Nicknamed “golden producer,” famed Chinese producer Yu Zheng (于正) has always been a straight talker fearless of netizen attacks, and would often lash back at them online. Recently, he slammed yet another netizen over the latter’s criticism of actor Song Weilong (宋威龍). Praises Song Weilong’s Performance Recently, 21-year-old Song Weilong garnered much attention as the male lead of well-received drama Go Ahead <以家人之名>....
About 2.7 million Chinese tourists visited Hubei, the province where Covid-19 first emerged, over the past week, according to state broadcaster CCTV. Images and videos that circulated online included thousands of largely mask-free visitors packed together at a pool party in Wuhan during a music festival that runs until the end of the month. When the park...
Taiwan said on Wednesday hacking groups linked to the Chinese government had attacked at least ten government agencies and some 6,000 email accounts of government officials in an “infiltration” to steal important data. Democratic Taiwan has been urging its people to be alert for what officials call “omnipresent infiltration” from China, involving from Beijing-backed media campaigns to...
A 29-year-old woman gave birth to quadruplets recently in Yichang, Hubei province, according to Beijing Youth Daily. The woman, surnamed Gao, gave birth to the four babies - two pairs of twins - on Aug 12 at a local hospital. Li Hua, the doctor in charge of the obstetrics department of the hospital, said it was the...
A cellphone number that ends with five "eights" was offered 2.25 million yuan (S$445,000) at a court-organised online auction on Sunday, Beijing Daily reported on Monday. The phone number, which begins with "1890" and ends with five "eights", was issued by China Telecom, one of the country's largest telecom operators. It was put up for auction on the Taobao e-commerce platform with a starting price...
In a throwback to the good old days when everyone was pretty heavy handed in their use of Instagram filters *raises hand*, THE9’s Esther Yu Shuxin shared a funny screen capture of a heavily filtered recording of herself versus the original unretouched look. She had shot a promotional video for Dragon TV’s Suning 818 Super Show tonight where THE9...
Although Fan Bingbing (范冰冰) and Li Chen (李晨) have officially split over a year, the famous actress is still pretty hot commodity. Case in point: she’s still getting marriage proposals from men. Recently, a video of a middle-aged man proposing to the 39-year-old beauty went viral online. Source: Google Images The man was seen passionately declaring his love for Fan...
Recently, a challenge has been spreading through Instagram and feeds have been filled with black and white photos of women. The purpose of the challenge is to encourage the empowerment of women and to bring awareness to the oppression women face. Chinese actress Zhao Wei (also known as Vicky Zhao 趙薇) did not participate in this challenge, but rather showed...
When Zhang Yuhuan was exonerated, Song Xiaonu wanted just one thing from her ex-husband – a big hug. Then she wanted to return to her quiet life. Song said she always knew that Zhang was no murderer and should be freed. So his acquittal last Tuesday from the highest court in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangxi...
In recent years, production companies have been producing youth dramas largely to cater to the growing, younger audience. For the most part, many of these series paint a romanticized picture of young adulthood via light-hearted and dreamy stories. Yet, this formula does not always successfully touch the hearts of viewers, win the audience’s support, and...
