Top Ten Search List (June 25)

Here's the top ten real-time search list for today, recorded at 10:56AM.

1. 巩新亮不穿内衣 Gǒng Xīnliàng bùchuān nèiyī – Chinese actress Gong Xinliang, known for her appearance in hit Chinese movie Feng Xiaogang's "If You Are the One" (非诚勿扰), is now also known for a recent braless walk down the red carpet. At the closing ceremony of the15th Shanghai International Film Festival last week, Gong showed up in a white dress which accidentally exposed her right breast to cameras. Here's the story in Chinese.

2. 云南地震 Yúnnán dìzhèn – Yesterday at 11:30PM, a magnitude 5.7 earthquake hit the border of Sichuan and Yunnan. 3 residents of Ninglang, Yunnan were killed, 20 have been seriously injured, and 82 others have been reported wounded. Here's the story in Chinese.

3. 遗传性性吸引 yíchuán xìngxìng xīyǐn – News from the Daily Mail of Mistie Atkinson has made it to China. Mistie, the 32 year-old woman who recently made a sex tape with her son in a California motel room upon reuniting with him after 15 years of separation, claims that the act did not count as incest, as there is such a thing as "genetic sexual attraction" between family members who come together again after long periods of separation. (Her line of defense failed to clear her name and she has been sentenced to four years and eight months in prison). Search volume is high today for "Genetic Sexual Attraction." Here's the story in Chinese.

4. 周董华仔结仇 Zhōu Dǒng Huá Zǐ jié chóu – Taiwanese talkshow host Jacky Wu has been talking smack about Taiwanese singer Jay Chou and Hong Kong Cantopop singer Andy Lau, exposing and thus further exacerbating what is apparently a long-standing tension between the two. While hosting an episode of the Taiwanese variety show "Power Sunday," Wu, known for his big mouth, let slip that just when Chou's career was first taking off, he wrote songs for Lau which Lau immediately rejected, ridiculing Chou's lyrics to his face. Here's the story in Chinese.

5. 上海地铁二运Shànghǎi dìtiě èryùn – On June 20th, the operating company of Shanghai's underground subway system tweeted a post on one of its official Weibo pages that has subsequently provoked the anger of scores of netizens. The Shanghai Metro posted a picture of a scantily clad woman waiting for the subway and wrote, "Boarding the train dressed like this, how could you not end up getting harassed?" and warned female passengers to cover up, lest they incur the wrath of the subway's countless male predators. Netizens are outraged by the post, many asserting that the way a woman dresses is her own choice, and that the Shanghai Metro is merely shirking its responsibility to protect passengers by placing blame on the victims. One user commented, "If women in revealing outfits are asking for harassment, why doesn't every man at the local swimming pool turn into Mr. Grabbyhands?" Here's the story in Chinese.

6.丁雅琦Dīng Yǎqí – Ding Yaqi, a female high school student from Wuhu, Anhui province, is now famous nationwide for her Gaokao results (the gāokǎo = China's national standardized college entrance examination), after obtaining the number one score in science in all of Anhui province. As Ding, who has chosen to matriculate at Tsinghua University, modestly basks in the glory of her success, reporters ask her about her study methods and her proficiency as an electric keyboard player. Raised in a single-parent home, articles say, she has had to "grow up fast." Here's the story in Chinese.

7. 8个月女婴家中被剁双手8 gè yuè nǚyīng jiāzhōng bèi duò shuāngshǒu – This past weekend in Jinan, Shandong, a grandmother chopped off the hands of her eight-month old baby granddaughter, also injuring her self in the process. The baby girl's parents both work during the day, and left her in the care of her grandmother. It is still unclear how this happened, and both baby and grandma are still in the hospital. Here's the story in Chinese.

8. 勺子点球sháozi diǎnqiú – "Spoon Penalty": Andrea Pirlo's penalty to help take Italy to the win over England in the Euro 2012 quarter-final has everyone searching for "Spoon"—a reference to Pirlo's nonchalant chip and effortless goal, putting the pressure on England's Ashley Young,who was next up in the shoot-out. Here's the story in Chinese.

9. 中国超速最高纪录 Zhōngguó chāosù zuìgāo jìlù – Two twenty-somethings driving through Zhejiang broke the Ningbo high-speed record before being pulled over for driving at the speed of airplanes just before take-off. One young man, in a white Mercedes-Benz SLS, was going 235 km/hr, while the other, in an Aston Martin, was going 258 km/hr. They were apparently racing each other. Here's the story in Chinese.

10. 章子怡恋上孙宝奇 Zhāng Zǐyí liànshàng Sūn Bǎoqí – Rumors have begun to circulate that the new object of Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi's affection is widely beloved Chinese male singer Sun Baoqi. Here's the story in Chinese.