Top Ten Search List (June 27)
Top Ten Search List (June 27)
Here's the top ten real-time search list for today, recorded at 1:30PM.
1. 陈佩斯之父病逝Chén Pèisī zhī fù bìngshì – Chen Qiang, a famous actor and pioneer of modern China's film industry, passed away last night in Beijing's Anzhen hospital due to complications related to illness. He was 94. His son Chen Peisi, also a famous actor and comedian, had been caring for his father in the hospital. Here's the story in Chinese.
2. 杰克逊旧居鬼魂 Jiékèxùn jiùjū guǐhùn – "Ghosts in MJ's Old House": Michael Jackson's Ghosts are back, this time not brought to us by the imagination of Stephen King. Today, netizen eyes are directing themselves in droves to news of MJ's haunted mansion, as reports come out that on June 25, the anniversary of Mr. Jackson's death, sounds of music and maybe some dancing were heard coming from somewhere inside his former Los Angeles residence. Some Weibo users (eg. "@linsanity7") are now praying that the deceased King of Pop's soul comes to rest posthaste. Here's the story in Chinese.
3. 男女集体裸晒 nánnǚ jítǐ luǒ shài – "Male and Female Nude Sunbathing Collective": Over the past few days, naked people have been gathering together to sunbathe on a dam in Xinghai, Dalian, as passersby and tourists catch peeps and then head for the hills, horrified. With pictures of the nudists posted online attracting more and more attention, reporters visited the site to find out what all of the hullabaloo was about. One reporter noted, aghast, "Several fishermen were on the east bank. On the west bank, bare-bodied swimmers sat, laid on their stomachs, or laid on their backs. Some…even played poker." Apparently, most were middle-aged men, some were younger boys, and none were women (at least when he arrived). Here's the story in Chinese.
4. 公务员陪酒醉死 gōngwùyuán péijiǔ zuì sǐ – "Civil Servant Drinking Partner Drinks Self to Death": On the night of March 15th, Yin Feiyu, director of the Highway Administration Office of Ji'an, Jiangxi died suddenly due to an alcohol overdose resulting from attempts to keep up with a drinking partner. Months later, the Ji'an Highway Administration paid 750,000 RMB to Yin's family in compensation…leading everyone to believe that Yin had been drinking "on the job," at a work-related banquet. The Highway Administration Office has recently come out to deny any such notion, claiming that the money was given to Yin's family members entirely out of "humanitarian concern"…but out there in the online peanut gallery, the people ain't buying it, some making the point that if this was not in fact compensation for a "work-related casualty," Yin's bosses are by default freely handing out money to a government family while other less fortunate "commoner" patriarchs are being told they will just have to die their own banquet-drinking deaths in vain. Here's the story in Chinese.
5. 南大第一美女 Nándà dìyī měinǚ – Nanjing University junior Li Jiannan—winner of the national university table tennis championship and dubbed "Nanjing U's Number One Beauty"—posted an ad for a bodyguard on her Sina Weibo page last night after she noticed "yet another strange man" stalking her, saying she was willing to pay her future protector a six-digit RMB salary. Some netizens are ridiculing her for thinking she is a big enough deal to need an expensive bodyguard, while others are more interested in discussing ways that young women can better protect themselves from harassment on college campuses. Here's the story in Chinese.
6. 一卡通巨额押金 yī kǎtōng jùé yājīn - The Beijing Municipal Administration and Communications Card (北京市政交通一卡通 Běijīng Shìzhèng jiāotōng Yīkǎtōng), known as "Yikatong" (One-card pass), is a store-value contractless smart card that Beijing residents can use for public transportation, purchases at supermarkets, and movie tickets, among other things. As over 180 million of the cards been issued to date, people have started to wonder where the 20 RMB "deposit" for purchasing the card goes, since no one plans on returning their cards any time soon, as there is no reason to. Here's the story in Chinese.
7. 11年前的爱情约定 11 niánqián de àiqíng yuēdìng – "Eleven Year-Old Love Pact": On June 24th, Hunan TV host Xiao Hai wrote on her Weibo that eleven years ago when a young boy and fan of hers wrote to her asking if she would be his girlfriend, she had replied to him, "Once you graduate from Tsinghua or Peking University and make your first million, then we can talk." According to Xiao Hai, eleven years later, the once young boy has now actually done it, and is back to ask for her hand in girlfriendship. After netizens began encouraging Xiao to make good on her promise, she came forward to clarify in interviews that the young man merely wanted to thank Xiao for motivating him, and has not come to "collect." And she has a boyfriend at the moment anyway. Here's the story in Chinese.
8. 女版药家鑫 nǚbǎn yào jiāxīn – "Female Yao Jiaxin Murder Case": In October 2010, a student at the Xi'an Conservatory of Music named Yao Jiaxin stabbed a woman to death after hitting her with his car, because he saw her memorizing his license plate number. Last week, a speeding female driver in Shandong hit a mother and her four year-old daughter on their electric scooter. She did not stop her car, and instead continued on at full speed, hitting other parked cars along the way. A video was later posted on Youku revealing that when medics came to the scene of the accident, the guilty driver stripped all of her clothes off and lied down on the ground, trying to block the ambulance from entering the residential community where she had hit the two victims, and later grabbed the four year-old girl from the medics and dropped her on the ground. The girl ultimately died from the accident, and the mother is in critical condition but will be saved. The female driver is now being referred to as the "girl version" of Yao Jiaxin. Here's the story in Chinese.
9. 城管脚踩商贩 chéngguǎn jiǎocǎi shāngfàn – There seems to be no end in sight for altercations between "chéngguǎn" (urban management officials) and street vendors, with a Weibo post this morning showing pictures of a chengguan in Nanjing stomping on a defenseless watermelon vendor. In the face of netizen anger, the Nanjing Jianye District Xinglong Street Urban Management Department has told reporters, "This law enforcement officer was not a chengguan; the person pictured here is just an assistant to a chengguan, who merely accidentally stepped on the street vendor." An ensuing tidal wave of Weibo posts indicates that most netizens are seeing this as just a bad excuse. The chengguan-bashing continues. Here's the story in Chinese.
10. 王媞Wáng Tí – Wang Ti and Zhu Shuangshuang are the names of two Beijing con women who have been charged with swindling a total of nearly 55 million RMB from 27 Chinese celebrities—including several Olympic champions—in a massive real-estate scam. Here's the story in Chinese.
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