Mark Allen of Northern Ireland is in hot water after making "unacceptable" comments about Chinese players following his loss to Cao Yupeng in Bangkok Sunday. more ›

UK snooker champion and avid Twitter user Mark Allen is in hot soup. In a series of tweets earlier this week (somebody must have told him about the VPN), Allen lambasted everything about the Haikou World Championship, calling it "horrendous". He has since deleted most of his offending tweets, but here they are (via BBC) in all their 140-character glory: more ›

• After six hours of surgery, a pair of 4-month-old conjoined twins were successfully separated yesterday at the Shanghai Children's Medical Center. The twins shared a liver and pericardium, but thankfully each had their own heart.
• Supposedly somebody somewhere is thinking about extending the 48-hour transit visa length in Shanghai. They wont tell us when or for who or how long, but hey, here's hoping!
• And hey, did you guys know we have a 48-hour transit visa on arrival in Shanghai?

Snooker is often billed as a gentleman's sport and, as we all know, two crucial characteristics for being a gentleman include being gracious in defeat and showing impeccable manners. Or so we thought. Apparently Shanghaiist's interpretation of gentlemanly behaviour differs somewhat from that of China's Today Morning Express, after they reported that Ronnie O'Sullivan "kept his gentlemanly manners" during a post-match press conference at Beijing's China Open snooker tournament this week. Having watched the video embedded here (following a tip from Shanghaiist reader Rob), where the Essex-born potter repeatedly makes lewd references and compares his microphone to his penis, we're not sure we entirely agree with the Express' assessment. more ›