For the last couple of days, Twitter has had a run of several tweets about a subsidence tragedy in Liuzhou. I searched for reliable confirmation, but came up with nothing, so I didn’t mention it. Today, the local press finally reported it. It seems that parts of southern Liuzhou prefecture are falling down holes [...]
Random Photograph No. 54 photographs taken in Liuzhou which amuse, perplex or fascinate me. Sumer is icumen in, Lhude sing cuccu! Groweþ sed and bloweþ med And springþ þe wde nu, Sing cuccu! Awe bleteþ after lomb, Lhouþ after calue cu. Bulluc sterteþ, bucke uerteþ, Murie sing cuccu! Cuccu, cuccu, wel singes þu cuccu; Ne [...]
Liuzhou is displaying its new “bendy bus” which it intends to run on its BRT service, when they get round to building the new traffic lane system they proposed back in February. The 18 metre long articulated bus is on display at the northern end of Jiefang South Road (the pedestrian street) in the city [...]
It’s May 1st – International Labour Day, no less. Up the workers and all that. And the world’s largest communist country* celebrates in true socialist style. By giving the middle classes the day off while all the actual working class have to go to work as normal. The street sweepers are still sweeping streets, the [...]
The new underpass at the Guangya Road / Bayi Road crossroads on the north-west corner of Liuzhou Square is very nearly ready to be opened after about a year or so of construction. It should be a welcome relief to traffic in the area. However, I foresee at least one problem. The sign clearly indicates [...]
I’m not a big fan of bars. Especially in China. I am a big fan of proper British pubs. There are none of those in China. Please don’t tell me that there is a British pub in Beijing or Shanghai. There isn’t. There are ersatz pseudo-pubs. A plague on them. Nearly all bars in Liuzhou [...]
A Liuzhou man, named only as Mr Hong, has been arrested on suspicion of illegal access to citizens’ personal information. The self-styled “Mad Detective” started his detection activities as a hobby, using his computer to track personal information and is reported to be obsessed by detective stories. After successfully tracking down a missing debtor and [...]
Not at all put of by their failure to have the place declared a “Civilised City” despite covering the city with propaganda telling people to be er.. civilised, the locals authorities have clearly had a meeting and are now trying to get us to be a healthy city. The way to do this is to [...]
It is impossible to walk around Liuzhou without someone trying to pass off some waste paper on you. I usually decline these offers on the grounds that I am not a waste recycling middleman, despite appearances. I am, of course, talking about the leaflets advertising anything from breast enhancement to new dentures, via the inevitable [...]
When they aren’t busy trying to kill us by turning our drinking water into cadmium soup, adulterating our yoghurt with melamine, recycling rancid cooking oil or just mowing us down on the streets by driving on the sidewalks, the locals have taken to producing poisonous disposable chopsticks. Inspections of three disposable bamboo chopstick “factories” in [...]
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