On Tuesday, the Jian River (涧河) in the city of Luoyang in Henan province (洛阳) turned into a bright sanguine shade of red, resembling nothing so much as a biblical river of blood. However, rather than marking the occasion of Damien's descent upon central China, the cause of the river becoming apocalyptic in character was red dye being dumped into the city's storm water pipe network, by two illegal dye workshops.
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Photos: River in Luoyang turns bright red from illegal dumping
China in the Bible?!
If you're tired of all the debate over whether China's headed to be the Next Great Superpower, fret no more! We found the answer, and we found in a place some of us (and probably most Chinese) never though to look: the Bible.
2012: Lessons on how to be a Chinese box-office hit
2012, the new apocalyptic movie by director Roland Emmerich, opened this weekend in Shanghai to smashing box office records, showing that Hollywood's discovered at least one way its blockbusters can make a killing in China - by pandering to the Chinese.
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