Sue Ng

The Beijing Zoo has promised to improve security around its giant panda enclosure after stones were hurled at one of its residents. A video of the incident on Saturday was posted to Weibo, China’s version of Twitter, where it drew more than 100 million views. It shows the panda named Meng Da sitting in the enclosure when a stone appears to bounce next to him and stop close by. The startled panda pauses, and then goes over to examine the object. Visitors are heard asking, “Who threw the stone?” But no one identified the stone thrower. Beijing News reported that a bigger stone struck Meng Da about 30 minutes later. The report quoted the person who shot the video as saying the culprits threw o

Replying to your boss with an emoji is not OK, at least according to a bar manager in central China. He fired an employee last week after she sent "👌" in a reply to him on WeChat, the massively popular Chinese instant messaging app. He had asked her in the team's WeChat chat group to send him some meeting documents, only to be met with the offending emoji. "You should reply to me in text once you receive my message. Don't you know this?" he shot back. "Is this how you acknowledge my message?" Minutes later, he told the employee to to go the human resources department to sort out her resignation. The bar is located in Changsha, the capital of Hunan province. "This is a real case. My resigna