In Sibu, Sarawak, they don’t just burn paper money for Hungry Ghost Festival. They build a ship. This week at Fong Hwang San Ur Par Wang Kong Temple (凤凰山二霸王公庙), a 68-foot bamboo-and-paper vessel was set alight. Temple members spent weeks assembling it by hand — bamboo frame, paper skin, no metal. Then they burned it at night so the dead could sail. The meaning is local and specific. Early Chinese settlers left Fujian and Guangdong, built a life on the Rajang, and never went home. When they died, their descendants burned a junk so those souls could still make the crossing. The same fire also feeds the “good brothers” — wandering ghosts with no one left to offer them anything. After the ship goes, people rush the altar and grab the food. That’s 抢孤 — taking the blessing home. This is not a tourism board reenactment. It’s a Foochow/Hokkien custom that crossed the South China Sea and stayed. One temple in Sibu still does the full ship. That is how diaspora culture actually survives: not as a museum label, but as weeks of unpaid labour and a night of fire. Also for the overseas diaspora: 中元节在砂拉越诗巫：凤凰山二霸王公庙烧了一艘近70尺的竹纸冥船。早期南来的祖先回不了唐山，后人就扎船、烧船，送他们过海。顺便超度没人祭的好兄弟。烧完抢孤。这才是活着的民间信仰，不是宣传片。 #HungryGhostFestival# #中元节# #Sibu# #Sarawak# #诗巫# #大翻译运动#

China-Nepal Border Mudslide, the Golden 72 Hours, Two Different Rescue Progresses in the Same Disaster Calculated from 10:30 on August 26 to 10:30 on August 29, exactly 72 hours. 🇨🇳 Chinese Side: Rescue forces did not enter the core area until the 3rd day, and the officially reported number of people rescued at the border crossing remains 2. 🇳🇵 Nepalese Side: Helicopter airlifts began on the day the disaster struck, rescue numbers continue to rise, and within 72 hours, 2,301 people have been reported rescued, with over 600 bodies found. Xinhua News Agency also released a direct report titled "The 72 Hours After the Disaster." The question arises: The same 72 hours, one side has "rescue forces finally entering the core area," while the other has been continuously conducting airlifts, searches, and recoveries. Of course, the disaster situations, terrain, and number of missing persons on both sides are not entirely the same, so we cannot simply use the two numbers to rank efficiency directly. The size of the rescue force and the sophistication of the equipment ultimately come down to the simplest metric: People—how many have been saved? The 72 hours are not just a timeline for news reporting. For those trapped in the rubble, it may be the dividing line between life and death. Source: @thecitylion (This account has great information and good curated content)

A shopkeeper in mainland China sees an old man being half-carried toward his door by an old woman. He doesn’t hesitate. He slams the shutter down and locks it. The couple is left standing outside, looking confused. The owner pretends no one is home. This is not a prank video. This is the new customer-service protocol, one week after the Qidong incident. On 17 August in Qidong, Hunan, an elderly man walked into a mahjong parlor, sat down, and collapsed. The owner helped him, called an ambulance, and stayed with him until paramedics arrived. He died of pre-existing illnesses. The family then demanded 100,000 yuan and threatened to dump the body at the shop if they weren’t paid. After two rounds of police mediation the owner handed over 19,000 yuan labeled “humanitarian compensation.” The shop closed. Officials later ruled the owner had zero legal liability and the money was returned. The lesson had already gone viral. Netizens immediately nicknamed approaching elderly people “walking 19,000 yuan.” One comment under the lock-the-door video: “He’s got a QR code hanging around his neck. He’s here to collect.” This is what “尊老爱幼” looks like on the ground in 2026. The state still prints the slogan. Shopkeepers now treat it as a liability warning.

Important news: State media has stated that there are 7 confirmed casualties in the recent mudslide. With 554 missing. Maybe they are expecting responses for the missing people.

This is disaster response as political theater. Every major flood or quake produces the same footage: rescue teams moving in identical formations, the same boxed-lunch shots taken in waist-deep water or on debris no one would reasonably stop to eat on. The SOP is so standardized it no longer looks like emergency work. It looks like a drill that happens to be filmed. The most effective part of the performance is not the rescue. It is that many people will watch these images and feel genuine pride that the government put on such a professional show.

5,000 years of civilization arrives at Jungfrau. There is already a line for the Swiss flag. Two Chinese dama (aunties) walk past it. When people object, one of them explains the moral system: she is older, therefore she cuts. Not cutting would be the real disgrace. “This is China’s glorious tradition — respect the old.”

