Guangzhou chengguan official stabbed seven times by street hawker
Photo from nandu.com, of the injured chengguan official in hospital. A Guangzhou official whose job is to oversee street hawkers was attacked by a knife-wielding vendor on a busy street on Sunday - a...
View ArticleDrug-mule dogs cut open, left for dead by int'l drug trafficking ring
An international drug trafficking ring forced dogs to swallow bags of cocaine and then brutally sliced the animals open to retrieve them. Police said they arrested 75 people across northern Italy and...
View ArticleBalcony leap Brit 'screamed for over an hour' before jumping from window in...
A British backpacker screamed for help for more than an hour in fear of being raped by the manager of an Indian hotel where she was staying. Sachin Chauhan, the manager of the Hotel Agra Mahal where...
View ArticleGuanlan Print Original Industry Base in Shenzhen, well worth a visit
Guanlan Print Original Industry Base Guanlan Print Original Industry Base has become a popular tourist destination for one-day tours in Shenzhen in recent times. Located in an ancient Hakka village...
View ArticleJapan's troubled Fukushima power outage may caused by rat
The apparent carcass of the rodent was visible inside the switchboard unit in a photo released by Tepco A rat may have caused this week's power outage at Japan's tsunami-hit Fukushima nuclear power...
View ArticleAustralian man Minhas Zulfiqar, 45, shot dead during robbery in Pakistan
Minhas Zulfiqar (right) celebrates New Year's Eve 2013 with Syed Zafar Hussain (left) and the High Commissioner of Pakistan, Abdul Malik Abdullah. Photo: Supplied An Australian man has been shot...
View ArticleFerry service from Yantian District to Nan'ao suspended
FERRY service from Yantian District’s port to Nan’ao has been suspended six months after it opened because of low use and high operating costs, the Daily Sunshine reported yesterday. "The ferry service...
View ArticlePublic criticizes 'waste' of vacant homes in Shenzhen
SEVERAL hundred apartments in a Bao’an District residential community that were slated for welfare-oriented government housing have been called a waste of resources because they remain vacant at least...
View ArticleWalmart Shenzhen closes Yuanling store, new store coming
THE world’s largest retailer, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., will close its supermarket in Yuanling area, Futian District, on April 20 and open a new one in Longgang District in late April, the U.S. retail...
View Article8 dead, 136 injured as large hail pummels Dongguan in Guangdong
Hailstorm damaged homes, knocked down trees in Dongguan City in south China's Guangdong Province. Eight people died and 136 others were injured after a thunderstorm and hail hit Dongguan City in...
View ArticleYe Wocheng - Dongguan boy becomes youngest European Tour qualifier
Ye Wocheng beat Tiger Woods’ mark to win world junior title Aged just 12, Ye Wocheng will become the youngest golfer to play in a European Tour event after he qualified for the Volvo China Open...
View ArticleVladimir Tretchikoff's painting of Green Lady fetches nearly £1million...
Green Lady - also known as the Chinese Girl - was painted in the 1950s by Siberian Vladimir Tretchikoff. Green Lady was snapped up by mega-rich jeweller Laurence Graff at Bonhams auction house in...
View ArticleKenneth Knight - Indiana man who shot ex, held toddler hostage killed by police
Kenneth Knight, 45, was killed by two simultaneous shots by police snipers Knight was killed by a pair of simultaneous shots from police snipers Officers used an armored vehicle known as 'the duck'...
View ArticleUS man Deandre Devon Davis-Williams accused of impregnating 11-year-old
Deandre Devon Davis-Williams, 21, (center) has been accused of sexually abusing and impregnating an 11-year-old girl A 21-year-old man is accused of raping an 11-year-old girl, who is now heavily...
View ArticleFormer prima ballerina Anastasia Volochkova claims Bolshoi Ballet is 'a giant...
Anastasia Volochkova, 37, claimed that female dancers were forced to have sex with wealthy men or face losing their jobs at the theatre Anastasia Volochkova who was sacked from the Moscow theatre in...
View ArticleShenzhen sees its 1st Hong Kong-funded private hospital
C-MER (Shenzhen) Dennis Lam Eye Hospital C-MER (Shenzhen) Dennis Lam Eye Hospital, a private hospital owned by the famous Hong Kong ophthalmologist Dennis Lam, was opened in Shenzhen on Thursday. The...
View ArticleThousands of dead prawns washed ashore in Chile, turning beach bright red
Thousands of dead prawns washed ashore today turning a beach red. Fishermen claim nearby power stations are heating the waters after hundreds of dead crabs also washed up in the same area at the...
View ArticleGray-market apartments in Shenzhen villages favored by buyers
Apartments in these two under-construction buildings on collectively owned land in Minzhi, Longhua New Area, already have sold out. PROPERTIES and homes built on collectively owned land in Shenzhen...
View ArticleShenzhen Universe admits illegal use of sea sand
SHENZHEN Universe (Group) Co. acknowledged publicly Tuesday that one of its subsidiaries has been ordered to stop operations for a year after illegally using sea sand to make concrete, Chinese-language...
View ArticleS. Korea to ban miniskirts after controversial 'overexposure law' comes into...
Possible ban: Miniskirts could be prohibited in South Korea after President Park Geun-hye approved a government decree, meaning that those deemed to be overexposed in public will be subject to a fine...
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