Via NoCommentTV: "Firefighters freed a young boy narrowly sandwiched between two walls in Bijie city, in China's southwest Guizhou province. The eight-year-old boy was playing with his friends when he became trapped between the 18 centimeter (7 inch) wide enclosure between two brick houses, state television CCTV said." more ›

We had heard about one of the relief workers at the Dalian oil spill being drowned underneath the crust, but it felt like just another unfortunate China statistic until we saw photos of it. One Chinese photographer captured the whole event (Zhang Liang's drowning, and the rescue of his coworker) in harrowing detail - and as shocking and frustrating and anger-inducing as it was to see animals drenched in oil from BP's recent gulf spill, to look at a human struggling in the slick is even more so. more ›

As an update to yesterday's Bund fire, we present Xinmin's news report: The fire began at 4pm, across the street from the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China's Shanghai Bund branch. The flames sprung from the Bund renovation platform, starting after errant welding caused something to go ablaze. But firefighters managed to wrestle it under control without causing any casualties. Interestingly enough, the Bund wasn't the only thing to catch fire yesterday. In the same morning, six floors of Ocean Hotel in Hongkou began billowing smoke. The cause was also "welding." more ›