Talk about some damning evidence. A photo gallery posted by PAS China on Flickr shows blind lawyer/Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng arriving at the US Embassy earlier this week. In the photos, Chen is seen smiling and, at one point, embracing US Ambassador Gary Locke. Later pictures show him being reunited with his family at the Chaoyang Hospital, with US officials standing in the background.
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Photos: Smiling Cheng Guangcheng at US Embassy
Gallery: 2012 X Games Asia, day 1
The 2012 X Games Asia kicked off yesterday. It is being held at the KIC Jiangwan Sports Centre in Yangpu and will run through Tuesday, May 1st.
Gan Lulu's boobs biggest draw at the Beijing Auto Show
Jaguar, Mercedes, Aston Martin and Lamborghini may all have brought their latest car designs to the stage at the ongoing Beijing International Auto Show, but the biggest stars at the fair were no doubt the model Gan Lulu (干露露) and her boobs. One of China's hottest internet icons last year, Gan shot to notoriety when her psycho mom uploaded a video of her naked in the shower to help her find a husband. The crazy antics of both mother and daughter were on full display in a subsequent catfight on the set of the talk show Lady Guagua. According to local media reports, Gan's eye-popping outfit almost touched off a small-scale unrest at the show.
Gallery: Dumped capsules turn drainage channel into river of rainbows
A huge quantity of capsules shells was found dumped into a drainage channel in Zhengzhou, He'nan province, turning the 300-meter long dyke ditch into a "river of rainbows" and even dying the water bluish green.
Photos: Shanghai Fashion Week
The 2012 Autumn/Winter edition of Shanghai Fashion Week just wrapped up yesterday, showcasing some of China's upcoming designers. Actor Chen Ye and Designer Xiao Yu made appearances at the show, which took place in Xintiandi from April 11-17.
Photos: F1 Chinese Grand Prix weekend
Formula One was in town this weekend for the ninth annual Chinese Grand Prix. German driver Nico Rosberg took home the trophy, picking up his first ever F1 victory. Rosberg also was also the first Mercedes driver to win a circuit since 1955.
Photos: Rock-a-Bop @ O-Malley's
Photos from Rock-a-Bop, billed the first ever "rockabilly" themed party in Shanghai, held at O-Malley's on Saturday. Pictures by HeyItsWilliam.
Photos: Ground broken on Shanghai's amazing underground hotel
The Intercontinental Shanghai Shimao Wonderland hotel will be built deep within a 100-meter pit in Songjiang District.
Spotted: Mark Zuckerberg on vacation with girlfriend in Shanghai
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has been spotted on vacation with his girlfriend Priscilla Chan in Shanghai.
Listen: Ex-pornstar Sora Aoi's theme song of her first Chinese movie
Ex-pornstar Sora Aoi has released her new Chinese single "The Second Dream". This song is the theme of her first Chinese movie "The Second Dream" (第二梦) which marks her acting debut in the People's Republic. The movie is expected to be available online on March 28.
Pics found on the phone of Chinese gangster feature porsches, cash, and beatings
It appears the world's dumbest gangster left a phone lying around with photos of his crib, RMB stacks, cars, and favorite shakedowns for anyone to snatch and upload to the web for everyone to see. In fact, the scenario seems almost a bit too perfect, what with him proudly posing in front of cars sporting a hideous back tattoo that makes Steve O's look like a Renaissance mural. One could even say he did it himself, or this "Jong" Gotti may not really be the OG the pics suggest, but just another wannabe.
Gallery: The remnants of China's historic cavalry
Ma Yuan, a Han General, once claimed, "Horses are the foundation of military power, the great resources of the state but, should this falter, the state will fall." However, after almost two thousand years of protecting the northern and western borders, China is gradually putting it's once-vital cavalry out to pasture.
Gallery: Beautiful female journalists on the "Two Sessions"
In honor of Women's Day, check out these successful female media professionals cooing in front of a microphone reporting on the Two Sessions published by People's Daily! Stay classy, official organ of the masses.
