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- Even your eggs aren't safe now, people. After Hong Kong found Select's "extra-large fresh brown eggs" to contain close to twice the legal limit of melamine, Walmart has pulled all eggs from the brand off the shelves of all its China stores. Select (咯咯哒 or "Gegeda" in Chinese) is a big brand and is one of those "China Famous Brands" (中国驰名商标). Refer to the packaging of the affected eggs in the video, and if you have them at home, dump them.
- A 37 year old woman from the Zhejiang province has come to Shanghai to seek medical treatment for her incontrollable shaking after spending RMB100,000 on medical care in Hangzhou, but even the best doctors at Huashan Hospital are baffled by her condition.
- An Anhui man has been sentenced to death for the cruel murder of the ex-husband of his lover. After suffocating his victim with a plastic bag, he dismembered him with a kitchen knife and then boiled and steamed all his body parts before dumping them in a creek in Pudong.
- Two nights ago, Welsh expat Jesse Caldwell-Thorne, who moved to Shanghai last year, went out with his wife and friends for drinks. He went home around midnight without her, and she came home three hours later, to find him hanging outside on the balcony, with the suicide note “Sam, I’m so sorry but I’m done with this life. I’ve felt so alone since we moved here. I’m sorry for f***ing up your life. Sorry all, I’m done here.” The threat of loneliness and depression for expats is real. If you know anyone around you who needs help, refer them to Lifeline Shanghai.
Around Shanghai: Melamine eggs, murder for love and an expatriate suicide
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I think the timing is wrong on the hanging story. He hanged himself in June, I believe. The second link is to an October 28th story, but the first is to a story from June. And as the suicide note was found four days after his death, I'm sort of guessing that it couldn't have happened two days ago.
Either way - a tragic reminder of the isolation some expats feel here.
And foreign companies try to delist China as "hazardous duty".