Top Ten Search List (May 23)

Here's the top 10 real-time search list for today, recorded at 12:50PM.

1. 女童下体被放芸豆 nǚtóng xiàtǐ bèi fàng yúndòu – Recently in Yangpu district, Shanghai, a female kindergarten teacher utilized a very twisted form of punishment when she inserted a kidney bean into the nether regions of one of her female students. The teacher, at the school for only a semester, had come across to colleagues as an otherwise good-natured and mild-mannered person. The parents of the student, the school administration, the police, and Shanghai's department of education are all in the midst of figuring out how to deal with the surreal incident. Here's the story in Chinese.

2. 女县长被劫持 nǚ xiànzhǎng bèi jiéchí – On the morning of May 21st, a local female government official in Yunhe, Zhejiang province was kidnapped at a city traffic intersection, and rescued by a SWAT team 12 hours later. With the suspect now behind bars, his vengeful motivations for taking her hostage have now come to light: the municipal government is planning to build a public toilet directly across from the front door of his home. Articles are now referring to the incident as "Public Toilet-Induced Kidnapping." Here's the story in Chinese.

3. 少女裸身死于出租屋 shàonǚ luǒshēn sǐyú chūzūwū – In Baiyun district, Guangzhou province, the naked, dead body of a seventeen year-old girl was found yesterday discarded underneath the bed of her rented room. It is suspected that the girl was strangled to death by her killer. Here's the story in Chinese.

4. 溧阳地震 Lìyáng dìzhèn – A 2.5 magnitude earthquake struck Liyang, Jiangsu province yesterday, with tremors felt in Nanjing. Here's the story in Chinese.

5. 中国梅西 Zhōngguó méixī – The Chinese internet, home to countless adoring fans of Argentine footballer (or soccer player) Lionel Messi, is now exploding with news of "China's own Messi": a boy-wonder soccer prodigy from Qingdao whose brilliant footwork has caught the eye of the Chinese news media. The 12 year-old boy apparently "first touched" a soccer ball when he was 10, and is already tearing it up on the field. Here's the story in Chinese.

6. 最美抗癌女孩 zuì měi kàng'ái nǚhái - "The Most Beautiful Cancer Warrior": On May 19th, a Weibo user by the name of "Homework Notebook" posted information about a beautiful girl from Shandong named Lu Ruoqing who is currently battling acute myelogenous leukemia. The user encouraged netizens to post notes of encouragement and love on Lu Ruoqing's Weibo, and soon her fans increased from 200 to 300,000 as more and more netizens visited the page to wish her well. Recently, doubt that Lu was a fictional character began to take root, and then sprouted fully when one reporter disclosed that he had visited Lu's purported hospital, and discovered that no one fitting her description had been accepted for treatment. However, it has now been confirmed that while "Lu Ruoqing" is not the girl's real name, and is rather an alias to protect her from undesired attention, she is indeed a real person, now distraught over mistreatment at the hands of untrusting netizens, and has been admitted to a Beijing hospital for treatment. Here's the story in Chinese.

7. 地沟油检测法 dìgōu yóu jiǎncèfǎ – "Illegal Cooking Oil Detection": As the "gutter oil" (cooking oil made from discarded kitchen waste or other unsanitary, unapproved substances) food-safety crisis rapidly unfolds, China's Department of Sanitation is developing and implementing a range of testing methods for weeding out the toxic demon grease, including ways in which consumers can identify it on the spot. Here's the story in Chinese.

8. 无线被强奸女星 Wúxiàn bèi qiángjiān nǚxīng – 32-year-old Hong Kong musician Lee Ming Ho has been arrested on allegations of rape. The victim, whose identity has been kept anonymous for privacy reasons, is reportedly an actress for Hong Kong television station TVB. Here's the story in Chinese.

9. 潮州爆炸 Cháozhōu bàozhà – Yesterday at around noon in Chaozhou, Guangdong province, a six-wheeler transporting several large canisters of gas exploded at a traffic light at the intersection of Chaofeng Road and Chaozhou Avenue. According to news reports, there were no casualties, and only the driver of the truck, now being treated in the hospital, was injured. The fire was put out by 52 firefighters dispatched in 7 fire trucks, and regular traffic resumed within an hour. A lucky progression of events, all things considered, but there are still no details as to why it happened in the first place—though the municipal government has promised to further educate citizens about the dangers of transporting inflammable chemicals. Here's the story in Chinese.

10. 兄妹隐居深山20余年 xiōngmèi yǐnjū shēnshān 20yú nián – A brother-sister pair in Shandong have spent the past twenty or so years living in complete isolation on a Jinan mountain-top. The sister, the younger of the two, has developed a disease in her hands that, after going on for so long, has deformed them such that they have taken on the shape of bird claws and left her unable to use them. The hermit siblings are now garnering media attention, as they have finally solicited the help of a doctor to diagnose the sister's ailment. Here's the story in Chinese.