Gallery: Homoerotic Sino-USSR friendship propaganda from the 1950's!
In honor of the squeaky-clean elections that saw Confucius Peace Prize laureate Vladimir Putin win the Russian presidency in a landslide, we'd like to alert you to some steamy homoerotic Sino-Soviet Communist friendship posters from the 1950's!
Photos: Chinese protester bursts in on World Bank meeting
An angry Chinese demonstrator named Du Jianguo burst in on World Bank President Robert Zoellick during a press conference on privatizing state-run business in China. Zoellick was addressing the World Bank's new "China 2030 report" - a report advocating for more control by China's private business sector - when Du stormed up to the podium, handing out protest pamphlets and yelling things like "This report from the World Bank is poison!"
Photos: Container ships collide off the coast of Shenzhen
So this is what it looks like when two 10,000-ton vessels smush into each other. Last Saturday two cargo ships collided near the port of Shenzhen, most likely as a result of heavy fog. This particular collision luckily resulted in no casualties or oil leakage, just some nasty-looking hull damage.
Photos: The lives of netizens on Weibo
Ah, the glut of netizens and their endless repostings and comments. With nearly as many Weibo users as there are Americans, the social media platform is receiving more attention than ever before.
Photos: Chengdu lady cops don't mess around
The Chendu Public Security Bureau formed a special SWAT unit of female officers in September, 2011. There of 10 of them, and they average 24 years of age. Go ahead and swoon, we are.
Photos: 20th Miss Asia Awards included pole-dancing, rubber chickens
20 contestants competed recently for the title of Miss Asia at the ATV 20th Miss Asia Awards in the tourist destination of Haikou in Hainan province, which included novel beauty pageant flourishes like pole-dancing, and a game show segment which involved wheelchairs, rubber chickens, and meat preparation by contestants wearing bikinis.
Gallery: Millions head home for Spring Festival
In Chinese, 春运 (chūnyùn) refers to the extremely high traffic load surrounding Spring Festival each year when millions of Chinese make the trip home to visit their families and spend time in their hometowns. This year, 31.58 million are expected to travel, clogging China's roads and railways and testing the resolve and patience of workers and travelers alike.
Photos: Fake "rubber" bouncing eggs found in Shandong
2012 is looking to be par-for-the-course in China's food industry. So far we've already seen cancerous peanuts, flies mushed into pork jerky, and condoms both in yogurt and made of yogurt. This time around, the fake egg scare has come back again with a vengeance, as a man in Yantai, Shandong has unfortunately discovered.
Photos: Nanning police arrest 14 "street girls," all are actually men
In Guangxi, Nanning police recently arrested 14 "girls" who were patrolling the streets looking for customers, and discovered all of them were actually men.
Photos: Child labor in the mines of Sichuan
These pictures are the result of a photography contest by the United Nations Development Program and the Xinhua News Agency to raise awareness about child labor in Liangshan county, Sichuan province.
Gallery: The children left behind by China's migrant workers
Similar to the Empty Chairs gallery published a few months ago, a gallery put together by Xinhua highlights the "One Family, Two Places" (一家两地) phenomenon of China's migrant workers. Approximately 58 million children are left behind by parents who move away to seek employment. Migrants are often barred from bringing their families due to the Hukou household registration system.
Gallery: China's hottest internet icons of 2011
The Chinese internet is full of people who, though often entirely undeserving of attention, receive copious amounts of it for seemingly no good reason. Whether arriving at momentary fame through careful corporate promotion or sheer dumb luck and timing, each of these individuals has managed to secure a place in the Internet Hall of Fleeting Fame
Photos: Remembering the massacre at Nanjing, 74 years later
We'll end our coverage today with a series of photos remembering the 300,000 who lost their lives 74 years ago in Nanjing during the uncertain and tumultuous time that was the Second World War.
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