It's been four months since a 20-year-old brat named Guo Meimei blindsided the China Red Cross in a huge embroiling scandal, yet the repercussions are still being felt as the Red Cross Beijing today reported that they are facing an urgent shortage on all kinds of blood in the city. 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 ›

Weibo netizens have continued their pursuit of Guo Meimei and the Red Cross Society. Guo announced last week that she was planning to take a trip to Australia with her mom to "wave goodbye to all her troubles." The post was deleted, but screenshots survived. more ›

Congratulations, Red Cross Society! You're now in the running for most venal organization in China, against some pretty stiff competition. But if you keep overspending on real and imagined projects, then who knows, you might just win the title outright. more ›

Only shortly after a scandal involving the the Red Cross' financial management was uncovered, they have to deal with another scandal. This one involving a bratty rich 20-year-old mini-blogger called "Baby Guo Meimei" (郭美美Baby), openly flaunting all her riches (huge villa, designer handbags, luxury cars and high end cosmetics) on Sina Weibo, China's Twitter. And, she claims to be the general manager of Red Cross Commerce, allegedly a company that handles advertising for the Red Cross on vehicles. more ›

Last Friday, a microblogger posted a receipt from a lunch held for 17 people by the Luwan Shanghai Red Cross totaling 9,859RMB (about $1,500.) Now dubbed the "million dollar meal", the revelation has enraged the public and led to calls for a boycott and an audit of all expenditures made by the organization. Red Cross Shanghai has been quick to ineptly defend itself by clarifying that they are in fact a government body with a government-provided administrative budget that doesn't come from donations. In his almost comical defense (if it weren't so downright enraging), here's Global Times quoting Tian Yongbo, a former publicity officer for Red Cross Shanghai: more ›

Unless you touched down in Shanghai just a few hours ago, you know that a horrific fire broke out at an apartment block in Jing’An earlier this week. To raise funds for the Shanghai Red Cross Jiaozhou Lu fund, BEAN and Kaiba are holding a fundraising event this Saturday night and your attendance/contributions would be greatly appreciated. more ›

In our ongoing Threesday feature, Shanghaiist takes the time to count out three of....well, whatever catches our fancy that week. Here we present three different ways to help with the relief efforts in Haiti without having to leave Shanghai. more ›

We know a lot of you have been racking your brains, trying to figure out how else you can help the ongoing relief efforts in Port au Prince. While we've outlined some of the ways you can donate in this article, city-wide volunteer organization BEAN is now organizing a way to donate while having fun with friends: A reggaeton party on Saturday with all proceeds going to the Red Cross Haiti fund. more ›

Since Thursday, mallrats visiting Citic Plaza on Nanjing road may have noticed the greeting card and painting exhibit on the ground floor, right across from McDonald's. We were struck by how atypically childlike the artwork was, and then we found out why: they were all produced by children. The event is called the "Share Your Love" Art Charity program and is organized and hosted by the SMIC Private School in Pudong. We'll let the website... more ›

Hey all you laowai's out there — yes, you of the caucasoid and negroid variety (and for the record, none of those terms are derogatory) — China wants your blood! Earlier this year, we told you that Shanghai was looking for foreign blood, but this time it's Beijing, and it's for the Olympics! From the Guardian Unlimited:China's capital on Wednesday urged residents with a blood type rare among Chinese people but common among Caucasians and... more ›

Malaysia will help train Thai Muslim religious teachers and provide scholarships for students in southern Thailand as part of an agreement signed between the country's two leaders aimed at curbing violence in the region. more ›

The Youtube video shown here produced by Chinese Malaysian student Wee Meng Chee, 24, triggered torrents of invective from Malays, and support from some Chinese in Malaysia. more ›

"A local education official who organised the song and dance performance, Kuang Li, locked herself in the toilet, keeping out children who suffocated, according to Chen's blog. Kuang was jailed for four years." more ›

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Fans of 1979's Shaolin Temple, despair. In the spirit of Sylvester Stallone’s switch from the Rambo franchise to trying his hand at comedy with Stop Or My Mom Will Shoot, Jet Li has decided to throw his last roundhouse kick to the head. In a recent discussion with students at Shanghai’s Fudan University, the actor suggested that his upcoming film Fearless, the story of martial arts pioneer Huo Yuanjia (to be released next year), would be his final film in the genre. more ›

People who read Shanghaiist's posts on a regular basis must by now have a pretty good sense of the tongue-in-cheek manner in which most subject matter is approached. Every once in a blue moon, something will come along that is so immediately affecting and amazing that our usual sarcasm-laced tone just seems petty and small-minded. The LifeStraw is one of those things. more ›