It's been a couple of days since we told you about Ryan Fedoruk, the Canadian scammer and fake landlord who sublet 30 apartments to 80 tenants before fleeing with RMB300,000, and still, the man is nowhere to be found. Victims tell Shanghaiist they were told by police on their last check a couple of days ago that Fedoruk still hasn't left China. But who knows? Our friend could have walked over a bridge to Vietnam without his passport, or trekked over from Tibet to India, or walked over the frozen Yalu River to the DPRK. more ›

"I know Fedoruk. He is a scammer and he ran away, owing me tens of thousands yuan," said a landlord victim who refused to be named. "He rented the apartments, then he sublet them and disappeared with the money he owed to me and to the poor tenants, but I will find him." more ›

A 31-year-old man from Jiangsu Province frittered away over 6 million RMB ($940,800 USD) in Beijing. The money was sent to him by his parents, who thought he was at Oxford University pursuing advanced studies. more ›

A safety official with a power company in Wuhu, Anhui has been sacked for harrassing a journalist who was investigating allegations by several workers that the company had been illegally deducting their wages. more ›

If you thought "Li Gang's sister" was a bitch, wait till you see this one. In this video, a woman driving a BMW has just scratched the sides of a minivan belonging to another female driver. After a six-minute long altercation in which she refused to take any responsibility, the woman eventually ended the standoff by throwing a few 100RMB notes at the minivan driver before taking off in a fit.
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Remember Li Yang (李阳) of Crazy English fame? The self-styled English guru who believes that the best way for his students to master English is to yell out phrases after him combined with hand gestures? more ›

Every few months, someone in Hong Kong seems to be filmed having a breakdown. Last time it was Airport Auntie. This time, it's a new "Subway Uncle" who, in the era of swine flu, explodes into a rage when a little boy coughs without covering his face. more ›

Adam Schokora of Danwei points us to this audio recording of a "disgruntled customer lecturing a telephone operator at a well-known, city-wide food delivery company based in Shanghai". Do a bit of research and you'll find there's only one food delivery company in town that delivers Blue Frog and it happens to be an advertiser on Shanghaiist. Does the voice of this douchebag sound familiar to any of you readers out there? We say unleash the foreign internet mobsters on this guy! more ›

Last month, we highlighted to you a post by Adam Minter of Shanghai Scrap in which he laments over the sorry state of expat advertising after spotting a full page print ad taken up by the Dragonfly spa chain in (what seemed like) every English language magazine in Shanghai. The ad featured a Caucasian man waxing himself with a 'clean' strip while his right hand (what looked rather like a chicken claw) sported multi-coloured nails that were supposed to be a "tribute to the Olympic rings". The campaign became the talk of the town, but not in the way Dragonfly had hoped for. As it turned out, the ad had the effect of freaking out just about everyone in town who saw it (and possibly up north in Beijing too). more ›

Has Sharon Stone been drinking too much lately? You be the judge. Here's what she said on the sidelines of the Cannes Film Festival when asked about the earthquake that has devastated the Sichuan Province:

Well you know it was very interesting because at first, you know, I am not happy about the ways the Chinese were treating the Tibetans because I don’t think anyone should be unkind to anyone else. And so I have been very concerned about how to think and what to do about that because I don’t like THAT. more ›

Via Speak4China which is rapidly becoming one of our favourite blogs: Shortly after Chinese netizens launched a "human flesh search engine" and elicited a tearful response from a group of three Sichuan students for their earthquake interview prank, the online lynch mobs have quickly found a new target in a Liaoning girl by the name of Gao Qianhui (高千惠). But this time we think that she kinda deserved it. First let's check out her crime, which is this 5 minute video you see on the right. Gao was basically annoyed with the 3 day period of national mourning during which she could not watch her favourite television programme nor play any games online and decided to record the video, in which she said some pretty nasty things about the victims of the Sichuan quake. Here are several rough translations of a few snippets:

"I turn on the TV and what do I see? Dead bodies, injured people, corpses, rotten bodies, all the crazy acts you guys are putting up. It's not that I want to watch these things. I have no choice. Look, now the entire internet is black-and-white and without colour. Do you think we're all colourblind like you? Have your eyes been hit by so much rubble you can't see any colour now? more ›