Liao’s Liuzhou Loans
廖荣纳 A storm has been building up over the last few weeks concerning a Liuzhou company. Liuzhou Zhengling Group Company Ltd (柳州正菱集团有限公司), head-quartered in (柳邕路) Liuyong Road, is part of Liuzhou’s...
View ArticleTerror Toys
In their latest display of cunning plans to prevent terrorism and mayhem on the pedestrian street in Liuzhou city centre, local police have bought themselves some very silly new toys. The electric...
View ArticleBeware of Beards
These crude, racist anti-terrorism posters have appeared in town. They show stereotypical images of wild-eyed, bushy-bearded males in the role of the terrorists – as they all surely are. There have...
View ArticleGuangxi Cop Executed
A Guangxi policeman has been executed for shooting and killing a pregnant noodle seller while he was drunk. Hu Ping, formerly of the public security bureau of Pingnan county, shot the woman and her...
View ArticleLiuzhou Calls Interpol
廖荣纳 Way back in early June I wrote about the scandal looming over Liuzhou company, Liuzhou Zhengling Group Company Ltd (柳州正菱集团有限公司) and its chairman, 廖荣纳, allegedly Liuzhou’s richest man and one of...
View ArticleSmugglers and Traffickers
Police across Guangxi are said to be stepping up their anti-smuggling activities. A number of Chinese citizens have recently crossed illegally into Vietnam by land and sea to engage in “smuggling...
View ArticleFish Wars?
At 7 .00 yesterday morning, a Mr Long of Shatang Town just to the north of Liuzhou city headed out to feed the fish on his fish farm, which he has run for twenty years. These are mainly young grass...
View ArticleHandstand Rabbit and Other News
Some of the more bizarre Liuzhou news items from yesterday: a) Handstand Rabbit This rabbit is in Liuzhou’s rancid excuse for a zoo. It is apparently suffering from some congenital disorder, as it...
View ArticleMotorcycle Crackdown
The above was a display which sat for a long time in what is now the lower stretch of Liuzhou city centre’s main pedestrian street (about opposite where the Starbucks is now). Clearly, it is a...
View ArticleCopyright Theft Punished
In an extraordinary move, for the first time ever, Liuzhou Intermediate People’s Court has found for a plaintiff in a copyright theft case. Liang Weibin, an amateur but enthusiastic photographer from...
View ArticleHomophonic Humour
This amused me. A couple of days ago, a man in Matou Village, Liuzhou was tending his bamboo forest when he came across some strangers stealing his bamboo shoots. He wouldn’t have minded, he said, had...
View ArticleLife Bans
According to figures released by Guangxi Public Security Bureau Traffic Police Corps, 169 people have been give life driving bans in Guangxi, ten of which were in Liuzhou. Six cases involved drunk...
View ArticleSex Assault Voyeurism in Liuzhou – Maybe
I have some serious doubts about the veracity of elements of this story supposedly in Liuzhou and reported by Shanghaiist, a site I’ve had accuracy issues with before. According to their report a...
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