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China
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This Video Showing A David Beckham Stampede In China Will Leave You Shaken [VIDEO]
21 Jun 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
David Beckham has a strong fan following in Shanghai, China. His fans were so excited to see the retired football star that a stampede ensued injuring seven people and resulting in the cancellation of the event.
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Obviously China Is Beaming The First Live Lecture From Space To Earth [VIDEO]
21 Jun 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This is a first: Chinese astronauts delivering a live lecture from the Tiangong 1 space module. The lesson included demonstrations of weightlessness and “the properties of surface tension while in microgravity.” Students were also able to interact with the astronauts and ask questions.
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Chinese Teenager Handcuffed And Publicly Shamed For Spilling Water On A Government Car
30 May 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A 13-year-old Chinese girl was handcuffed and humiliated because she accidentaly spilled water on a government car. Roa Yao was handcuffed and forced to parade up and down the street for at least 20 minutes.
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Oh Boy – China Is Now Running Digital War Games To Practice “Informationalised Warfare”
29 May 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Accused of hacking on “a global scale,” China is set to embark on its first ever digital war games. Washington and the Pentagon have been accusing the country of engaging in cyber hacking attacks on the United States Military.
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Mellow: This Man Has Been Living In A Cage At Home For 10 Years
28 May 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
42-year-old Wu Yuanhong has been locked in a cage for almost a decade. Find out the shocking reason why after the jump.
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A City In The Sand – Check Out China’s Desert Oasis [GALLERY]
15 May 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Yueyaquan Crescent Lake is situated in the middle of China’s Gobi Desert. The lake is 218 meters long and contains pure spring water. The 2000-year-old city dating back to the Han Dynasty is now a popular tourist attraction, but used to be a stop on the silk trade route
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Shocking Footage Shows Beijing Dance Teacher Abusing Students [VIDEO]
30 Apr 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A dance instructor in Beijing, China can be seen verbally and physically abusing her students in class. The instructor kicks her students, hits them with a cane and slaps them on the head when they are not dancing correctly, bringing them to tears and shouting at them for that too.
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Solar Panel Companies All Over The World Are Failing – Here’s Why
03 Apr 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Last month Chinese solar panel making company, Suntech Power filed for bankruptcy. And it seems it’s not the only solar panel manufacturer heading into trouble, with bankruptcy fears looming for a multitude of solar panel makers across the globe. Innovation in the industry has also taken a decisive dip as a compound effect of the […]
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How To Deliver Bamboo Like A Boss [VIDEO]
22 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In China bamboo is used to cover entire buildings while they are being renovated. Obviously, this requires the transportation of significant quantities of bamboo. Those same significant quantities would also require labour to unload said bamboo, right? Not in China, my friend. Ingenuity, nous, and a deep knowledge of what his tools can and can’t do drives […]
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Fleeing North Korea – A First Hand Account
20 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Hana Lee is an 18 year old girl who fled her native North Korea on foot in 2000. Fleeing to China, Lee was on the run from North Korean authorities and unsympathetic Chinese officials for five years. Lee is currently living in Japan and attending a university there. Known as a “dappokusha,” meaning “person who has fled […]
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China’s Version Of Dubai Is An Economic Ghost Town
27 Feb 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A man made island of sail-shaped skyscrapers surrounded by tropical seas was billed to be China’s Dubai. But unlike Dubai, Phoenix Island has not been able to rise from the ashes. Property on Phoenix Island is considered a bad investment in light of the recent economic downturn. With China’s unstable economy proving to be crippling for the […]
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WATCH: Chinese Official Throws A Tantrum At Airport Boarding Gate [VIDEO]
26 Feb 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Whoopsie. Here we have the classic boarding gate near miss scenario, combined with your standard government official self-entitlement complex, whipped into a beautiful medley of foot-stomping. After Yan Linkun (a mining company executive and CPPCC member) and his family arrived late for their flight back to Guangzhou from Kunming Changshui airport, it wasn’t the end of the world […]
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Wednesday Morning Spice
20 Feb 2013 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Report links Chinese military’s hacks against the US. Massive airport diamond heist. Zuma’s home compared to Hitler’s. Prince sells A380 ‘flying palace.’ iPhone update fixes email and battery life. BBC apologises for Pistorius-related Hendrix song. Pippa’s new guy.
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China’s New MONSTER Transport Plane Takes Flight For First Time [VIDEO]
29 Jan 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
On Saturday, the Chinese military conducted its first successful test flight of their first domestically made jumbo airfreighter.
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Monday Morning Spice
14 Jan 2013 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Beijing smog reaches hazardous levels for 3rd day. Ecclestone says bribery trial will be amusing. Costa Concordia 1 year anniversary. Massive anti-gay marriage march in Paris. Cops shoot man in US cinema. Affleck wins two Golden Globes.
