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Get out your pitchforks, it's time to go hunt down a monster! Last week in Xiamen, photos surfaced showing a puppy being thrown into the sea and tenaciously swimming back to shore before being tossed in again by its cold-hearted owner. more ›

Millions and millions of fish have mysteriously dropped dead along Fujian's Minjiang River in recent days. The exact number is not yet known, but the Shuikou and Huangtian townships are home to some 9,000 tanks, each with about 3,500 to 5,000 fish, and all of them are dead now, so do the math yourself. more ›

The municipal leaders in the Fujian city of Xiamen have begun releasing some of their frozen pork reserves (yes, you heard that right) for general sale on August 15th to combat the huge rise in pork prices across China this year, which have averaged over 35 percent. Though the new (and quite literal) stimulus of government pork is being sold at 15 percent below market value, there's a catch: only 5 retailers in Xiamen will be licensed to sell the pork, and each buyer will only be allowed to buy 5kg worth of pork each purchase. Oh, and if you're buying more than 2kg at a time, then you'll need to show some ID. That move to start importing more pork into China can't come fast enough. more ›

"POLICE have freed 22 women forced to become sex workers in a south China city, local authorities said. Six suspects have been arrested. The women were lured by job promises to the city of Xiamen in southeast China's Fujian Province, where the suspects forced them to work in an entertainment parlor as sex workers, police allege. Police raided the parlor in downtown Xiamen on Saturday after being tipped off by two abducted women who fled from a rented house on the outskirts of the city. The women were kept in the house when they were not working. Police said the women they rescued were abducted from other parts of Fujian, as well as Henan, Sichuan and Chongqing. Young rural women, eager for high-paying jobs in the cities, have become easy prey for human traffickers." [Shanghai Daily] more ›

"The commonfolk in Germany have a very hard time accessing the Internet. Not only do they have to jump through hoops to get approval, it's also very expensive. In the West, there is a great focus on ideological mangement, and they go way further than we do in their control of the Internet. Therefore, we can say that our country is very civilised, very democratic, and everybody should feel very fortunate." more ›

A Hunan man has been detained by Taiwanese marine police after he rowed over from Xiamen to Taiwan's Kinmen Island on a makeshift boat put together with several styrofoam boards, using badminton racquets as oars. After spending a good five over hours rowing across the straits, the man looked clearly exhausted as he was intercepted by the police. He says he made the journey with the aim of defecting over to Taiwan and join the Kuomintang. Taiwanese authorities however are unlikely to grant the man asylum and are expected to deport him back to the Chinese mainland. We dread to think what will happen to him when he returns to the embrace of the motherland. more ›

It's a story that causes a reaction of "THIS STILL HAPPENS?!": A woman, eight-months pregant is dragged out of her house and forced to abort the foetus for violating China's one-child policy. more ›

To be wrongly put into an asylum has been a staple of horror fiction, but this nightmare actually happened to a woman in Xiamen. Mrs. Wu, who originally went to her hospital to cure her high blood prolactin (PRL) was identified as "mentally challenged" and forced into an asylum for 22 days, according to Netease. more ›

A photographer in Xiamen has been condemned for lying in wait to get these unfortunate (but, we admit, amusing) pictures of people on bikes hitting a pot-hole submerged in rainwater. According to Ananova, one netizen wrote: "The pictures are well shot, but the person who shot this is disgusting. He knew there was a pit, but was waiting htere for someone to fall over." The photographer defended himself by arguing that without the pictures, the government would have never noticed the pit. (Oof, turns out this whole story is at least four years old. On the bright side, chances are the pot hole has actually been fixed by now! Thanks @apgalbraith for the check.) more ›

When the field tees off at the Dell Championship in Xiamen Thursday, there will be a father-son pair among the field for the first time. Wu Weihuang, 40, will compete against his 17-year-old son Wu Jianlong, a student at Xiamen Sports School who will be playing in his first professional event. more ›

Britain's most tiresome newspaper the Daily Mail has a typically sober and balanced report on a new animal show in Xiamen, Fujian (presumably HaiCang Safari Park). more ›