HRIC: Improvement in China's human rights situation will create win-win in Sino-American relations
Click the "CC" button to see English captions.
Watch: Korean baby belly dancer!
That little belly dancing skirt stretched around her diaper is just too adorable/bizarre.
Shit laowais say in Shanghai
Yes, yes, we know everyone's tired of the meme already. But Shanghai laowais have finally made their own contribution to the meme and we thought it was a pretty good effort!
7.4kg boy heaviest baby in China's history
A 7.4kg (15.5lb) boy born to a 29-year-old woman in Xinxiang, Henan province is now officially the heaviest baby in the history of China. Both mom and child are fine. The world record for heaviest baby was a 10.8kg baby born in Ohio in 1879.
Watch: Funny parody of racist Pete Hoekstra ad
Rep. Pete Hoekstra's creepy, racist Superbowl ad was just asking to be spoofed. And now, Funny Or Die has come up with the first of what we think will be many parodies.
Chinese women ready to fight for Olympic Boxing gold
China's national women's boxing team may have only been formed in 2010, but they're already aiming for Olympic gold. Huey Fern Tay of Australia Network News reports.
Watch: Creepy, racist Superbowl ad by Rep. Peter Hoekstra
Republican Peter Hoekstra who's campaigning for a seat in the US Senate in Michigan has run a creepy, racist Super Bowl ad against his Democratic challenger Debbie Stabenow to insinuate that she's actually working to help the Chinese:
Watch: (Supposedly) mainland Chinese guy takes dump on the streets of Hong Kong
In this recently uploaded, and soon-to-be viral Youtube video, a (purported) mainland Chinese man takes a dump in full view of everyone on a busy shopping avenue in Hong Kong. After he's done, he stands there like a boss with his pants still down as he waits for his companion to bring him some proper asswipes. Lovely. Just the sort of thing we need now to lay the HK vs Mainland controversy to rest.
Listen: Take On Me by A-ha performed by young North Korean accordion players
A group of young accordion players from Pyongyang's Kum Song School perform Take On Me by A-ha as part of a multi-genre project that opens next week at Barents Spektakel, an arts festival in Norway. Seriously, now. What would the Dear Leader think as he looks down on this from wherever he is now in socialist paradise?
Listen: Oh, China! Slow down!
English translation with thanks to China Digital Times. Click the "CC" button if you do not see the captions.
Angry Hong Kongers hit the streets to sing "anti-locust" song to mainland tourists
We thought this was a joke but apparently it's dead serious. An "anti-locust choir" comprising of members of the Hong Kong Golden Forum (now apparently hacked and inaccessible) has been hitting the streets of Hong Kong and serenading tourists from the mainland with "Locust World", a new anti-mainlander song that has been going viral in the city.
Listen: "Locust World", mean anti-mainlander song circulating in Hong Kong
Yesterday, we saw a full-page advertisement in Apple Daily Hong Kong that has raised tensions between Hong Kongers and mainlanders to a fever pitch. The truth is, "anti-locust" sentiment had been simmering below the surface for a long while in the city, way before the recent Dolce & Gabbanna protests and the Kong Qingdong hoopla. The swarming, migratory insect has been used as a label for the people from the mainland that have come to crowd the streets of Hong Kong and are perceived to deplete the scarce resources of the city, leaving poorer locals to fall through the cracks. Last year, the above song "Locust World" went viral in Hong Kong as its lyrics struck a chord with what locals felt they've had to put up with in the onslaught of a "mainland invasion". It's now available with English subtitles thanks to Youtuber iloathelilyallen.
Watch: Baby pandas in action
Twelve six-month-old panda cubs enthrall visitors at the Chengdu Giant Panda Research Base in Sichuan Province.
Lee Hsien Loong: United States a good example for China to emulate as it becomes superpower
CNN's Fareed Zakaria asks Singapore prime minister Lee Hsien Loong a few questions about China in a recent interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Video and transcript after the jump...
Inside a Chinese Communist Party school
Al-Jazeera's Melissa Chan gives us a fascinating glimpse of student life at a Chinese Communist Party school.
Newt Gingrich: I'd like to have an American on the moon before the Chinese get there
Two interesting soundbytes from US presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich from the GOP debate in Florida Thursday night:
Watch: UK Prime Minister David Cameron's Chinese New Year message
Transcript after the jump...
Watch: Warren Buffett on CCTV's spring festival gala playing the ukulele
And here it finally is -- the video that Warren Buffett sent in to CCTV to be played at the spring festival gala -- in all its 45-second glory! To send his new year's greetings to 1.3 billion Chinese, the Berkshire Hathaway chairman strummed on his ukulele and sang "I've Been Working on the Railroad" in front of a room-sized model railroad.
personals
Enter our FREE personals site!send a tip
tips@shanghaiist.comabout
advertising / arts/entertainment / calendar / contact / contribute / facebook / food/drink / jobs / mobile / news / other / personals / photos / popular / RSS / staff / twitter / videos write for us / weibosubscribe
Use an RSS reader to stay up to date with the latest news and posts from Chicagoist.