Results tagged “liaoningprovince”

• China says Obama should not meet the Dalai Lama [Associated Press] “China said Thursday that President Barack Obama should not meet the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, when he visits the United States in October. Although a meeting has not been confirmed, every president since George H.W. Bush has met the Dalai Lama, raising the ire of China, which says the Nobel Peace laureate is bent on splitting Tibet from China. "We firmly oppose the Dalai's engagement in separatist activities in any country under whatever capacity and under whatever name," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said when asked to comment on a possible meeting.”

The lead character in the drama you see unfolding in the photos above is a man suspected of killing his 71-year-old mother-in-law and his 13-year-old nephew on March 30 in Shenyang, Liaoning Province. For good measure, he allegedly also killed a "bicycle caretaker" yesterday, the same day police cornered him in a room on the eighth floor of a hospital. His wife somehow tipped police off regarding his whereabouts (we don't know why he was in the hospital).

Shanghaiist reader Jonas writes:

Tickets for domestic Chinese flights may be cheap, but really, is it worth it? Last week, we told you about the China Eastern plane that blew out its tires while landing. And over the weekend, reports emerged of a China Southern plane that had its tail cone (the rear of the airplane's fuselage) fall to the ground "just before the plane was to taxi to the runway":

Liaoning Province now has a personal robot to go with all of its sex toys:

Fu Erqiang, sex toy man

We’re not exactly loath to do some nude swimming here at Shanghaiist. In fact, there are plenty of places we’d go skinny-dipping. You know the pool where Elle Macpherson swims around naked in the film Sirens? That’s one of them.