Results tagged “women”

Now that the Qingdao Beer Festival is over, we've been looking for other places to go to satisfy our wanderlust. We'd love to visit some tourist sites, maybe a beach or two, but what we're really looking for is a scenic, historic city filled with culture, nightlife, and of course, beautiful women. Lucky for us, ChinaHush has a translated list from Netease of the top 10 cities in China for beautiful women.

Shanghai females are fretting over the financial crisis, according to China Daily. Over 1000 women responded to a survey conducted jointly by the Shanghai Labor Union and the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, the majority of which (over 90%!) said they had been worried in the past three months because of the crisis. 53% felt insecure about their job and 27.9% believed it'd be hard to find another job if they were laid off. Women workers in the electronics (80.3%), garment (71.9%) and food (52.3%) industries worried the most. To cope with tighter wallets, most were putting off plans to have children and many were spending less on shopping and taking public transit rather than taxis.

That's what the Washington Post reported. Laura Ling and Euna Lee, the two jailed American journalists, were working on a story about the trafficking of North Korean women in the border area of China and North Korea when they were detained. As you've no doubt heard, the two journalists have been sentenced to 12 years in a N. Korean labor camp, while people and governments around the world try their best to secure their release.

Eve Ensler's celebrated play—The Vagina Monologues —is coming to Shanghai. First produced in 1996 and first performed on off-Broadway's Westside Theater and London's West End, the play went on to become a global phenomenon. Each monologue is one woman's story, relating the vagina to sex, love, rape, menstruation, birth and other themes and issues in her life. Translated into at least 45 languages and staged in 120 countries to date, the play is performed as a benefit production around the world as a way to raise money for V-Day, an organization and movement that Ensler founded to help end violence against women.

Chinese customs dictate that a woman who's just given birth spend about a month after delivery inside, in bed, without any form of stress (including eating cold foods). Usually, they have a specific type of ayi to help with zuo yuezi, called a yuesao. Now, according to City Weekend, expat women can partake in the tradition too! For RMB3,000 to 5,000 a month, your yuesao will help you with newborn care and make sure you follow Chinese traditions to a tee. While we're trying to remain open minded to the option, the only way we would possibly want to stay indoors for a month post-partum is if every day and every night included a nice stiff drink.

Screenshot was taken from People's Daily online, in an article about a Guizhou tourism official who caught the attention of netizens for being so beautiful. From the picture, it seems that nationalistic fervor in China was a little more amorous than we thought.

Yesterday, a newborn baby girl was discovered by a Paralympics spectator in the restrooms of Beijing's Bird's Nest. The mother, who seemed to have given birth in the bathrooms was not to be found. The baby was taken to hospital and declared to be in good health.

Watch out ladies, Chinese men are on the prowl. According to this article in Mop, one Chinese man set out to settle a score against Western men, by staking out Western women visiting Beijing during the Olympics. The man in question is from a small town in the middle of nowhere, the kind of place where "in 20 years only one student made it into Tsinghua or Peking University." He managed to test into a technical college and now works in Beijing. His friend relates the story and the motive [in translation],

Shanghaiist's sports editor, and founding editor of ChinaSportsToday.com, Maggie Rauch, speaks to Sufei of Sexy Beijing about tennis star Zheng Jie and gender testing. Part 1 of the series can be found here.

Benjamin Boukpeti: Picked up the first medal for Togo bronze in the men’s slalom kayak event but the French-born sportsman has only been to Togo once as a child to visit his paternal grandmother! According to Reuters, Boukpeti "only decided to compete for Togo when it became clear he was too old to make it into the far more competitive French team".