Shanghai Shenhua drew 1-1 with Jiangsu Sainty in their first game of the season on Saturday, thanks to a goal from Aussie forward Joel Griffiths in the match's second half. With approximately 30,000 tickets sold, fans were disappointed to see injured star signing Nicolas Anelka watching the entire game from the stands. more ›

A man from Wuxi, Jiangsu has been imprisoned after accusing his wife of adultery and carving "She ruined my life" "This is what happens to cheating sluts" into her stomach as retribution. more ›

Most people in China prefer to have sons instead of daughters to continue the family name, but not one young woman in Yancheng, Jiangsu province. In fact, she wanted to have a girl so badly she took a pair of scissors and snipped off her five-month-old son's penis. The court has handed her a five year prison sentence. more ›

A school bus carrying 46 passengers overturned in a county incorporated in the Jiangsu city of Xuzhou (徐州) at approximately 6pm on Tuesday, with a dozen reported deaths and with 3 out of the 11 injured school bus passengers in critical condition. more ›

A variety of couples took part, including some that were a bit gun-shy when it came to the moment of make-out truth, two cute toddler girls forced on stage by their parents, and even an old husband and wife in their sixties, who just sort of held each other in a mortified fashion. more ›

Police in the Jiangsu city of Yangzhou have confirmed that a man turned himself in and confessed to the crime of murdering seven family members of his former partner in crime on Sunday. The man, identified only as Zheng, is reportedly a 32-year-old former convicted felon who served jail-time in 2009 for theft. more ›

Now, that'll learn the little larcenist. In Pudong around 11:30am on Sunday, a couple from Anhui province tied up their 12-year-old son from a metal frame used for hanging clothes and used a whip to demonstrate traditional child-rearing techniques. The boy was being punished for stealing 300RMB from his parents, who work as electronic waste recyclers, to play video games. Considering that some will sell their kids to get their gaming fix, a little pocketing of your parents' rent money seems harmless in comparison. more ›

Normally, we'd have qualms about pointing you towards something so lurid as a road rage video. But in the Chinese context, we'll say that videos of a mistress attempting to run over her lover's wife with a Volkswagen Polo is a relevant microcosm for how decayed the social fabric has become. more ›

Approximately 115 acres of watermelons have exploded in parts of China--and no that's not some outrageous Willy Wonka joke, it's what happened to 20 farmers in Jiangsu after they injected a little too much of a growth hormone into their crop this season. more ›

We have no doubt that Chinese inventors will soon rule the world. Don't believe us? Well, just take a look at this video. Some wonderful company in Jiangsu has apparently invented a sperm collecting machine. Great! With this machine, now sperm banks around the world no longer need to get donors to "do it yourself". The machine boasts of a cylinder pump which they say feels like a vajayjay inside. Like it tighter? Looser? Faster? Slower? All of that, and the height of the pump itself is adjustable. There's also a screen that can play you your favourite porn in a wide variety of file formats while the machine pumps the baby batter out of you. This machine is supposedly great for sufferers of premature ejaculation because it helps to desensitise the penis. Any PE patients out there? Get one from their Alibaba store for the great price of US$2,800 and tell us if it works! more ›

When it comes to earthquake prediction, Jiangsu province has got it all down pat. No kidding:

The government of East China's Jiangsu province is encouraging residents to report abnormal natural phenomena or abnormal animal behavior, either of which may be an omen signaling that an earthquake is imminent, according to a draft rule issued by the government. more ›

These pictures were taken of the front entrance yesterday, amid reports that the opening of the park could be delayed past March. Looks to be about right, if you compare the early designs of that gnarly entrance gate with the real deal. See our previous post on the park for more details! more ›

In case the China-made World of Warcraft wasn't enough for you - there is a chance you could get yourself to a World of Warcraft theme park sometime soon... heck, there'll be a Starcraft world thrown in to boot! The internet has been buzzing with news about a new amusement park called Joyland (website here) that's just itching to put you next to a Protoss on your next rollercoaster ride. more ›

Next time you take a squat and “swipe” on your iPhone to play Papertoss or send a quick message, please remember this guy in Jiangsu province. After dropping his phone into the toilet, he had the intestinal fortitude to go fishing it out. Instead, he ended up getting stuck but, after a couple of crowbar-brandishing firemen, showed up he was able to fully relieve himself. He saved his phone but it’s probably safe to say lost the high score on the snake game he had going. more ›

Shaolin monks aren't the only unlikely football fans in China - this tofu seller at a wet market in Jiangsu Province (near Shanghai) showed an amazing amount of control tossing and kicking a bag of tofu. She could give Ronaldo a run for his money! more ›

Internet addiction centers suck - at best, they haven't proven to be effective and at worst... well, there's the whole torture, beatings and "accidental deaths" thing to contend with. So it's no wonder that eight teens sentenced to one of these "clinics" would try to escape. Unfortunately, their daring plan only worked until they were caught by the police and handed over to their parents, who promptly put them back in the centers. Alas. more ›

Can someone tell us just WHO is trying to kill all of China's children right now? The latest news just in: Over 200 students, approximately a third of total enrollment at a kindergarten in Xuzhou, Jiangsu province, have been admitted to hospital for food poisoning. Few details are available just yet, but Jiangsu police are investigating. Click here for a video clip from the "Good Morning Jiangsu" show on Jiangsu Satellite TV. more ›

This newly built structure found in Jiangsu Province's Funing County (阜宁县) , has recently come to be known on the Chinese interwebs as the "Shanzhai China pavilion". Residents of the impoverished county interviewed by Xinhua have criticised the government for spending RMB3.5 million on what they saw as a "face project" and for allocating a whopping 8,000 square metres to the square on which the 'pavilion' was erected. Unlike the China pavilion though, the structure measures only 49m by 49m -- too small for exhibitions for any sort, and good only as a "vase", as one local villager puts it. more ›

Here's a slightly more creative proposal than just that whole on-bended-knee-with-diamond-ring deal: A man in Jiangsu set up a huge billboard to propose to his girlfriend of two years, according to Netease. The proposal was a great success and the happy couple picked up their marriage certificate the next day. more ›

According to Shanghai Daily, seven workers were buried when a construction site in Jiangsu Province collapsed earlier today. The accident took place this morning in Lucheng Township, Danyang City. The workers were helping to build the new Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway, which is supposed to accommodate bullet trains that can travel up to 350kmph and cut the travel time between China's two mega-cities to roughly five hours. more ›

The local government in Xuzhou, Jiangsu province has just passed what looks like a wide-reaching law making it illegal for people to publish someone else's 'private information' on the Internet. Offenders can be fined up to 5,000 yuan and could be barred from using the Internet for half a year! The news comes one month after a district housing bureau chief in Nanjing was dismissed after netizens posted photos of him wearing a RMB100,000 watch and smoking a RMB150 a pack cigarettes. The pictures spread like wildfire on the web because those items were seen to be beyond the means of someone living on a civil servant's modest wages. more ›

Chinese state-owned media have been going on ad nauseum lately marking the 30th anniversary of China's market reforms. When Deng Xiaoping launched his open door policy, he undoubted had this village in mind, Huaxi, 100 miles north of Shanghai in Jiangsu Province, which is commonly known today as China's richest village. Melissa Chan of Al Jazeera visited the village, and found people there living in huge houses complete with all the latest home appliances and cars and what have you. Life appears to be so good there we ourselves were momentarily tempted to move there. more ›