Results tagged “girls”

China recently released a bunch of military recruitment posters, and amongst the various shots of men standing next to army trucks, people marching and weapons being weapon-y, this particular one caught our eye for its exuberance.

Taobao - the place where you can buy everything... even, it seems, babies. An anonymous seller put an infant up for sale on the online auction site yesterday for the low price of 1RMB. Of no surprise to anyone who's read of unwanted babies in China - this one was a girl.

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Bucking tradition, Shanghainese parents are agreeing to have more female children and causing the boy-heavy gender imbalance in the city to decline for the first time in eight years. Boys are now only born 114.8 to every 100 girls, down from 115.2 in 2007. The natural ratio for boy to girl births: around 105:100. Okay, so it's still a ways off from reflecting nature, but any improvement at all is good news for womenfolk (and the menfolk who pursue them). Even better, it seems that the city influences migrant workers - their male:female birth ratio fell from 123.4:100 to a significantly lower 121.9:100. Source: Xinhua

We've heard that the iTunes app store can sometimes be strangely stringent about what type of applications get to be sold there - so we're surprised that this one made the cut. Stuck Pixel's Cute Asian Girls app gives you hundreds of photos of pretty Asian girls in various poses for an introductory price of 99 cents (roughly 6 RMB).

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The personal ads at enjoyclassifieds.com are generally good for a guilty chuckle, and none more so than this honest young Shanghainese lady:

The "Guanxi" SMS service has bailed us out of trouble countless times, and for that we love them.

A toddler in Shanxi province has been confirmed infected with bird flu. The two-year-old, originally from Hunan, was taken to the Shanxi Children's Hospital on Wednesday night and tested positive for the H5N1 strain of avian influenza. She is now in critical condition. This is the second case of bird flu this week, after a 19-year-old Beijing resident died after handling ducks at a local wet market. See our tips for preventing bird flu here. Source: Caijing (Chinese only)

Any kid on the playground knows that if the boys get together and make an exclusive club, sooner or later the girls are going to try to join — or at least beat the guys at their own game. The ageless dynamic is playing itself out right now in the high-profile world of Chinese hacking, a career that brings its more successful members money, power and something akin to super-stardom in the eyes of normal netizens.

Following on from the story of a straight couple's clinch on the metro in January, the latest video doing the Chinese internet rounds is an all-girl couple getting frisky on line 2.

Photo from Tom Carter:

Frisky Shanghai girl taunting her male compatriot during a stroll in People’s Square (hence the ancient Chinese adage: “Blossom petals falling like the skirts of a Shanghai girl.”)