Top Ten Search List (June 28)
Oh, bloody hell! When HE comes, all the judges cannot stay calm!
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Reporter: Oh! She’s leg is so long!
Beautiful girl, beautiful girl!
Host: Thanks to Xiaocan. Where are you from?
Xiaocan: Hello, I come from Zhengzhou, Henan province. (Male’s voice)
Host: Oh, bloody hell!
Reporter: You must be kidding!
Host: Are you a boy? Or a girl?
Xiaocan: I am a boy.
Host: Really? Bloody hell!
Judge: What can I say? You are beautiful, actually. And, errrr, nothing else.
Here's the top ten real-time search list for today, recorded at 12:30PM.
1. 双面女婴 shuāngmiàn nǚyīng – "Two-Faced Baby Girl," the most-searched item of the mid-afternoon, makes today a questionable day for journalistic integrity. Starting last evening, more and more articles from a wide range of Chinese news sites have been treating the same outdated story (four years outdated, to be exact) as breaking news. Lali Singh, an Indian baby girl who was born in March of 2008 with Diprosopus—a rare congenital disorder by which the face is duplicated on the head—was considered by many in India to be the reincarnation of the Hindu deity Ganesha. She died two months after her birth, of a heart attack. Again, that was 2008. But over the past 24 hours, report after report has been published in the Chinese news media asserting that Lali was born in March of this year, 2012, and that she recently passed away. So everyone is clicking away (great for website traffic…coincidence?) at four year-old images of Lali, as if they are testaments to a new discovery. And no, it isn't as if the Chinese media missed this the first time around; similar reports came out in the actual year of Lali's birth and death. What's more, some articles from yesterday do cite the correct 2008 date of her birth, which only leads to another question: if you know it happened four years ago, why choose to bring it up again now, with nothing new to add? Something is up, but so far no apparent in-depth discussion on the part of netizens about the glaring bizarreness. Here's the story (again, from another source!) in Chinese.
2. 流动卖淫车 liúdòng màiyín chē – "Traveling Prostitution Salesman": At 10 PM this past Monday during an investigation of an illegal sex "shop" in Hangzhou, police discovered that though negotiations with clients went down on the premises, prostitutes conducted their actual business in a vehicle disguised as a "fire safety equipment inspection" van. Here's the story in Chinese.
3. nexus q – The Nexus Q, the new media-streaming entertainment device in the the Google Nexus product family, is making its way into everybody's search boxes today after its presentation at the Google I/O Conference. Points of discussion in Chinese articles range from the fact that Google wants this product line to spark the revival of "Made in America" products (the bottom of the device is inscribed with the words "Designed and Manufactured in the U.S.A") to the question of why the spherical media player, priced at 299 USD, is as pricey as it is. Here's the story in Chinese.
4. 西班牙vs葡萄牙点球 Xībānyá vs Pútáoyá diǎnqiú – "Spain vs. Portugal Penalty Kick": Much discussion of Cristiano Ronaldo—dubbed "C-luó" (short for "C-luónàěrduō" (C·罗纳尔多)) by fans—and Xabi Alonso right now, after Spain's penalty kick win over Portugal after a total of 120 scoreless minutes. Here's the story in Chinese.
5. 林郑月娥 Lín Zhèngyuè'é – Hong Kong politician Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor, currently in charge of land policy, will be promoted to chief secretary, the second-highest ranking position in the city's government. Here's the story in Chinese.
6. 释永修 Shì Yǒngxiū – Famous Yunnanese Buddhist monk Shi Yongxiu, who was murdered to years ago at the age of 63, left a hefty legacy behind him amounting to 4.74 million RMB. Now, two years later, his daughter (from his family life prior to his 1979 entry into the monastery) is in an intense legal dispute with the monks of the Hongta district temple where he served as head abbot, over who gets to inherit the money. The monks hold that as no monk may have any possessions to his name, the money belongs to the temple. The daughter holds that Shi's property belonged to him as an individual, in spite of his monastic life. The municipal court is mired in debate regarding whether the offspring of a deceased holy man has the right to his estate. Here's the story in Chinese.
7. 朱晓林 Zhū Xiǎolín – Yesterday Forbes China published its 2012 CEO salary list, declaring Zhu Xiaolin, CEO of mining company China Polymetallic Mining Limited, as the "winner" with a yearly salary of 2.35 billion RMB. The list also shows that CEO's of A-shares private enterprises traded on the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges are not getting paid as highly as CEO's of state-owned enterprises. Here's the story in Chinese.
8. 教师边打学生边自夸 jiàoshī biān dǎ xuésheng biān zìkuā – "Teacher Hits Student with One Hand; Toots Own Horn with the Other": On June 11th, a 16 year-old Chongqing high school student put up a post on a BBS forum which read, "I was beaten by my teacher, it was traumatizing." After the post got 13,000 hits, reporters tracked down the student, who disclosed that he had been in homeroom joking around with a fellow classmate when his teacher, Mr. Zhong, came over and grabbed him by the neck. He further provoked Zhong, and after class was called into the office. Zhong beat him while apparently simultaneously bragging, "I already have five houses and a car, now beating you is another notch in my belt." The teacher has been duly fired for mistreating a student, as his belt begins to look increasingly notch-less. Meanwhile netizens continue to take the piss out of him for the sick things he chooses to boast about. Here's the story in Chinese.
9. 小米抽奖 Xiǎomǐ chōujiǎng - "Xiaomi Lottery": To celebrate the recent release of Chinese game developer Kingsoft's martial arts-themed MMORPG JX Online II, titled "Yanyun Jiange," Xiaomi (mobile phone developer that was by no coincidence created by Kingsoft CEO Lei Jun) has launched a promotional sweepstakes for give-aways of all kinds of virtual gaming props. Gamers are pumped. Here's the story in Chinese.
10. 贵州记者砍杀前女友事件 Guìzhōu jìzhě kǎnshā qián nǚyǒu shìjiàn – A Guizhou reporter by the name of Yuan Jing has been arrested for the intentional murder of his ex-girlfriend, Zhao Feifei. Here's the story in Chinese.
신민아 (Shin Min Ah), for SI Clothing. What a set!
신민아 (Shin Min Ah), for SI Clothing.
What a set!
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