Guangdong party chief Wang Yang may have won praise for his light-handed approach in dealing with Wukan, but has he actually opened the floodgates for a wave of land grab protests? Yesterday, 1,000 villagers rallied at the Guangzhou city government headquarters as the provincial people's congress met elsewhere in the city for the closing ceremony of its annual session, according to the South China Morning Post: more ›

Guangdong's Wukan village will re-elect new village leaders after a wave of massive protests which lasted for around 3 months captured nationwide attention. Lin Zulian (林祖恋), the protest leader as well as the chief of a committee running the village after protesters gained control, has been appointed as the village's Party Chief and is to organize the upcoming village election. more ›

A Guangdong member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), China's political advisory body, has proposed to build a "Goddess of Harmony" (和谐女神像) at an important bridge linking Hong Kong, Zhuhai and Macau. more ›

What's worse than making a condom out of yogurt? How about finding a condom in your yogurt? Wednesday afternoon in Guangzhou, a woman bought 4 boxes of yogurt, and discovered a condom swimming in one of the cartons of yogurt... after she took a bite. more ›

In Meizhou, Guangdong, a police officer attempted to stop a car with an obscured license plate on a busy road during rush hour. The driver, however, attempted to escape with little regard for others' lives or property - wreaking havoc on the surroundings before eventually being forcibly detained by the police and astonished passersby. more ›

Food safety regulators in Shenzhen, Guangdong, say they've found carcinogenic mildew in peanuts and cooking oil more ›

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 ›

A 38-year-old South African woman by the name of Janice Bronwyn Linden (pictured right) has been executed more than three years after she was arrested for being found with 3kg of methamphetamine upon her arrival in the Guangzhou airport. Her death sentence was carried out by lethal injection (and witnessed by her own family members) just days after a Filipino was executed for a similar crime, sparking protests in the city of Manila. more ›

On Sunday, a Henanese couple decided the best way to pay off their outstanding hospital bill was to walk the streets bare naked with their children in tow in Dianbai County, Guangdong. more ›

Residents of Shenzhen can let out a sigh of relief and help people on the streets without the fear that the person they're helping is going to turn around and sue their rescuer. In light of the recent Yueyue debacle, Shenzhen has drafted China's first Good Samaritan Law to encourage the general public to help those in need. 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 ›

A 14-year-old boy has been sentenced to 12 years jail for killing his mother and sister in Guangdong's Liannanzhaigang Town more ›

A senior student in Dongguan University of Techonology has given himself up to the police for killing a sophomore after a failed attempt to rape her. The would-be rapist surnamed Ao followed Liang Rongcai (梁荣彩), the victim, to the washroom and attempted to rape her. Encountered with Liang's resistence, Ao killed her and subsequently escaped. more ›

Andrew Steven, an Englishman who claimed he was robbed in Shenzhen, had been begging around the Guangzhou's Zoo Metro station. The man, who appeared to be in his 40s, was seen sitting with his passport and a request letter at the parterre adjacent to a Subway station. more ›

Our doubts that the koala-like animal on sale in the Guangzhou restaurant isn't really a koala have been confirmed. They are, in fact, far from similar, as you can see in the picture on the right. The city's New Express Daily tracked down Hotel Fisher, a restaurant known for its wild and exotic cuisine where the supposed koala meat was being sold at 139 yuan per half kilo. more ›

In a video spreading like wildfire around the 'nets, two students who reportedly caused their class's school bus to leave late are forced by their teacher to stand for five minutes and repeatedly hit each other across the face. 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 ›

At 11:17am yesterday, at Xixiang Village in Shenzhen's Bao'an district, a 1 and a half-year-old young girl was killed outside of her home after she was struck by a truck. more ›

Disaster has struck again in Guangdong province, where the death of two-year-old toddler Yueyue after a double hit-and-run has left the nation and the world stunned with the apathy of bystanders who left her bleeding by the roadside. Two three-year-old kids have been knocked down in separate incidents under eerily similar circumstances, both just metres away from their parents' shophouses. 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 ›

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 ›