Kill them, of course. A man surnamed Jiang has been detained and charged for killing one and injuring three others after they interrupted the little rumpus-stumpus he was having with two hustlers in his car parked on a road in Foshan, Guangdong. The details: more ›

The roughly 7 minute long mini-movie seeks to inspire people to combat indifference in society. The film reenacts the now infamous event that occurred in Foshan, Guangzhou, wherein a small girl named Yueyue was struck by two trucks and ignored by numerous passersby before eventually succumbing to her injuries in a hospital. more ›

More horrible news from Foshan's Nanhai district, the exact same area where the double hit-and-run of two-year-old toddler Yueyue made international news last month. Nurses at the city's Nanhai District Red Cross Hospital dumped a newly-born infant in a plastic bag in the toilet, thinking it was dead when it was actually still alive. more ›

Yueyue's ashes have been returned to her hometown in Shandong province after her cremation in Guangzhou on October 29. Her father Wang Chichang's phone has been ringing off the hook with calls and texts from strangers, some requesting financial assistance, and others expressing doubts over his arrangement of donations he had received, accusing him of appropriating the money to himself. In a recent interview with state broadcaster CCTV, Wang said the donations he had received put him in a quandary. more ›

The parents of Yueyue, the Foshan toddler who passed away after a week-long battle for her life following a horrific double hit-and-run that has hogged international headlines, have engaged a lawyer to sue the two drivers that knocked her down. more ›

The outpouring of sympathy and the flood of donations from around the nation has given Yueyue's parents a major headache even as doctors continue to work overtime to save the life of the toddler caught in the Foshan double hit-and-run that has now made international headlines. more ›

Chen Xianmei, the illiterate scrap peddler who picked up Foshan toddler Yueyue off the street, has fled the city after being overwhelmed by hundreds of media requests and random groups coming out of the woodwork to give her piles of cash. more ›

Commendations, rewards and job offers have come flooding in for Chen Xianmei, the 58-year-old scrap peddler who came to the rescue of Yueyue, the Foshan toddler who was left to die by the side of a road after a double hit-and-run last week. more ›

Adam Minter, author of the Shanghai Scrap blog, who has spent hundreds of hours wandering in China's scrap recycling markets says he was intrigued by the large white sacks caught on the CCTV footage of the Yueyue incident. He says Chen Xianmei is more accurately discribed as a "scrap peddler" rather than a "trash collector" and offers the following reasons: more ›

Journalists have located Chen Xianmei, the woman who came to the rescue of Yueyue, the two-year-old toddler who was knocked down by two vehicles and left to die by 18 passersby in Foshan, Guangdong province. 58-year-old Chen works as a domestic helper for a hardware shop in the market by day, and a trash collector by night. The girl's parents are inconsolable when they finally meet their benefactor and kowtow to her profusely. more ›

Earlier media reports that Yueyue, the toddler who was knocked down by two vehicles outside a market in Foshan, has passed away have turned out to be false. more ›

The two-year-old girl, Yueyue, who was knocked down by two vehicles outside a market in Foshan and left to die by the roadside until a trash collector came to help her has passed away. more ›

Warning: The following video contains graphic images not suitable for all viewers. If you have children with you, please lock them out of your room before clicking on this video. more ›

WARNING: You may find the images in this video disturbing. more ›

Is industrial safety standard reform going to happen anytime soon? Fires and other accidents certainly occur often enough: "At least 14 people were killed when a fire ripped through a dormitory building belonging to a ceramics factory in south China early Tuesday, the local government said. The blaze engulfed the building belonging to the Shengfeng Ceramics Factory in Foshan city, a manufacturing centre in China's southern Guangdong province, the local government said in a statement on its website. The fire took three hours to extinguish, leaving 14 people dead and two others seriously wounded, the statement said, without identifying the victims. According to the People's Daily website, two people were killed when they leapt from the windows of the building. The cause of the blaze is under investigation, the People's Daily report said." [AFP]. more ›

On the morning of July 23, in reaction to a dispute over the ownership of a local fish pond, villagers near Foshan, Guangdong arrived at the local fish market carrying weapons, planning to "teach a lesson" to the head of the fish market. When police arrived to investigate, the villagers attacked and overturned the police vehicle. They then tied the officers to the overturned vehicle, and began pouring gasoline around them! more ›

Police in Foshan, Guangdong are realizing that they can cooperate with netizens to solve crimes and get some good PR. According to a Southern Metropolis article translated by ESWN, Foshan has an online "Police Affairs Room," a forum where netizens can register complaints or leave tips, monitored by an 'online sheriff,' officer Liao Haibiao. Already, eyewitness footage has helped police investigations and quick responses and constant updates from the PSB have turned the "vicious cycle in which the police and the people don't have basic trust of each other." He added, "when there is an incident, we should disclose the truth immediately...when I can solve problems in a timely and effective manner while being monitored by society, the netizens will see the results." Underlining yet again that a little more transparency would be good for everyone. more ›

Computers that spontaneously combust are old news, but when a whole bus inexplicably catches fire it catches our attention. Nanfang Daily reported that a shuttle bus on its way to Foshan from Panyu burst into flames on the highway, forcing the driver and thirty seven passengers to evacuate the vehicle. But mere fire wasn't enough to stop the inferno bus: once the passengers and driver evacuated, the bus continued on its way towards Foshan for a full kilometer before finally burning out. more ›

Photo from Aileen Koh: Be on the lookout for these reddish spots on the hands and feet of your child. more ›