A 21-year-old man in Tianjin has had his penis cut off after what appears to be a botched circumcision procedure just two weeks before his wedding ceremony. more ›

Starting this August, Singapore Airlines' long-haul budget subsidiary Scoot (now also known by its Mandarin name Ku Hang 酷航 which literally means "Cool Airlines") will launch four nonstop flights a week between Singapore and Tianjin, and by the end of 2012, the low-cost airline will run trips to and from a total of five Chinese cities. more ›

Amazing volleyball rally between Tianjin and Army with 16 switches. more ›

There's a tug-of-war occurring on Weibo today surrounding a post originally forwarded 20,000 times before being deleted by censors. That post has since been re-uploaded by numerous other accounts and is now once again being forwarded en masse. In the post are four pictures showing PLA soldiers occupying a large section of the Tianjin Train Station (including numerous empty seats), along with text arguing that soldiers should serve the people and not be "seat hoggers." more ›

The sight of a BMW Mini police car parked outside a police station in the city of Tianjin has raised eyebrows among residents there. When a journalist from Southern Metropolitan Daily arrived at Binhai District's Tanggu Road police station where the car was parked, her requests for an interview was rebuffed by the duty officer who said he could not reveal his chief's cell phone number, and that "you can say whatever you like about it on the internet." Well, she went back to her office, put up what he said on the paper's Weibo, and the tweet has since been shared close to 4,000 times. more ›

Real Madrid, currently on a two-city tour of China that includes matches against current Chinese Super League leaders Guangzhou Evergrande FC and Tianjin Teda FC, managed to fit time in their busy ball-kicking schedule to play an intense exhibition match against 109 local kids on Monday in Guangzhou. The odd number was chosen to celebrate the 109th anniversary of the preferred club of Franco the Fascist, and it looks like Ronaldo, Kaka, Marcelo and co. had their hands full keeping the randy tykes at bay, narrowly edging the kiddies out in a 2-1 victory. more ›

"A SWIMMING pool in Tianjin Municipality has been closed after a live electric wire snapped and fell into the pool, killing three people and injuring several others. Bohai Swimming Pool executives are being investigated by police after the fatal accident on July 14. Authorities said an electric wire, which was connected to a sunshade above the pool, ruptured and fell into the water due to strong wind. Some witnesses said at least six people, including a 67-year-old swimming instructor, were injured and hospitalized. Authorities declined to reveal details before they completed their investigation." [Shanghai Daily] more ›

The second bombing of its kind in as many weeks, a man surnamed Liu has been arrested for bombing a government building in Tianjin yesterday. The explosion occurred around 10am and injured two people. The man has allegedly claimed the attack was a "revenge against society." It's not clear at this time what his specific grievances were, and the search results for "Tianjing bombings" (天津爆炸案) have already been censored from Sina Weibo. more ›

Start off your week with something we all enjoy watching: colossal failure. Watch this dude walk into a Tianjin bank, don a face mask, then proceed to slowly bash a hole through the bulletproof glass with a hatchet. By the time he's finished, the bank employees have fled and the cops have arrived. We like one netizen's description translated by MoT: “the coolest robber, the crappiest strategy, the most audacious mind and the most miserable ending.” more ›

These pictures of what's on Tianjin's drawing board shows its future looking noticeably brighter and greener in under a decade's time. Surbana Urban Planning Group has whipped up a 30-sq km Eco City filled with cutting edge green technologies designed to put Tianjin at the forefront of eco friendly urban development. more ›

Back in 2007 Shanghaiist's Hélène survived the Great Wall Marathon. Following in her footsteps, we decided to give it a try. But we decided that running 21 k (the half marathon) was plenty exercise for us on a Saturday morning. more ›

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On Sept 26, in Tianjin at the World Economic Forum, EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson drank a glass of milk (click to see video) in front of the media to show his support for the Chinese dairy industry and said:

The Europeans will continue to expect the highest standards, just as Chinese consumers are demanding the same…. But in the meantime I shall continue drinking my own favorite, er, milk, er, product, er, er, which I enjoy and which does not make me nervous.

Wen said he was very moved when he saw in television European Union Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson drinking a cup of Chinese milk on Friday to show his trust in China-made products. “It's because he not only sees the present, but the future as well,” Wen said.

"Over the past few days, Peter Mandelson has been experiencing some kidney pain," a spokesman said. more ›

In February we marveled when doctors in Urumqi removed a parasitic twin from the belly of this baby girl. The rare abnormality has occurred again, this time with an infant in Henan province. The fetus in fetu was discovered after the boy was born with an extra penis on his back, which was removed in a three-hour procedure on June 6. While the case was the first of its type at the Tianjin Childrens’ Hospital, doctors say that are not more than 100 cases of parasitic twins in the world, with ten of them in China. If all goes well, the child can be discharged in 10-12 days. more ›

Chen Liangyu (陈良宇), the former Mayor of Shanghai and member of China's Politburo, was sentenced to 18 years in prison after being found guilty on taking bribes and abusing power. During the course of the trial in Tianjin, it was revealed that amount of money stolen of Shanghai's pension fund, $480 million USD was 10 times worse than initially believed, somewhere in the neighborhood of 33.9 billion RMB ($4.8 billion USD). more ›