China

  • China locks up gang of pregnant shoplifters [Big Belly Gang]

    A gang of pregnant thieves dubbed the “Big Belly Gang” and that has been in action for more than ten years found themselves behind bars yesterday at the end of a month-long police operation. The 47 members were believed to be behind most of the 3,000 cases of shoplifting...
  • Hundreds of dogs saved from slaughter in China.

    A truck possibly carrying over 500 dogs was immobilized by an animal rights activist in eastern Bejing. The man swerved his car to stop the truck, then microblogged his actions to call in other activists. Animal rights activists and pet lovers have recently begun to hamper the theft of...
  • Chinese gastronomists hope to test world’s appetite for pee eggs

    Local chefs in Dongyang, Zhejiang province (in eastern China) have a two-thousand-year-old delicacy that they are hoping to take further afield: eggs boiled in the urine of little boys. If you want to try to recreate your own Dongyang urine egg experience, the recipe is really quite simple. All...
  • Man Pays Mob to Destroy His Lamborghini

    Picture this… you buy a brand new car and a month later the engine goes. What do you do? Bring it back to the dealer, right? That’s exactly what one millionaire entrepreneur in China did, after his brand new Lamborghini Gallardo broke down just after it was in for...
  • Triple suns photographed over China!

    In what had to have been a spectacular display of astronomical proportions, photos and video of not one, not two, but three suns over Suichuan County in China. The phenomenon is obviously an optical illusion due to the refraction of the sun either onto the clouds or ocean, from...
  • Chinese man felled by three-day game-a-thon

    A Chinese gamer is reported to have died after embarking on a a three-day gaming marathon at an Internet cafe, during which time he went without sleep, and consumed very little food or water. Details are scant but it appears that the man, who has not been identified) was...
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    China’s ‘Top Gun’ gaffe

    State-sponsored China Central Television recently ran a clip of the country’s newest J-10 fighter engaging in mock combat maneuvers.  Evidently at a loss for things to blow up, the clip features an air-to-air missile taking down enemy aircraft from the 1986 film Top Gun. Although China has not admitted...
  • Man turns himself in after brother gets life for toll evasion

    The limits of brotherly loyalty were tested in in China this week when a man was sentenced to life in prison for a crime that it seems he did not commit. In most countries you have to commit some sort of heinous, unspeakable act – in China you can...
  • Balancing pig, a two-legged model of porcine determination [video]

    The owner of the pig that you see in the image to your left calls her Zhu Janqiang (strong-willed) – a look at the video below explains why. Had Wang Xihai let nature take its course with his little piglet, her missing hind legs might have been a death...