind Liu Xiang while he is not prepared, hug him with your open arms. On 25^th of October during the warm-up before the game, a man did just that, bear hugged Liu Xiang from behind. Liu Xiang was not happy and pushed him away. When this video was posted on the Internet, it immediately attracted netizens’ attentions.

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I first saw this youtube video on Shanghaiist, soon it was uploaded to all Chinese video sharing sites and made to all major websites and discussion forums. Number of the viewers well over millions.

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From Netease

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“Mom never needs to worry about my study anymore!” Bu Bu Gao (步步高) “reading machine” supposedly helps children to learn how to read. The main reason this commercial was so annoying was because it just simply aired too much on every Chinese TV stations. Other than the cheesy English “so easy” and high pitched voice of the little girl, netizens also pointed out the third little girl in the video looked like a grown woman’s face Photo Shopped onto a little girl’s body.

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This viral video is called “One Obscene Man” (一猥琐男), first appeared on Tudou on June 28 2009.    According to Netease forum post, netizen who first uploaded the original video added some explanations briefly described the story. He/she also added “this short video is dedicated to those students who have climbed the wall in order to access the internet. Hope you have not experienced similar things.”  The “wall” here is referring to the GFW – Great Firewall of China which is implemented by Chinese government in order to achieve Internet censorship.

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[QQ] Just for giggles, this is a recent rapidly spreading funny video on the Chinese Internet. On the subway line 13 in Beijing, a man was playing a “Bowling Game” (iBowl) on his iPhone. Looked like he was very into his game, and then…

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Today I learned a new Chinese slang, 庐舍: (Pinyin: Lu She). The original meaning is “farmhouse”. When used as slang it is a phonetic translation of the English word “Loser”. Internet definition: Netizens who are over-indulged in the internet community on chat, animation, games and making friends etc. activities, without ambition and just muddling along. This group of people are so called “Loser Group” or “Loser Clan” (“庐舍族”). This forum post explains with a nice piece of “anti-loser” music video propaganda.

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