Satire: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China: Solemn Protest Letter to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Nepal Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Nepal: Since the flood disaster at the Jiulong Port, Nepal has issued eight consecutive notifications, continuously updating the numbers of deaths, missing persons, and rescues, and publicly disclosing the progress of rescue operations to society. This timely, continuous, and transparent information release starkly highlights the slow updates and limited content in China's notifications, creating immense public opinion pressure on relevant Chinese departments. China expresses strong dissatisfaction and firm opposition to this. Nepal is well aware that China currently only announces "7 deaths and 554 missing" on the Tibet side, yet it continues to update its own casualty and search-and-rescue data, leading some members of the public to raise inappropriate questions such as "Why can Nepal disclose this publicly, but China cannot?" This practice of responding to public concerns with facts has hurt the unspoken sentiments between the relevant departments of the two countries and has undermined the regional norm of information ambiguity and consistent messaging. China urges Nepal to: 1. Immediately cease frequent updates to casualty figures; 2. Refrain from unilaterally disclosing numbers of rescues, missing persons, and rescue personnel; 3. When involving disaster situations along the China-Nepal border, fully consider the pace of China's notifications; 4. Emphasize more on leadership attention, orderly rescues, and stable public sentiment, and less on specific figures. Disasters will eventually pass, but the consequences left by numbers are extremely serious. We hope Nepal will, from the overall perspective of bilateral relations, exercise a bit less public transparency and a bit more sense of the big picture, and avoid letting factual information harm the feelings of the peoples of the two countries. Otherwise, China reserves the right to express further solemn concerns. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China August 29, 2026 #Tibet# #Nepal# #DebrisFlow# #Flood# #ChinaNepalBorder# #Rescue#

JLPT can be "guaranteed to pass" again! Cheating has reached this level now. One method is to detach the Apple Watch face and hide it on your body, then sneak a peek at the answers during the exam when the proctors aren't paying attention. It costs 20,000 RMB. Another method is to stuff a bone-conduction earpiece as small as a pinhole into your ear; the person outside doesn't directly read out the answers but tells you which option to pick based on the number of taps or vibrations. It costs 30,000 RMB. These people are actually bold enough to openly promote this on Xiaohongshu??? They really don't care at all if people in Japan see it, huh. Do they just assume that immigration, JLPT officials, and those folks don't check Chinese SNS at all? 😅 Plus, JLPT has been cracking down more and more strictly since a few years ago. All I can say is, there's a policy from above, and countermeasures from below! The funny part is, they're willing to shell out 20,000 or 30,000 RMB, but won't buckle down and honestly learn Japanese. No one can stop the Chinese from "making money"!

The Imperial Inspection Tour of Gyirong. Feng shui master has already taken one look. Break ground immediately. Struggle against Heaven! Struggle against Earth! —— Great Qing Empire Scientific rescue. Scientific disaster relief. The masses’ emotions are stable. Li Gonggong is personally on site directing and deploying. —— CCTV

BREAKING NEWS: We just released our third NDIS video investigation, exposing a taxpayer funded $15 million West Sydney business empire which employs open jihadist extremists as disability support workers. @PeteZogoulas and I spent 7 months investigating Mona Salem's Hope and Care business. Salem faced a compulsory court debt examination in 2018 for tens of thousands of dollars in unpaid debts to contractors. Now, just a few short years later, she boasts a $15 million property empire alongside a fleet of luxury cars worth half a million dollars.

We’re The Great Translation Movement 大翻译运动. Since 2022 we’ve been bridging the Great Firewall: translating raw Chinese internet voices — state media, viral comments, official lines, and the gaps between them — so the world can see what actually gets said inside the wall. No filters. No sanitization. Just the source, in languages people outside can read. X is our main feed. Facebook is where we post longer cuts, video, and material that doesn’t always survive the timeline. Follow the page. Share it. Send us raw material if you have it. Facebook: All links: #TheGreatTranslationMovement# #大翻译运动#

This is likely to become one of the most haunting images of 2026. A Chinese university lecturer murdered his Chinese student in Korea, dismembered her, then put on her clothes and left with a suitcase to dispose of the body.

A viral Chinese dance troupe took its act abroad for "Chinese cultural export", only to face a barrage of criticism from Singaporean netizens: "Just hurry back to your own country and stop embarrassing us."

hinese dance troupe from Changsha (弗兰舞团, led by 神童童) put on Nyonya sarong kebaya, then exploded into shouting, high-kick, martial-arts dancing inside Gunkee Claypot in Singapore’s Chinatown — then took it onto the street and across the road. Restaurant: we did not invite them. Personal trip. Sorry to the diners. Singaporeans / Peranakan voices: dancing is fine. Using kebaya — a garment of grace and heritage — as a viral costume while kicking next to people’s food is not. “Don’t let other Chinese people pay the bill for your traffic.”

7 tons of Beagles. Not street dogs. Not stolen pets. Laboratory Beagles. Born into cages. Numbered. Injected. Cut open. Poisoned for science. When the experiments ended, they weren’t retired. They weren’t adopted. They were gutted — organs ripped out, only the heart and kidneys left — then frozen by the ton and sold as dog meat for 12 yuan a jin. In a village in Jiangsu, volunteers found the freezer full of them. The seller didn’t even bother hiding it: “Beagles. Fresh. Killed last week.” Hundreds of dogs that spent their entire lives as living test subjects ended up as cheap meat the moment they were no longer useful. This is how some “scientific tools” are disposed of in China. If a dog can be tortured for research its whole life and still end up on a plate the second it’s no longer needed… what exactly is the value of a life under this system?

Chinese SNS is blabbering that "After the earthquake, Japanese people are fighting over supplies in supermarkets." First, why don't you take a look at some videos of your own people fighting over supplies.