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33-Ton Shark Aquarium Bursts Open In Shanghai Shopping Centre [VIDEO]
28 Dec 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
A 33-ton shark aquarium burst open in a Shanghai shopping centre earlier this month. The incident caused injuries to eight shoppers and seven security staff due to the falling glass and debris as the tank shattered. Three sharks and several turtles also died.
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INTERVIEW: Naspers CEO Koos Bekker On Acquisitions, Operations in China, E-Commerce And The Death Of Print
03 Dec 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
One of 2oceansvibe’s favourite South Africans and former guest, Koos Bekker, conducted an interview with Summit TV and featured on BDlive. Click through to see what Koos has to say about newspapers, digital media, Naspers, their operations in China, and acquisitions.
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Prepare Yourselves For China’s New Glamorous First Lady
13 Nov 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
China is preparing for its new president, and one of the most glamorous First Ladies world politics has ever seen. But will she match up to Not-The-Real-Excellent Horse-Like Lady?
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Foxconn Factory Admits To Employing Kids As Young As 14
17 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Foxconn, the largest electronics manufacturer in the world, has admitted that some of its employees may not have met the minimum age of employment in China. Already a subject of huge controversy surrounding its labour conditions, this latest allegation is not helping the manufacturer’s ailing reputation.
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China’s Week Long Holiday Is Causing Insane Traffic Jams [PICS]
01 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Today marks the beginning of the National Day Golden Week, a seven-day long national holiday in China. In celebration of the occasion, the government decided to lift the tolls on all of the country’s roads, prompting a flood of eager travellers and some of the worst traffic jams ever seen – by last night there were already 85 million people on the roads, up 13% from the previous year.
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Outrage Over Chinese Beggars In Cages At Religious Festival [GALLERY]
20 Sep 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
In order to keep them from “ruining the experience for visitors”, organisers of the annual temple fair in Nanchang, China, have ordered beggars to stay in purposely built cages. Those beggars not willing to comply with this are simply banished from the city by officials. The zoo-like structures are so small that adults are unable to stand up inside them. Have a look in the gallery below for more detailed images.
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Angry Chinese Say British-Designed Skyscraper Resemebles “Giant Underpants”
10 Sep 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
When the Suzhou Chinaing Real Estate Company commissioned British architecture practice RMJM to design The Gate to the East, they were hoping for the Eastern answer to Paris’s Arc de Triomphe. Instead, they found the £445 million skyscraper more closely resembled a pair of “giant underpants”.
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China’s Athlete Factory [GALLERY]
01 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Nearly all of China’s 396 Olympians qualified for the Games under the patronage of the country’s monolithic Soviet-style sports system. Most are handpicked at an early age – as young as four – by scouts, and attend special schools to train in sports assumed to match physical attributes.
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World’s Most Powerful Dam Opens In China [PICS]
26 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Just as it’s hitting its annual flood peak, China has officially launched the last 32 generators at the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River, making it the most powerful hydropower station in the world. Earlier in the week, waterflow through the dame peaked at 70 000 cubic metres per second.
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Incredible Images Of Massive Chinese-Built Ghost Town In Angola [GALLERY]
04 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
If you weren’t aware of just how prolific Chinese investment is in Africa, wait until you see these startling images of what’s going on in Angola.
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China’s First Female Astronaut Does Tai Chi In Space [VIDEO]
29 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Liu Yang, China’s first-ever female astronaut, had a night shift on Shenzhou 9 a couple of days ago – which is apparently sort of dull in space too, because she entertained herself by going through some Tai Chi exercises. In space. And since the spacecraft returned to earth today, we get to see what that looks like.
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China To Build The World’s Tallest Building In 90 Days
18 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Broad Sustainable Building, a Chinese construction company, is aiming to assemble an 838m-tall building in Changsha, a city in southern China, beating the Burj Khalifa in Dubai by 10 metres. What’s more, they’re looking to build the thing – dubbed SkyCity One – in 90 days because, well, why not.
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China’s Twitter To Introduce Points System To Crackdown On Misuse
28 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Chinese users of online Twitter-alike Weibo can expect extra restrictions to the service in the wake of complaints from several authorities that users were publishing “false rumours” on the site, namely a “points system” to track and punish offensive posts.
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Mantashe: ANC Banking On The East To Help SA Spite The West
23 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The ANC’s Secretary General, Gwede Mantashe, has thrown down the gauntlet to South Africa’s relations with so-called developed Western countries, including the USA and the Eurozone, in favour of cash-rich developing countries like China and India. Is South Africa banking on the East in spite of the West?
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Dalai Lama Claims China Training Female Assassins To Poison Him
14 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Dalai Lama made news this weekend when he told UK weekly, the Sunday Telegraph that he had been warned the Chinese government was training female assassins in the arts of poison in order to have him killed. China reckons they could have whacked him ages ago. The plot thickens, after the jump!
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