It’s a Wrap for the Chinese Film Adaptations of Onmyōji Featuring Mark Chao and Deng Lun

Happy Thursday everyone! Here’s a little something to spice up your day especially now that all the days have been passing by like a blur whilst staying home. I had to actually check the calendar to confirm that today is Thursday since we've been on lock down for so long now. Anyway before I digress...

Guangzhou tests all students before return to classes

Third-grade students, teachers and logistics personnel at junior and senior high schools in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, are tested on campus for coronavirus before they resume classwork on Monday. Students will form lines, spacing themselves 1.5 metres apart, at school gates and provide basic information about their living situation before being tested. Testing for the students, teachers, logistics...

Man becomes online celebrity in China for quarantine videos

During the quarantined days of the novel coronavirus epidemic, a young man from rural Henan province became an online celebrity by producing online videos of ordinary activities. He got the attention of more than 6 million people. Li Hua, 26, a native of Xiangcheng county, Henan province, recorded his family's daily life in short videos, mostly...

3 negatives and a positive: Problems with coronavirus tests in China

Trader He Ximing in the Chinese city of Wuhan says he has no idea how or where he caught the coronavirus or why repeated nucleic acid tests showed he didn't have it. He was not a coronavirus patient, doctors told him, even though he had been having difficulty breathing with what he described as smothering chest...

Grace Chow Calls Out Show Luo’s Infidelity as Reason for Break Up

After weeks of speculation, Grace Chow (周扬青) has admitted to the break up with Show Luo (羅志祥). The break up rumors first started around March 10 when netizens noticed Show Luo and Grace Chow hadn’t interacted with each other since January 23. When asked about it, Show Luo’s manager had the usual response, “We won’t...

Guan Xiaotong Greets BF Luhan as He Celebrates Turning 30, He Also Gets a Surprise from David Beckham

Happy Happy birthday Luhan! Today is a special day as April 20th marks the date the idol singer finally joins the 30s club! Of course his girlfriend Guan Xiaotong made sure to be one of the very first to greet him on social media, sharing a midnight shout out with snap of him about to dig into a fiery...

Did Qu Chuxiao Just Break Up with Rumored GF After Being Spotted by Paparazzi?

Okay I’m pretty confused by this bit of news. Are they or aren’t they? Dating that is. Actor Qu Chuxiao who shot to fame after the megahit blockbuster The Wandering Earth was recently papped travelling in the capital with iPartment 5 actress Wan Zilin. They were riding on a motorcycle together. Now if there’s anything that will set tongues wagging overtime, it’s...

‘We are not the culprit’: Beijing tells US to stop blaming China for coronavirus pandemic

China on Monday called on the United States to stop blaming it for the coronavirus pandemic, saying it was "also a victim", as international pressure mounts on Beijing over its handling of the crisis. Foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said the global community should work together instead of casting blame or demanding compensation. "The international community can...

Project on coronavirus in Wuhan shows faces behind the masks

While they were busy treating Covid-19 patients in Wuhan, their faces were hardly recognizable under surgical masks and goggles. In order to have a record of all the 42,000-plus medical workers who risked their lives to come to the aid of Hubei, the region of China hardest hit by the epidemic, a group of volunteer photographers...

Chinese pupils’ unique homework assignment goes viral

Pupils fired up their imaginations for a unique school assignment at home in Wuzhou, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. Since the primary school has not resumed classes because of the coronavirus epidemic, pupils were asked to submit replicas of famous paintings, using themselves as models, to tap their creativity. Their homework went viral online with creative performances and...